QA-QC Manager - PMC Quality

QA-QC Manager – PMC Quality

QA-QC Manager - PMC Quality in Sharjah Emirate, United Arab Emirates is a Civil Engineering opportunity for an experienced quality leader who can direct project quality assurance, quality control, audit strategy, compliance reviews, contractor quality performance, and program-wide Quality Management System implementation.

Location:

Sharjah Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Industry: Civil Engineering
Function:
Quality Assurance

Experience:

Minimum 10 years in quality, including 5 years in management and aviation projects
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: 25, (estimated—final offer to be confirmed)

• Lead the QA-QC function across the PMC program and provide strategic direction for quality assurance and quality control activities.
• Define and monitor quality-related requirements from bids, contracts, employer obligations, PMC responsibilities, and statutory requirements.
• Establish a deliverables and requirements schedule to track quality obligations across the program.
• Promote quality as a core project value and act as a visible quality leader across the program.
• Establish and review the PMC QA organizational structure to meet project scope, resource, and delivery needs.
• Develop and maintain the RACI matrix for the QA-QC function to clarify roles, responsibilities, authority, and accountability.
• Support program leadership in defining risk profiles and capturing quality-related risks across planned and active works.
• Review legislative and statutory requirements regularly to identify applicable quality obligations and program impact.
• Oversee the preparation, approval, deployment, and continual review of QMS documentation, including quality manuals, plans, processes, guidance, and templates.
• Ensure awareness and training activities are delivered so staff understand and can access technical quality documentation.
• Support other project functions in developing protocols and plans that embed quality requirements and best practice systems.
• Drive lessons learned, project completion reviews, and continual improvement initiatives across PMC staff, consultants, contractors, and field teams.
• Support rewards and recognition activities that encourage quality-focused behavior and best practice adoption.
• Contribute to digital innovation strategies that improve quality efficiency, reporting, inspection control, and program transparency.
• Establish and implement an internal and external audit strategy covering first-party and second-party audits.
• Coordinate audit planning with the client, consultants, contractors, and relevant program stakeholders.
• Shadow selected consultant-led and contractor-led audits to confirm effectiveness and consistency.
• Manage audit records, reports, findings, corrective actions, and timely closure of audit issues.
• Undertake planned project and program quality inspections according to QMS requirements.
• Work with program leadership on start-up reviews, handover reviews, and compliance checks for time-critical processes.
• Support quality walks with project leadership to strengthen site awareness, inspection discipline, and quality visibility.
• Coordinate with Parsons EMEA Sector Quality Lead for ISO or external certification-related visits and program readiness.
• Support client feedback interviews and ensure performance feedback is captured, reviewed, and acted upon.
• Oversee effective quality control processes, inspection regimes, testing plans, and surveillance activities to verify work quality, function, and reliability.
• Confirm that materials and works inspection processes are actively used to monitor statutory requirements, design intent, and specification compliance.
• Ensure non-conformance processes are applied where work does not meet required standards.
• Monitor regular site and off-site inspections and ensure findings are recorded, issued, and closed within agreed timelines.
• Review contractor quality control documentation, including quality control plans, inspection and test plans, inspection templates, and release schedules.
• Support construction readiness reviews and work start notifications with field teams.
• Establish, support, and maintain program-wide defects management systems for field project teams.
• Oversee project-specific defect tracking using Open Space and ensure relevant training is provided.
• Support handover and close-out activities by reviewing documentation, planning records, quality files, and archive readiness.
• Establish a quality reporting strategy aligned with PMO and client requirements.
• Define quality KPIs, performance measures, lead indicators, and lag indicators with program leadership and client teams.
• Ensure quality data is accessible, valid, and collected through efficient systems that reduce unnecessary administration.
• Oversee the preparation, issue, and presentation of program quality reports, including KPI trends and contractor performance analysis.
• Review consultant and contractor quality reports and attend relevant coordination meetings.
• Monitor performance against program…