Lead QA Engineer

Project and role

Quality systems and audits

• Use the Parsons Quality Management System to support process development, optimization, procedure development, data collection, reporting, and quality training.
• Support client pre-bid, bid, contract planning, and project mobilization activities as directed.
• Establish project and programme quality systems, including quality plans, manuals, procedures, inspection frameworks, and audit schedules.
• Plan and conduct independent audits across project functions; ensure compliance with approved QA/QC programmes.
• Review project documents, witness audited activities, prepare audit checklists, and issue formal audit reports.
• Analyse audit findings to assess performance, identify recurring issues and trends, and find improvement opportunities.

Controls, reporting, and coordination

• Maintain corrective/preventive action, non-conformance report, and quality-observation tracking; monitor timely closeout and verify effectiveness.
• Ensure compliance with Parsons' quality requirements, client standards, contracts, and approved project procedures.
• Prepare, review, update, and maintain quality manuals, plans, procedures, forms, and other quality-system documentation.
• Review and approve quality documents prepared by internal teams, contractors, consultants, and other external organizations.
• Support project management interfaces across engineering, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, and handover.
• Use statistical process control and quality data to identify trends and risks; prepare performance reports, dashboards, metrics, and management summaries.
• Support management reviews, lessons-learned workshops, and continual improvement; coach and mentor lower-level quality staff.
• Coordinate with construction supervision, engineering, testing and commissioning, document control, and client representatives.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Quality Management, or a related discipline.
• At least 15 years of relevant experience in quality assurance, quality management systems, construction supervision, or major infrastructure and building projects.
• Experience working on large-scale, complex, multidisciplinary construction or destination-development projects.

Desired qualifications

• Professional certification such as ISO 9001 Lead Auditor, CQI/IRCA, ASQ, or equivalent.
• Membership in a recognized engineering or quality professional body.
• Experience with major programmes in Saudi Arabia or the wider Middle East.
• Experience supporting testing, commissioning, integrated systems, and project handover.
• Knowledge of statistical process control and quality-performance analytics.
• Experience with a construction supervision consultant, programme management consultant, or client representative.