Senior Quality Advisor

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Quality Advisor to join our Global Project Centre, based in our Cairo, Egypt office. This is initially a 12 month contract, reporting into the Quality Manager.

The Senior Quality Advisor provides guidance and advice regarding the effective management of Quality Assurance and Quality Control (QA/QC), delivering quality management and improvement support to all projects and Functions within the designated area of responsibility.

They provide support to the relevant Quality Manager and their team in the maintenance and control of processes, procedures, work methods and initiatives in support of the Company's overall Quality strategies.

What will you be doing?

• Focal point for QA/QC matters, providing a support function to project management, ensuring that they have adequate resources and QA/QC input.
• The Quality engineer ensures the implementation/compliance and alignment of all quality programs, policies, processes, and procedures within the allocated packages/projects.
• Typical activities: Quality risk assessment, documentation review, inspection management including QC budget tracking and resource forecasting, performance monitoring and reporting, interface with internal and external parties for Quality related topics, supporting package/project until close-out with final documentation, supplier performance rating and Lesson Learned process.
• Supporting risk-based audit process and responsible of audit execution (both internal and external).
• Managing non-conformities, facilitate and review root-cause analysis investigation, monitor and contribute to corrective actions process, and verify effective implementation of solutions to prevent recurrence.
• Working in conjunction with Supply Chain Management (at project and category level), Engineering and Fabrication to assess, manage and develop suppliers' quality aspects, ensuring that quality requirements are well defined, understood and implemented by suppliers.
• Ensuring the Central Quality function capitalizes from Lessons Learned and provides support to project in accordance with best practices, striving to mitigate risk, promoting repeatability, safety and integrity consistently.
• Assisting with the maintenance, development and implementation of Continuous Improvement of our Business Management System.
• Advising project personnel in all matters relating to the application and implementation of the Business Management System on projects.
• Responsible for the co-ordination, preparation and delivery of Project Quality Plans and may provide support and input to tendering process as directed.
• Driving and delivering quality awareness within projects and suppliers (Workshops, Talking Points, trainings, etc.).
• Contributing to resources development and mentoring to meet business needs.
• Supporting and promoting our commitments to Safety and the importance of Quality in influencing success of our Safety commitments.
• The Quality Engineer may be required to fulfill a Senior Quality Engineer role in small projects.

What experience would we like you to have?

Please note, if you don't tick all the boxes below but feel you have some of the relevant skills and experience we're looking for, please do consider applying. We would encourage you to apply with a CV that highlights your transferable skills and experience.

• Experience of the subsea, offshore or a related industry.
• Broad depth of Supplier Quality Management knowledge including inspection coordination and NCR management (technical quality capability).
• Good level of general education required, preferably supported by a diploma/degree in Engineering or Quality Management.
• Able to confidently communicate in English (both written and oral). Arabic language skills would also be advantageous for this role.
• Broad understanding of subsea products and welding works (structural and piping). Working experience with in-country fabrication yards (various regions) is a plus.
• Available to travel both domestically (Egypt) and internationally (onshore) up to 70 % of the time.
• Auditor competency, ideally demonstrated by certified lead auditor qualification and experience.
• Experience working on international, fast-paced projects.