Head of Quality Assurance - MEC

Provides regional leadership for all aspects of quality management, ensuring consistent, compliant, and efficient delivery of products and services that meet regulatory, industry standard, client, and business requirements. Working closely with the wider technical & delivery team.

Our Clients and Projects

Designing the future. Transforming the world.

Wood's Oil, Gas & New Energies business is built on a strong legacy of delivering large and complex projects for national and international energy companies across the globe.

We have experienced teams, a proven delivery model and a strong reputation.

We are the market-leading provider of integrated and innovative solutions that challenge the status-quo in the oil and gas upstream and midstream, onshore and offshore, gas to liquids and decarbonization and electrification markets. We pride ourselves in steady and predictable delivery, setting our sights on an exciting growth trajectory.

Energy security, transition and supply have never been more important. You, our enabling teams, are at the very forefront of transformative projects that are providing sustainable power to generations to come. We are the ones to bring low-carbon concepts to reality.

• Meaningful and interesting projects:Delivered to high profile clients across the Energy Sector
• Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:We are an organization actively committed to diversity and inclusion across our business
• Competitive remuneration package:With regular reviews to ensure we are rewarding at the right level in line with the market
• Medical Insurance: Ensures inpatient, and outpatient medical care is available should you require treatment
• Group Life and Personal Accident Insurance
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  The company provides Life Assurance cover
• End of Service Gratuity:In line with UAE Labor Law, all employees are eligible for an End of Service benefit
• The Employee Share Plan
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  Gives you the opportunity to purchase Wood shares and receive a match from the company
• Long Service Award:Wood values the commitment and loyalty of our people. Celebrating Long Service provides an opportunity for the business to demonstrate their appreciation of the hard work, dedication and many years’ services of our employees at 5 - year service milestones
• Commitment to continued professional development:Development plans that are tailored to your individual needs and interests
• Global connections
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  Join experts around the world who are at the leading edge of our industry, shaping the standards of our profession
• Energy Transition Academy:Join a community of experts sharing your knowledge and gaining more exposure to a variety of existing and emerging energy systems - delivered by experts in their field

the Regional Quality Manager is accountable for deploying quality strategy, governance, resources and systems across the region, driving assurance, risk management, and continuous improvement to enhance operational performance, customer satisfaction, and business outcomes.

Regional Leadership

• Ensure regional alignment and deployment of quality strategy, policy, standards, and objectives, ensuring quality is integrated into business planning and decision‑making at all regional levels.
• Lead the regional quality organisation, role modelling behaviours, that drive operational excellence across the region.

Quality Governance & Systems

• Ensure regional deployment of the Wood Business Management system and ATRAC including, induction, maintenance, governance and compliance with international standard requirements (eg ISO 9001).
• Ensure appropriate quality governance and management system review, bringing visibility to regional & functional management of quality performance, contractual compliance and customer satisfaction.
• Working closely with technical governance, acting as the primary contact for monitoring quality related risks and data (including COPQ), identifying trends and proactively intervening and supporting regions to prevent high potential incidents

People & Capability Development

• Manage all elements of regional quality resource including recruitment, succession, utilisation, performance management, competence, development and compensation to meet business needs.

Delivery Support

• Provide in region support to tenders and proposals ensuring quality requirements and risks are known, understood with controls and mitigations identified at the tendering stage and that proposed quality teams are sufficient to address tendered scopes.
• Ensure effective project start up support including resource mobilisation, quality planning and system set up and deployment.
• Ensure quality arrangements are in place for workshare and are effectively deployed.
• Collaborate with technical functions to drive efficiency and right first-time delivery.
• Identify, assess, and oversee mitigation of regional risks to quality and support mitigation of enterprise quality risks.
• Implement regional assurance plans to address key risks, validate operational discipline and BMS…