Project Quality Manager

Wood•New Orleans, LA

11h•Onsite

About The Position

Wood Projects operates across all aspects of Conventional Energy, Process & Chemicals and Renewable Energy & Power, our capital Projects business delivers the best possible return from our client’s capital expenditure. Our 12,000 experts deliver Project Management, Engineering, Construction & Project Delivery, Engineering Procurement & Construction in some of the world’s most complex and innovative projects. Our Industrial & Power team is seeking a Project Quality Manager with proven experience managing site based. Authorization to work lawfully in the US without sponsorship from Wood is required. The position will oversee the management of deployed quality resources across the project. The successful candidate will be expected to work collaboratively with project leadership team, Quality Manager- P&I and other relevant stakeholders to deliver results in the areas of management system deployment, assurance, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

Degree/diploma or local equivalent in Quality management, project management or related discipline (essential)
Lead Auditor qualification by recognized industry body (essential)
Proficient in recognized root cause analysis techniques (preferred)
10+ years relevant experience (preferably in associated industry)
Comprehensive understanding in industry standards (ISO 9001, ISO 19011 and associated Wood Standards)
High level of effective and engaging communication skills in both written and spoken format
Excellent planner and organizer
Analytical, problems solving skills and systematic thinking
Strong ability to influence without direct authority
Consistently model and lead on Wood’s shared values
Work effectively across different cultures and varied business groups and services with a global mind-set
Both challenge and support the business to encourage and drive improvement and learning

Nice To Haves

Chartered Quality Professional (preferred)
Proficient in use of continuous improvement tools and techniques
Membership of CQI/ASQ Quality organizations, Project Management Institute or equivalent (desirable)

Responsibilities

Leadership Management of all aspects of quality across the project including the supervision of assigned quality resources
Promote Quality across the project including the effective communication and engagement of what quality means and how it adds value
Provide functional support to quality team ensuring they are aware of their roles, responsibilities and deliverables.
Ensure they are competent and provided with mentoring where required
Effective quality planning to ensure the project is resourced and defined quality deliverables are produced in line with agreed timeframes
Ensuring direct reports are assessed as being competent for their allocated roles and coaches, mentors and supports the ongoing development of these resources
Undertake activities in support of OAQ objectives, as cascaded from BU, and to further cascade to regional projects
Promotion and of risk based planning of project assurance schedules
Timely provision of data, key risks, trends and themes to Quality Manager- P&I on a monthly basis.
Responsible for promotion and embedment of Customer Satisfaction system and feedback processes
Input of Quality Data into monthly PMR Assurance
Ensure the project level assurance program is deployed in line with key project deliverables, including the resourcing of competent personnel to deliver
Identification and management of improvement plans to reduce/ eliminate risk identified during assurance activities
Improvement
ATRAC Wood’s Audit management and action tracking system, is effectively deployed across the project
Ensure that suitable and sufficient investigation and Root Cause Analysis is applied where applicable
Escalates project Quality issues to Quality Manager- P&I for resolution and intervention
Supports the drive for standardization of BMS content across the business, maximizing the use of global and business essential consistency processes where applicable