Lead Project Quality Auditor

Role Overview

Lead Project Quality Auditor at HILL International. This is a quality assurance and audit leadership position responsible for ensuring organizational compliance with quality standards, regulatory requirements, and client specifications across all project phases.

Role Purpose

Inspect and evaluate project quality processes, products, and deliverables to ensure compliance with established standards and regulatory requirements. Establish internal audit frameworks, identify improvement opportunities, and mentor staff on quality assurance practices across the organization.

Key Responsibilities

Quality Inspection & Compliance

• Inspect the organization's quality processes to ensure that standards are being met.
• Inspect products and materials to ensure compliance with established quality standards.
• Monitor and evaluate the quality of project processes and products.
• Ensure that all project deliverables meet the agreed-upon quality standards.
• Perform random, scheduled, and surprise quality audits of jobsites, vendors, and other subcontractors.

Quality Management Systems

• Specify, implement, and test quality management procedures and controls to ensure organizational compliance with regulatory and client requirements.
• Develop and implement procedures and controls to manage quality processes.
• Develop and maintain quality assurance policies and procedures.
• Develop and maintain quality assurance documentation.
• Establish and maintain an internal audit plan to verify that organizational internal controls, operational procedures, and risk management processes comply with regulatory requirements.

Quality Improvement & Corrective Action

• Identify areas for improvement and suggest solutions.
• Investigate customer complaints and non-conformance issues.
• Develop and implement corrective and preventive actions.
• Ability to issue NCR and follow up corrective actions.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of internal controls, operational procedures, and risk management processes.

Compliance & Regulatory

• Ensure compliance with relevant regulations and standards.
• Liaise with external quality assurance bodies.
• Inform themselves of the relevant Quality, Environmental, Safety and Occupational Health Policies, Manuals and Procedures within HILL International and ensure continued compliance with these requirements while employed by HILL.

Stakeholder Management & Training

• Liaise with project teams to ensure that quality standards are met.
• Assist Project Manager, Construction Manager, and Operations Manager with quality control.
• Train and mentor project staff on quality assurance processes.
• Provide direction and on the job training to assigned personnel.

Documentation & Reporting

• Maintain accurate documentation to support policies and procedures.
• Maintain and record records of employee qualifications, certifications, and licenses, and document training and work history.
• Monitor and report on quality issues and performance.
• Prepare reports to communicate outcomes of quality activities.

General Responsibilities

• Perform other duties as assigned by the line manager or supervisor.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor degree in engineering or management from an accredited university.
• Minimum 10 years' professional experience including as quality manager for large-scale projects.
• Experience performing project audits.
• Broad knowledge of quality principles and tools and their application to engineering, environmental, procurement, construction, testing, operations, or decommissioning.
• Knowledge of the application of corrective actions to reconcile nonconforming conditions.
• Knowledge of project management processes and procedures.
• Knowledge of regulatory requirements and functions which impact the quality program or plan.

Skills & Competencies

• Proficiency in verbal and written communications.
• Proficiency in providing direction and on the job training to assigned personnel.
• Ability to issue NCR and follow up corrective actions.