Project Quality Assurance Manager (Decommissioning)

Airswift is looking for a Project Quality Assurance Manager to work with one of our major clients in Houston, TX, on an initial 1-year contract (potential to be extended).

Responsibilities:

• Ensure an effective implementation of a quality management system for the facility’s decommissioning project located in GoM, USA is put into place and setup for monitoring

• Project Management Plans, dependent systems and procedures are developed and implemented in compliance with the requirements of the Management System consistent with specific location, regulatory and contractual requirements.

• Personnel are suitably trained in general quality items and project plan requirements and to access and apply dependent systems, procedures and reference materials via the Management System or Knowledge System as applicable.

• All areas of the Project’s execution meet and conform to the management system, regulatory and contractual HSE obligations.

• Effective planning and implementation of design control, verification, validation, and review activities.

• Effectiveness of quality planning to ensure such that process controls and prerequisite product and service verification and inspection arrangements are established and resourced for the project consistent with criticality, statutory and contractual obligations.

• Effective implementation of non-conformance, corrective action, and preventive action management processes.

• Establishment of an effective risk-based assessment program.

• Effectiveness of Project Management and Engineering Review Programs including collection analysis and reporting of project performance measures. • Effective implementation and coordination of vendor assessment and inspection activities.

• Effective implementation and verification of construction inspection and testing activities. • Participate in the quality learning community initiative to enable quality professionals to communicate with each other and receive updates on latest developments.

• Support in-house education, promotion and awareness programs relating to sound quality management practice and the company’s quality strategies.

• Facilitate the implementation of existing and new company processes and capability

• Enhancements across the Project Execution.

• Determine areas of potential improvement and, in consultation with the company’s Global Quality Manager (as applicable) and Management Team, facilitate the implementation of improvements to address these areas.

• Facilitate independent review/certification of Project Quality Management Systems in line with Corporate, legislative or customer requirements.

• Ensure that the contractors quality management requirements and concerns and the needs of multiple stakeholders are being identified and managed by the Project Team effectively.

• Provide assistance to the Project Management Team to recruit and allocate quality practitioners to project verification and inspection roles to ensure these activities are suitably resourced .

• Provide assistance to the Project Management Team to strengthen and coach project quality personnel to support development, management and administration of project quality management systems in response to project and customer expectations.

Education:

• Relevant tertiary qualifications

• Fluent in English

• Background in engineering/decommissioning environment/project delivery environment is a benefit.

• Relevant industry experience, in a Project or general Quality role or closely related fields of HSE and integrity management. (The experience required will vary according to Project scope).

Technical Knowledge:

• Thorough understanding of the principles and practice of Quality Management and the implementation and improvement of management systems.

• MS Office applications Soft Skills:

• Demonstrate behavior and practices consistent with personal, co-worker and community duty of care obligations.

• Team player.

• Multi-cultural cooperation and understanding.

• Communication skills – verbal, written – to report standard and presentation skills.

• Strong coordination skills.

Additional Information: • Occasional travel to the facility in the GOM