Geozone Product Line Quality Leader - TRS; Tubular Running Services

Weatherford has a great opportunity for an experienced Geozone Product Line Quality Leader in Tubular Running Services to join the team in Aberdeen, UK. The purpose of the Geozone (GZ) Product Line (PL) Quality Leader role is to be a subject matter expert to the GZ quality team for Tubular Running Services (TRS). The role includes ensuring procedures and work instructions are implemented across R&M and Operations locations and highlighting opportunities to simplify or amend to drive clarity.

When an incident occurs within TRS, the GZ PL Quality Leader will coordinate with other functional resources to participate or lead an investigation, conduct a root cause analysis with cross‑functional support, and close out the investigation. Similarly, the GZ PL Quality Leader will be responsible for reviewing common issues that are driving service disputes and liquidated damages within TRS and drive improvement projects to reduce the cost of poor quality.

This position will report to the Quality function and support the designated product line(s) with their product line expertise, driving quality improvements, reduced NPT, reduced quality incidents and improved margins within TRS.

• Support Global Service Delivery in the distribution of OCPs, PSRP and work instructions; assist in training in collaboration with the PL where necessary.
• Collaborate with Global PL Quality Leaders and Global Service Delivery to highlight OCP, PSRP, work instruction and procedural concerns and areas of simplification as well as opportunities to obsolete documents.
• Drive adherence to Global Product Line processes, OCPs, PSRPs and work instructions.
• Implement prevention‑based quality tools and mindset – Quality as a superordinate value; lead Process Control such SPC, Design of Experiments, Poke‑Yoke to engineer out potential failure modes, reduction of process drift to reduce sources of variation and drive uniformity of process outcomes.
• Ensure CTQs (critical to quality) and CTPs (critical to process) elements are executed.
• Leverage process mapping, cause & effect diagrams, control charts, pareto charts and other analytical tools to help identify and visualize issues in order to communicate and address corrective actions.
• Improve PL quality within the GZ operations including service alerts, bulletins, technical work instructions, operational control plans (OCP), Product & Service Realization Process (PSRP), zero tolerance rules, retrofits, recalls, checklists and dashboards.
• Identify non‑value added process steps and eliminate them in conjunction with quality and product line.
• Drive process and work instruction adherence to reduce variation that can result in escaping defects, NPT, and Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ).
• Oversight of Project Readiness Projects and process.
• Responsible to take a leadership role in GZ to address Root Cause analyses of designated Product line(s) CPARs bringing in necessary support from Engineering, Manufacturing, Supplier Quality, Product Lines, etc. to promote prevention of similar incidences, reduction of NPT and Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ).
• Responsible for communication of PC1/2s as appropriate within the GZ and to the Global PL Quality Product line leader. Responsible to evaluate PC3 Track & Trend and report to GZ Quality Manager on areas of concern.
• Validate and verify effectiveness of PL corrective actions resulting from CPARs.
• Ensure we are capturing Lessons Learned systematically in a dedicated PL database and made available to the organization.
• Analyse Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ) related to the GZ Product Line(s) results monthly; drive improvement actions necessary to achieve or reduced NPT and COPQ reduction targets.
• Provide Work Instruction training (or collaborate to ensure a subject matter expert provides training) where Quality issues have resulted from a lack of work instruction or process adherence.
• As requested by the GZ Quality Manager and Auditor, provide PL SME support for technical audits.
• Ensure TDME (calibration) adherence to requirements. Drive training and improvements where applicable.
• Support the tendering and contract review process in the GZ as required and in…