Competency Program Manager - Quality Development
Listed on 2026-08-28
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Quality Assurance - QA/QC
Quality Control - QC Analysts/Managers, Quality Engineering, Regulatory Compliance Specialist, QA Specialist - Analyst/Manager
Competency Program Manager
- Quality Development Job Snapshot Role:
Competency Program Manager
- Quality Development
Location:
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Industry: Professional Training and Coaching Function:
Training and Development
Experience:
Minimum 15 years of relevant quality, competency, or technical training experience Job Type: Full-time
Position Overview Competency Program Manager
- Quality Development in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is a Professional Training and Coaching opportunity focused on building structured competency frameworks, qualification standards, technical training programs, and assessment systems for Quality personnel working across major project environments. Parsons is hiring an experienced competency leader to strengthen workforce capability, certification compliance, quality performance, and continuous improvement across multidisciplinary engineering and construction teams.
- Country:
Saudi Arabia - City:
Riyadh - Industry: Professional Training and Coaching
- Function:
Training and Development - Salary:
- Gender: Any
- Candidate Nationality:
Any - Job Type: Full-time
The Competency Program Manager will establish and manage a project-wide system for defining, assessing, developing, and maintaining Quality competencies. The position will ensure that inspectors, engineers, auditors, testing personnel, contractors, and specialist Quality professionals possess the technical qualifications and practical capability required for their assigned responsibilities. By linking competency assessment with project risks, audit findings, NCR trends, lessons learned, and performance data, the role will help strengthen Quality Management System effectiveness and reduce capability-related failures.
Key Responsibilities- Develop, implement, and maintain the Quality Competency Management Framework across the project.
- Define competency requirements and qualification criteria for Quality personnel and other quality-critical project roles.
- Establish and maintain competency matrices covering QA, QC, inspection, testing, auditing, commissioning, and specialist Quality functions.
- Determine competency requirements based on project scope, specifications, technical risks, codes, standards, and client expectations.
- Conduct periodic competency assessments for Quality personnel and selected project functions.
- Perform structured skills gap analyses and establish individual or team development plans for identified deficiencies.
- Develop and manage the Quality Competency Development Program in alignment with project priorities.
- Define minimum education, experience, qualification, certification, and technical capability requirements for quality-critical positions.
- Review professional credentials, technical certificates, licenses, and qualifications submitted by Quality personnel.
- Establish role-specific requirements for Inspectors, QA-QC Engineers, Quality Engineers, Auditors, Welding Inspectors, NDT personnel, Material Inspectors, testing specialists, and related roles.
- Coordinate training in Quality Management Systems, inspection practices, testing, auditing, NCR management, Root Cause Analysis, corrective action, and continuous improvement.
- Develop Quality awareness programs for engineering, construction, procurement, commissioning, and operations teams.
- Work with Discipline Managers and Quality Managers to identify technical competency requirements for individual project scopes.
- Design competency-based training plans, assessment methodologies, evaluation standards, and progression criteria.
- Monitor completion and effectiveness of mandatory Quality training and competency development activities.
- Establish and maintain a centralized Quality Competency and Training Register.
- Track expiry dates for professional certifications, technical licenses, mandatory training, and specialist qualifications.
- Verify that personnel performing inspection, testing, auditing, and other quality-sensitive activities remain appropriately qualified.
- Coordinate with approved external training organizations, certification bodies, technical specialists, and assessors.
- Develop and implement Quality Induction and awareness programs for newly mobilized project personnel.
- Define competency requirements for contractor and subcontractor Quality teams and support verification of their credentials.
- Participate in Quality audits and assessments to confirm compliance with personnel competency requirements.
- Analyze NCRs, audit findings, observations, recurring defects, and lessons learned to identify capability-related weaknesses.
- Develop targeted improvement programs where project performance indicates specific competency deficiencies.
- Support Root Cause Analysis when insufficient capability, qualification, or training contributes to a quality failure.
- Establish Quality Competency KPIs and develop dashboards for management visibility.
- Prepare periodic competency status reports for the Project Quality Director, Quality Manager, and senior leadership.
- Monitor competency program delivery against…
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