Job Title : Quality ManagerLocation : DubaiCompany : Wood PlcSalary : Open Date : 2023-04-11Close Date : 2023-08-11
Overview / Responsibilities:
Wood is currently looking for a Quality Manager to join our team in Dubai, UAE.
Job Objective:
- Controls, manages and monitors the application of Quality management measures and systems across contracts/projects/regions in accordance with Wood quality policy, quality standard and agreed objectives
- Ensures the effective implementation and maintenance of quality management systems, complying with ISO 9001 requirements where applicable
- Report to contract/project or regional management on the performance of quality within their designated business area and proposing solutions and continual improvement
- Management of all aspects of quality across assigned business areas, including the supervision of assigned quality resources
- Promote the awareness of quality management principles (including quality and MS inductions) and provide advice and guidance to peers and colleagues
- Effective quality planning to ensure quality budgets are established, the function is resourced and defined quality deliverables are produced in line with agreed timeframes
- Resourcing of quality professionals with the appropriate quality experience and competencies
- Ensuring direct reports are assessed as being competent for their allocated roles and coaches, mentors and supports the ongoing development of these resources
- Understands and identifies emerging stakeholder requirements and establishes plans to address these
- Ensures requirements of the Wood quality policy, quality standard and agreed objectives are communicated and complied with across the Business unit/grouping
- Implementation of quality management system requirements, ensuring compliance with client requirements and/or ISO 9001 requirements
- Provide support to the generation of proposals and tenders in relation to quality elements
- Quality representative and interface with top management on all quality related matters
- Engages client quality representatives on a regular basis and acts expediently on both positive and negative client feedback
- Oversight, governance and implementation of all applicable quality related tools and applications
- Ensures that sufficient quality processes are deployed to manage product and service delivery
- Management of audit and assurance programmes for their designated business area
- Effective supply chain quality management is implemented including vendor capability assessments, performance monitoring and failure investigations
- Management, reporting and analysis of data arising from non-conformance, corrective actions and other key quality indicators
- Manages quality management system reviews and their outputs
- Works across functions to identify continuous improvement and sharing of good practice
- Undertakes investigations of quality related failures
- Actively participates in the wider quality network both offering and taking on good practices
Qualifications:
- Bachelor honours degree in a relevant engineering discipline from a recognized institution
- Previous Experience in execution of EPC projects within PMC.
- Lead Auditor qualification by recognised industry body (essential)
- Membership of CQI/ASQ or country specific (desirable)
- Formal training in recognised root cause analysis techniques (essential)
Knowledge, skills and experience:
- 20+ years of relevant experience in the industry and 10 years in the discipline minimum.
- Comprehensive understanding of ISO 9001, ISO 19011 and Wood auditing protocols
- Proficient in the analysis of processes and data
- Proficient in Microsoft Office
- High level of communication skills in both written and spoken format
- Proficient in the use of continual improvement tools and techniques
Personal attributes:
- Passion for quality management
- Excellent planner and organiser
- Analytical, problem solver and systematic thinker
- Team worker
- Excellent inter-personal skills
- Integrity and trustworthy
- Persistent and inquisitive in the pursuit in information and facts
- Empowers others to make decision within established parameters