Senior QHSES Assurance Specialist

Role Overview

Senior QHSES Assurance Specialist at McDermott, responsible for quality, health, safety, environment, and security assurance. This role is required for Electrical and Instrumentation scope.

Company Overview

McDermott is a global engineering, procurement, and construction company with more than 100 years of industry experience. The company employs over 30,000 professionals across 54 countries, delivering infrastructure projects across the energy value chain including subsea, offshore platforms, offshore wind, and onshore energy solutions.

Role Purpose

The Senior QHSES Assurance Specialist applies in-depth knowledge, experience, and best practices to solve complex QHSES Assurance problems and improve the QHSES Assurance discipline within McDermott. The role acts as a resource for less experienced colleagues, impacts customer, operational, project, and service activities, and ensures compliance with appropriate guidelines and policies.

Key Responsibilities

Management System Development

• Support the development and establishment of the new management system
• Participate in the design, implementation, and enforcement of company document templates for the development or revision of all documents
• Assist Functional Process Subject Matter Experts in the withdrawal of legacy practices from existing systems

Quality Systems and Initiatives

• Partner with Functional Process Subject Matter Experts to drive major Quality Systems initiatives
• Identify and work with Quality Directors to resolve complex issues that have implications beyond the functional area
• Perform quality check of documents with an emphasis on sentence structure, grammar, and spelling
• Ensure QC system attributes for documents to maintain quality reporting from the system

Documentation and Procedures

• Plan, develop, organize, write, and edit engineering and company procedures and other related documents
• Interface with Functional Process Subject Matter Experts and advise on best practices for the creation of documents and organization within the management system
• Analyze documents to maintain the continuity of style and content
• Suggest modifications to documents to make them easier to understand
• Manage updates and revisions to technical literature
• Prepare and review procedures and work instructions
• Translate concepts and information into simplified written and visual instruction or training material, using stakeholder feedback to modify and improve solutions

Training and Development

• Administer training for new team members

Performance Monitoring and Improvement

• Report and status progress as required by the execution plan and requested by Management
• Oversee the KPI, QI, and Performance Quality process, trend analysis, and initiate ground-level documentation and understanding for benchmarking and lessons learned within the operating units
• Analyze trends and measured data to assist in setting targets, future planning, and establishing action plans for improvement and effective follow-up to verify compliance
• Lead and perform Root Cause Analysis for quality-related issues
• Perform audits (internal and external) as per plan monthly and report timely results and reports

Stakeholder Communication

• Demonstrate solid and consistent communication within and across functions, with the ability to persuade staff to change their way of working to incorporate quality management methods
• Strong ability to communicate at all levels within the organization and the ability to summarize and explain complex technical situations

Project Support

• Provide project bids support related to quality upon request

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field of study
• 8+ years of relative industry experience related to EPC construction or fabrication
• ISO9001, AS9100, AS9110, or other globally recognized Quality Management Systems Internal Auditor training preferred
• Possesses a strong understanding of Lean/Continuous Improvement concepts, principles, and practice
• Document Management is a plus
• Successful degree holding candidates will be required to provide a degree equivalency certificate issued by the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (MoHESR); candidates who do not already have this available are recommended to commence the process to avoid delays in the offer and onboarding process

Skills & Competencies

• Ability to work as a team member as well as act as a team leader
• Ability to understand and positively respond to organizational demands in a continuously changing business environment
• Demonstrate strong decision-making skills
• Strong analytical and organizational skills for evaluating trending data
• Ability to write in explanatory and procedural styles for multiple audiences
• Computer literate in Microsoft programs: Word, Visio, PowerPoint, and Excel
• Strong attention to detail
• Skilled at prioritization and multi-tasking
• Competent in dealing with a variety of variables in situations where only limited standardization may exist
• Must have strong interpersonal skills to work with other departments in a tactful and effective manner
• Communication and presentation skills, both written and spoken