Position Title: Quality Lead - Improvement
Work Schedule: 10 hrs/day, 6 days/week, ~26 days/month
Work Location: Onshore, Qatar
Contract Term: 36 months (possibility to extend)
Estimated Start Date: October 2025 or ASAP
Job Purpose
The Quality Lead - Improvement is responsible for the integrity and fit-for-service of all goods and services procured across major projects. This role ensures high-quality, cost-effective, and safe operations while identifying trends and areas for improvement to enhance project quality and efficiency throughout the project lifecycle.
Key Challenges
- Providing oversight under tight timelines while maintaining excellence in quality assurance.
- Establishing, managing, and enforcing the Quality Management System across projects.
- Ensuring contractors, vendors, and suppliers meet all quality requirements and deliver projects on time, within budget, and flawlessly.
- Driving continuous improvement by analyzing quality data and implementing initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct trend analysis of quality data and develop improvement plans.
- Collaborate with project quality managers to implement quality improvement initiatives in line with industry standards.
- Monitor and assess the work of contractors and vendors.
- Evaluate project quality risks and develop contingency plans using quality tools such as SWOT, FMEA, infinity diagram, fault tree analysis, decision tree, and bowtie analysis.
- Analyze audit results, deficiency reports, non-conformance reports (NCRs), and specification deviations to identify trends and propose improvements.
- Provide guidance to contractor and vendor quality personnel on quality plans, gap analyses, and compliance with project requirements.
- Collect lessons learned to improve future projects and enhance quality interfaces.
- Develop and implement electronic quality controls, dashboards, and file management systems.
- Participate in project lessons learned sessions to optimize processes.
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Sciences, Engineering, or related discipline.
- Minimum 8 years' experience in Quality within the Oil & Gas or related industries, including at least 1 year in a supervisory or oversight role.
- Knowledge and experience with quality systems, specifications, and industry standards.
- Experience in quality improvement processes and statistical methods (e.g., Power BI, control charts, fishbone diagrams, regression analysis).
- Strong understanding of project risk management and statistical quality tools.
- Experience working with contractors, vendors, and service providers on large-scale projects.
- Familiarity with project management systems relevant to oil & gas or industrial projects.