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Overview / Responsibilities:
Wood is currently looking for Procurement Quality Lead to strengthen our team. This is a Home Office position based in Dubai, but it may involve occasional visits to the Client offices and/or site in Iraq.
The Procurement Quality Lead is responsible for driving the implementation of company quality strategies and campaigns across the delivery teams and EPC contractors, focussing on the effective deployment of the project management system, assurance processes and robust quality metrics. Ensuring projects deliver a quality service that achieves the requirements of Operations and complies with the relevant international/national codes and standards.
This position reports directly to the Major Projects Project Manager taking day-to-day direction from the Project Manager and functional direction from the WQ1 Quality Section Head. The role is accountable for providing Quality and inspection resources, systems and processes to support Procurement activities and Projects & Execution Planning activities.
- Promotion of both the WOOD & EMIL Core values
- Develop, maintain & implement Project Quality Plans, Quality Strategies and Objectives
- Provide Quality oversight of vendors and contractors, ensuring they are aware of their roles and responsibilities
- Provide quality estimates for QA/QC project deliverables and inspection of procurement packages
- Regular quality reporting as required
- Ensure the maintenance, documentation, and deployment of the project management system
- Ensure implementation of risk-based audit programmes
- Plan and partake in internal project and vendors/ suppliers audits
- Conduct site quality leadership surveillance visits
- Provide input to contract quality risk registers
- Act as focal point for corrective actions by approving new actions and verifying action closure
- Facilitate root cause analysis of project nonconformities
- Capture client feedback and monitor resulting improvement actions
- Ensure the deployment of a robust criticality assessment process throughout projects
- Verify the inspection level of products/materials
- Quality input to project lessons learned
- Ensure the closure of Quality requirements for project close out
- Review and provide input into technical bid evaluations
- Review and approve necessary construction contractors, vendors and suppliers’ documentation including ITPs and procedures
- Conduct review of project technical queries and specification deviation requests
- Ensure adequate and competent inspection resources are available to the projects
- Establish contract inspection framework
- Assist with evaluation of materials suppliers, manufacturers, fabricators and NDE providers
- Establish appropriate call off arrangements with 3rd party inspection agencies
- Manage and raise vendors inspection requests and maintain inspection assignment register
- Prepare inspection packages for inspectors
- Assign competent, qualified, and appropriately experienced inspectors to inspection assignments
- Coordinate vendors/suppliers’ product/material inspection activities
- Provide support to coordinate fabrication activities
- Review inspection outputs and highlight areas of concern
- Report non-conformances identified by inspectors
- Liaise with Discipline Engineers regarding inspection queries, deficiencies & punch list items
- Facilitate the recall, quarantine and replacement of defective products/materials
- Support the review of vendor mechanical catalogues & manufacturing records books as required
- Ensure upload of inspection reports and releases to document management system
- Regular reporting of inspection status
- Review and approve 3rd party inspection invoices
- Liaise with the Client Quality Representative as appropriate
- Ensure the closure of inspection requirements for project close out
Skills / Qualifications:
Minimum Qualifications:
- Degree in Engineering (Mechanical background is desirable)
- Membership of CQI or country specific Industry body (desirable)
- Quality Auditor Qualification by recognised industry body (essential)
- Welding inspector certification preferably CSWIIP 3.1 or equivalent (desirable)
- NDE Level II qualification (desirable)
Minimum Experience:
- Minimum 10+ years Oil and Gas experience.
- Minimum 5 years in a QA role
- Previous Experience in a Lead or management position
- Middle East experience preferred
- Exposure to ExxonMobil Contracts desirably but not mandatory
Job-Specific Skills:
- Good planning and organisational skills
- Proficient in Microsoft Office
- High level of communication skills in both written and spoken format
- Analytical, Problems Solving skills and Systematic thinking
- Demonstrated ability to work independently with good initiative and interpersonal skills
- Demonstrated ability to successfully interface with key stakeholders
- Ability to work within multi-cultural workforces and environments
Company Overview:
Wood is a global leader in engineering and consultancy across energy and the built environment, helping to unlock solutions to some of the world’s most critical challenges. We provide consulting, projects and operations solutions in more than 60 countries, employing around 40,000 people. www.woodplc.com
Diversity Statement:
We are an equal opportunity employer that recognises the value of a diverse workforce. All suitably qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective criteria and without regard to the following (which is a non-exhaustive list): race, colour, age, religion, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or other characteristics in accordance with the relevant governing laws.
