Quality Assurance & Quality Control Engineer

Title Quality Assurance & Quality Control Engineer

K 's Sustainable Technology Solutions (STS) group is looking for a Quality Assurance & Quality Control Engineer for a 5 year PMC contract supplying Programme Management services to Kuwait Oil Company. The contract supports KOC in achieving its objectives of reaching optimum capacity in its oilfields and enhancing its facilities by the most efficient and economical means available.

The contract provides project management, coordination, planning, design, engineering, construction management, contracting, procurement, project controls and other services for construction of new oil field facilities, up grading of existing facilities, and technology transfer.

• Facilitate the development and effective implementation of Project Quality Management Systems that meet corporate, location and contractual requirements.
• Manage project service and product verification and inspection consistent with criticality assessments and contractual and regulatory obligations.
• Manage project quality support functions including quality planning, preventive action, non conformance control, corrective action, audits and project quality reporting and review.

• Bachelor's degree in engineering
• 8 years of industry experience
• 5 years of post graduation experience on oil and gas projects
• 3 years of post graduation experience in the same designation
• Thorough understanding of quality management principles and the implementation and improvement of management systems
• Practical experience of plant and vendor inspection of all types of mechanical equipment typically required at oil & gas installations, both on shore and off shore
• Ability to develop, maintain, and update in house technical standards & specifications
• Communication skills - verbal and written - to report standard and presentation skills
• Demonstrable capabilities in planning and organising projects and activities to meet project requirements, e.g. quality planning and resourcing for projects to ensure they are suitably resourced with sufficient and capable quality management expertise
• Experience in managing a team of quality practitioners
• Familiarity with ISO 9000 and 14000 series and international standards relevant to the oil & gas industry
• Fully conversant with NDE requirements and sour environments
• Eligible for auditor registration or equivalent

• Work with the HSE / QA QC Manager and the Project Management Team to ensure project management plans and dependent systems and procedures are developed and implemented per the Worley Parsons Project Management Process (WPMP) and Enterprise Management System (EMS)
• Ensure project personnel are suitably trained in project plan requirements and able to access and apply dependent systems, procedures and reference materials
• Confirm effectiveness of quality planning to establish and resource process controls and prerequisite product and service verification and inspection arrangements consistent with criticality, statutory and contractual obligations
• Plan and implement design control, verification, validation and review activities
• Implement and coordinate vendor assessment and inspection activities
• Implement and verify construction inspection and testing activities
• Manage non conformance, corrective action and preventive action processes
• Establish an effective risk based audit programme
• Ensure effectiveness of project management review programmes, including collection, analysis and reporting of project performance measures
• Participate in the global quality learning community initiative to enable quality professionals to communicate and receive updates on latest developments
• Facilitate the implementation of existing and new company processes and capability enhancements across project operations
• Facilitate independent review/certification of project quality management systems in line with company and customer requirements
• Ensure customer quality management requirements and concerns and the needs of multiple stakeholders are identified and managed by the project team effectively