Senior QA/QC Engineer

Qatarenergy

Job Context & Major Challenge(s)

• Balancing inspector deployment across concurrent projects of varying scale and criticality, while maintaining workload equity and meeting quality coverage needs.
• Acting as the main link between the Projects QA/QC Section and various project teams, ensuring early engagement and alignment of quality expectations.
• Conducting quality assessments and surveillance visits across multiple sites to proactively identify performance risks, resource gaps, and procedural weaknesses.
• Monitoring and evaluating the quality performance of contractors and driving timely closure of non-conformities and systemic issues highlighted in NCRs and CARs.
• Preparing accurate business cases for resource justifications and ensuring transparent documentation of workforce utilization and productivity metrics.

Key Job Accountabilities - I

• Support the QA/QC Lead in coordinating QA/QC activities across active CAT II VI projects, ensuring quality plans, inspection strategies, and contractor oversight are implemented effectively.
• Serve as the primary QA/QC liaison to assigned Project Management teams, ensuring quality requirements are understood, integrated, and executed across all disciplines.
• Review and monitor the inspectors workload and productivity, ensuring optimal distribution of QA/QC resources based on project risk, criticality, and execution needs.
• Prepare manpower forecast reports and develop business cases to justify resource requests, transfers, or renewals based on workload, shutdowns, and project complexity. Mentor junior QA/QC staff and promote a proactive quality culture among Company and contractor teams.
• Conduct regular field assessments and surveillance audits across project sites to monitor quality system implementation and identify opportunities for improvement.

Key Job Accountabilities - II

• Lead the tracking and performance evaluation of contractors QA/QC performance across all projects, including analysis of NCRs, CARs, and repeated deficiencies.
• Prepare quarterly contractor quality performance reports, highlighting trends, areas of concern, and recommended actions, and ensure accountability for gap closure.
• Track the effectiveness of corrective actions taken against audit findings and NCRs and escalate overdue or non-effective responses to the QA/QC Lead or Head.
• Ensure readiness of inspection teams by validating competency, availability, and engagement, particularly in preparation for shutdowns and tie-in activities.
• Conduct and lead external assessments, audits and verifications on the contractors procurement, engineering, construction and quality processes and identify any gaps within these areas. Conduct and lead external quality audits on contractors and internal self-assessments to gauge the effectiveness of the quality management system.