About the Role
This role provides the opportunity to lead and promote a strong health, safety, security, and environment (HSSE) culture while ensuring operational excellence within the project lifecycle. By implementing a risk-based Quality Management System, you will maintain project compliance, drive continuous improvement initiatives, and support the development of a quality-focused culture across the organization.
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Primary Objectives / Responsibilities
- Provide strong HSSE leadership and promote a culture of quality, integrity, and operational excellence.
- Develop, implement, and maintain a risk-based Quality Management System aligned with project requirements and industry standards.
- Lead the development, approval, implementation, review, and continuous improvement of the Project Quality Plan and quality procedures.
- Provide independent quality assurance to support project compliance, risk management, and project readiness.
- Ensure quality requirements are integrated across engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover activities.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives and promote a quality-focused culture throughout the project organization.
Specific Accountabilities
- Develop and implement project quality management processes, procedures, and controls.
- Maintain authority over the execution of the Project Quality Plan and compliance with quality requirements.
- Develop and manage risk-based audit, verification, and surveillance programs.
- Review audit findings and ensure timely implementation and close-out of corrective and preventive actions.
- Ensure adequate quality resources are available to support inspection, auditing, verification, and surveillance activities.
- Monitor, measure, and report quality performance, non-conformances, deficiencies, trends, and improvement opportunities.
- Act as the focal point for technical queries related to quality, inspection, and verification activities.
- Ensure timely review, approval, and control of quality documentation and project deliverables.
- Promote consistency in the application of quality standards, procedures, and processes across all project phases.
- Provide input to technical, integrity, risk, and HSSE reviews.
- Manage independent inspection, verification, and quality assurance service providers and associated contracts.
- Establish and oversee risk-based verification and surveillance activities, ensuring findings are tracked to closure.
- Manage non-conformances, including root cause analysis, corrective actions, trend monitoring, and close-out.
- Oversee inspection planning, Inspection & Test Plan (ITP) reviews, inspections, reporting, and close-out activities.
- Provide quality input to project performance reviews, assurance activities, and risk assessments.
- Support the recruitment, competency assessment, mentoring, and development of quality personnel.
Essential Skills and Experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or a related discipline.
- Minimum 20 years of industry experience within Oil & Gas, Energy, Chemicals, or Resources sectors.
- Minimum 15 years of leadership experience in quality management and project delivery environments.
- Demonstrated experience leading quality functions on large and mega projects.
- Extensive experience developing, implementing, and maintaining Quality Management Systems and Project Quality Plans.
- Strong knowledge of quality assurance, quality control, auditing, inspection, verification, and surveillance processes.
- Experience managing EPCM and EPC projects.
- Strong understanding of engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and project execution activities.
- Experience working within multicultural and multinational project environments.
- Excellent leadership, stakeholder management, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- Demonstrated commitment to HSSE leadership and continuous improvement.
- Strong commercial awareness and project delivery understanding.
Benefits
We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace that empowers individuals to drive sustainable change. Our focus is on creating a values-inspired culture that unlocks the potential of every employee. We believe in reskilling our workforce, leveraging transferable skills, and supporting transitions to low carbon energy infrastructure and technology. Whatever your aspirations, there is a path for you here to broaden your horizons and explore diverse opportunities.
