Senior QHSES Assurance Specialist (Procurement Quality - E&I)

Role Overview

Senior QHSES Assurance Specialist (Procurement Quality - E&I) at McDermott.

Role Purpose

The Senior QHSES Assurance Specialist improves the QHSES Assurance discipline across McDermott by applying best practices and deep expertise. The role acts as a resource and mentor for less experienced colleagues, solves complex problems using discipline-specific knowledge, and ensures the QHSES Assurance team and related teams operate within appropriate guidelines and policies while enhancing customer, operational, project, and service outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

Management Systems & Strategy

• Support the development and establishment of the new management system.
• 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.
• Assist Functional Process Subject Matter Experts in the withdrawal of legacy practices from existing systems.

Documentation & Procedures

• Participate in the design, implementation, and enforcement of company document templates for the development or revision of all documents.
• Interface with Functional Process Subject Matter Experts and advise on best practices for the creation of documents and organization within the management system.
• Plan, develop, organize, write, and edit engineering and company procedures and other related documents.
• Analyze documents to maintain the continuity of the style of content.
• Suggest modifications to documents to make them easier to understand.
• Manage updates and revisions to technical literature.
• Perform quality checks of documents with an emphasis on sentence structure, grammar, and spelling.
• Prepare and review procedures and work instructions.

Quality Assurance & Auditing

• Ensure QC system attribute for documents to maintain quality reporting from the system.
• Perform audits (internal and external) as per plan monthly and report timely results and reports.
• Lead and perform Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for quality-related issues.

Performance Management & Continuous Improvement

• 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.
• 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.

Training & Support

• Administer training for new team members.
• Translate concepts and information into simplified written and visual instruction or training material. Use stakeholder feedback to modify and improve solutions.
• Provide project bids support related to quality upon request.

Reporting & Communication

• Report and status progress as required by the execution plan and requested by Management.
• Communicate at all levels within the organization and summarize and explain complex technical situations.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field of study.
• 8+ years of industry experience related to EPC construction or fabrication.
• ISO 9001, AS 9100, AS 9110, or other globally recognized Quality Management Systems Internal Auditor training preferred.

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.
• Strong decision-making skills.
• Strong analytical and organizational skills for evaluating trending data.
• Strong interpersonal skills to work with other departments in a tactful and effective manner.
• Communication and presentation skills, both written and spoken.
• Computer literacy in Microsoft Word, Visio, PowerPoint, and Excel.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Skilled at prioritization and multi-tasking.
• Able to write in explanatory and procedural styles for multiple audiences.
• Competent in dealing with a variety of variables in situations where only limited standardization may exist.
• Strong understanding of Lean and Continuous Improvement concepts, principles, and practice.
• Document Management experience is a plus.