Project Quality Manager

About Worley

Role purpose

Project quality systems and compliance

• Develop, obtain approval for, and enforce project-specific Quality Management Systems, manuals, procedures, and quality plans.
• Apply project changes in requirements, specifications, or schedules through the applicable management-of-change procedure.
• Maintain quality objectives, KPIs, contractual requirements, and service-provider quality expectations across project phases.
• Review quality systems from process licensors, EPC contractors, suppliers, and other service providers for compliance.
• Monitor QA/QC compliance through reviews, follow-up, audits, and periodic assessment of project activities.

Risk, audits, and continuous improvement

• Maintain and periodically review project risk, lesson-learned, and non-conformance registers with project packages and stakeholders.
• Review audit findings and ensure corrective actions are completed and communicated to relevant parties.
• Monitor quality trends, non-conformance reports, material delivery deficiencies, and preservation needs; support root-cause and preventive actions.
• Maintain an internal quality audit plan and share project lessons with the PTS team for future projects.

Resources and project interfaces

• Ensure QA/QC staffing and resources meet project type, size, complexity, and specialist needs.
• Include suitable QA/QC requirements and KPIs in contractor, vendor, and service-provider scopes; support contracting strategy and third-party inspection selection.
• Support project management and committees in quality-related interfaces with third parties, contractors, consultants, and suppliers.
• Coordinate with PTS managers on quality requirements, non-conformance, compliance, and improvement initiatives.

Team and business accountabilities

• Guide team performance, development, training, and task completion; communicate project strategy and quality expectations.
• Support control of QA/QC expenditure against approved budgets and investigate significant variances.
• Promote safety, review team HSE compliance, maintain professional communications, and support process improvements and legal compliance.

Experience and education

• Relevant engineering bachelor's degree or equivalent from an accredited university.
• At least 20 years of relevant oil and gas or petrochemical industry experience, including at least five years in a similar position on international projects.
• ADNOC project experience and FEED and EPC phase experience are required.
• Five years of GCC-region experience is preferred; PMC experience is preferred.
• Knowledge of engineering and procurement quality activities, project handover, and associated compliance requirements.
• Written and verbal communication skills and a record of completed project execution phases.

Preferred certifications

• Quality Management Systems certification, such as ISO 9000, is preferred.
• Lead Auditor certification is preferred.

Technical competencies

• Project quality systems, QA/QC, project compliance, risk, documentation, and confidentiality.
• Quality audits, non-conformance registers, contractor monitoring, concession requests, QC testing, and field or source inspections.
• Manufacturing data records, project lessons learned, handover requirements, technical reporting, contracting, and stakeholder communication.