We are looking for a skilled Quality Manager

Job Description

The Quality Manager monitors and gives advice on quality activities in the project phase and the preparation for operations phase within quality assurance and control and project execution. The Quality Manager is integrated within the Project Management Team to jointly ensure achievement of project objectives as follows:

• Liaise closely with client and subcontractors' teams to ensure high level of quality assurance and control at the shipyard, other fabrication yards and related sites
• Monitors and actively promotes compliance with legislative, client, AIP required standards and address and follow up on deviations from such
• Ensure that all project subcontracts and subcontractors reflect the required regulatory and standards compliance Client`s all rights reserved 
• Give proactive training and guidance to own personnel, subcontractors and the client within quality
• Monitor that project activities are carried out in conformance with laws and regulations, contractual requirements and the Project Execution Plan.
• Prepare, implement and follow-up the Project Quality Plan.
• Ensure good cooperation, communication and alignment between the base organization and the project.
• Follow up project nonconformity handling related to QA & QC.
• Support the Project Team in establishing, documenting and publishing the Project Management System and tools.
• Transfer of Quality related experience within, to and from the project.
• Act as AIP focal point for system criticality assessments as input towards Contractor ITPs
• Act as the main point of contact for the client and Contractors regarding Quality issues at the shipyard, fabrication yards and related sites.
• Report status on audits, inspections, nonconformities and deviations to the project management and client.
• Provide necessary input to the risk management system.
• Monitor that project activities are carried out in conformance with laws and regulations, contractual requirements and the Project Execution Plan.
• Prepare, implement and follow-up the Project Quality Plan.
• Ensure good cooperation, communication and alignment between the base organization and the project.
• Follow up project nonconformity handling related to QA & QC.
• Support the Project Team in establishing, documenting and publishing the Project Management System and tools.
• Transfer of Quality related experience within, to and from the project.
• Act as AIP focal point for system criticality assessments as input towards Contractor ITPs.
• Act as the main point of contact for the client and Contractors regarding Quality issues at the shipyard, fabrication yards and related sites.
• Report status on audits, inspections, nonconformities and deviations to the project management and client.
• Provide necessary input to the risk management system.

Qualification Requirements

• Engineering degree or equivalent.
• Minimum 15 years of on-site experience with Quality in large offshore projects, ideally in combination with a related operations background. Shipyard exposure and experience in the Emirates / Middle East region an advantage.
• Strong interpersonal skills applied to a multi-disciplined and multi-culture project team.
• Knowledge about operations including reporting system, offshore Quality regulations
• Proficient English verbal and written communication skills, including report writing and presentationsGood understanding of risk management, processes and procedures.
• Knowledge and experience with UK regulations and international standards an advantage.
• Personality and experience to be a driving force for all QA and QC related matters for the project team and the subcontractors
• Proactive approach with the ability to build relationships with Client, Contractor and AIP teams and ability to provide solutions to problems and issues faced
• Organized, systematic and flexible with a good attention to details • Diplomacy and assertiveness with ability to influence positive change
• Ability to challenge and be challenged in a positive manner • Contract and contractor management experience and acumen, an advantage.
• An organized, systematic approach; self-starter / proactive; able to multi-task and still meet deadlines.
• Flexibility.
• Ability to independently prioritize tasks
• Decision maker.
• Problem-solving skills
• Updated in common computer applications

Duration: Trondheim/ Oslo/ Aberdeen/ and Dubai in June 2023.

About MDE

When the right people connect, we create value.

MDE Group is a global recruitment company, specializing in finding and placing the greatest talents worldwide. MDE currently consists of 12 companies that offer consulting, staffing, recruitment services as well as offshore personnel. With our unique knowledge of both the local and the international market, we will connect employees and companies, so they both find exactly what they are looking for. MDE aims to contribute to people developing and to ensure that our customers achieve great value from our services. We first succeed when both clients and our candidates reach their goals, together.

Our mission is to deliver relevant expertise. The right person with the right competence, at the right place and time. So simple, yet so difficult.t expertise. The right person with the right competence, at the right place and time. So simple, yet so difficult.