Senior Assurance Manager; QHSE

Overview

The Senior Assurance Manager is responsible for leading and overseeing Quality Assurance, Quality Control, Health, Safety, Security, and Environmental (HSSE) functions across the project. The role ensures compliance with client requirements, regulatory standards, and industry best practices through effective governance, audits, risk management, performance monitoring, and continuous improvement initiatives, while promoting a strong culture of quality, safety, and operational excellence.

• Responsible for monitoring the implementation of the Quality and HSSE Management System for the project in compliance with the Client Requirements, Hill Corporate policies, International Standards, and Industry best practices.
• Periodically conduct detailed audits to assess compliance with QA & HSSE systems, procedures, and related activities.
• Regularly interact with the Client, Project Management Team, and Project Stakeholders’ Quality Representatives to assess and report on site activities, quality and HSSE issues, and observed performance trends.
• Provide input to the Client on project performance metrics and process/system improvements.

• Establish and implement in conjunction with the LDC (and Other Consultants) Quality Assurance and Quality Control (QA/QC) procedures for the project.
• Ensure that the LDC (and Other Consultants) implements a computerized inspection and test management system to register inspection and test data by date, location, material, work package, linking to NCRs.
• Monitor the activities of contractors and the LDC (and Other Consultants) supervision teams to ensure that project quality procedures are followed and that the result is quality execution and workmanship.
• Conduct audits of contractors and the LDC (and Other Consultants) QA/QC systems at least once per quarter to ensure effective implementation of their respective management systems.
• Carry out observations of quality and ensure that the LDC (and Other Consultants) issue Non‑Conformance Reports and follow up on corrective actions until the NCR is closed out.
• Ensure that contractors implement their own quality management systems that are aligned with and complement the LDC’s own procedures, and that such systems have been approved and accepted by the LDC (and Other Consultants).
• Make proposals to the Client (MODON) for correcting identified non‑compliant work as designed or constructed, instruct and supervise corrective actions, and confirm to MODON the satisfactory implementation of the correction.
• Ensure that the LDC (and Other Consultants) issue monthly Project Quality Reports describing inspections conducted in the preceding month, inspection results, issued NCRs, follow‑ups, and closures.

• Develop a project‑wide HSSE strategy that includes a safety incentive plan to be implemented by contractors and LDC (and Other Consultants) across the project.
• Ensure that contractors’ HSSE program and Construction Environmental Management Plans (CEMP) are in place, reviewed, and approved by the LDC (and Other Consultants) for conformance with MODON’s HSSE policy, statutory and contractual requirements, and industry best practices.
• Develop the framework for HSSE key performance indicators (KPIs), communicate these to MODON and the LDC, and review the KPIs periodically to assess HSSE proactive and reactive performance.
• Implement PMC’s HSSE program to promote a culture of safety and environmental compliance and awareness, covering waste management, educational measures (inductions and training courses), awareness campaigns, safety alerts, and other HSSE information.
• Develop reward and recognition schemes to promote a positive safety culture, implementing initiatives across the project to target high‑risk activities or areas of substandard performance.
• Ensure the LDC’s review of contractors’ Method Statements, Risk Assessments, and Work Plans, and that no activities are undertaken without an approved Method Statement, Risk Assessment, and Work Plan.
• Establish a comprehensive reporting program, collecting regular reports from contractors, storing and filing records, and implementing an audit program to test…