Quality Manager - Superior Completions - Houston, TX

Superior Energy Services Careers•Houston, TX

8d•Onsite

About The Position

Superior Completions is seeking a Quality Manager for its Houston, Texas office. The Quality Manager shapes and advances the company’s quality strategy by leading the development, implementation, administration, and continuous improvement of quality systems across all SCS divisions. The role supports operational performance and customer satisfaction, ensures compliance with applicable regulatory and certification requirements, and helps the organization meet or exceed customer expectations. The Quality Manager represents the company to external certifying bodies and works across departments to foster accountability, innovation, and quality excellence. The position includes leading and developing quality personnel, managing the quality department’s budget and capital expenditures, overseeing quality-system and operational-support activities, and communicating management-system performance to upper management and external stakeholders. Domestic and international travel may be required. The company notes that duties and responsibilities may be changed or reassigned.

Requirements

High school diploma or GED required.
Five to seven years of related experience and/or training, preferably in the oil and gas industry, or an equivalent combination of education and experience, unless substituting a bachelor’s degree as described in the posting.
Five or more years of progressive people-leadership experience, including direct supervision, performance management, coaching, delegation, and talent development.
Demonstrated ability to lead, influence, and drive accountability across direct and indirect teams, including responsibility for multi-site quality personnel and a record of achieving quality standards, operational objectives, and business results.
Ability to read, comprehend, interpret, and explain management-system specifications such as API Q1, API Q2, and ISO 9001; product specifications such as API 14A, API 14L, and API 11D1; and industry standards such as AMS, ANSI, ASTM, and ASME.
Knowledge of quality management systems and ability to design practical systems and implement and maintain them.
Working knowledge of metrology, measurement techniques, and their limitations.
Understanding and working knowledge of materials, including metallurgy, elastomers, and thermoplastics.
Understanding and working knowledge of special processes, including heat treatment, coating, plating, painting, and welding.
Ability to read and understand domestic and international customer specifications and bid packages and communicate requirements to other functional groups through informal correspondence and formal documentation.
Understanding of work and product flow across processes and functional groups.
Basic understanding of SCS product offerings and oil and gas sector technologies.
Ability to evaluate, analyze, and interpret data for process improvements and management decisions.
Basic understanding of financial reports.
Experience and qualifications to perform internal and external supplier audits.
Working knowledge of health, environmental, and safety practices and requirements.
Working knowledge of export compliance laws.
Ability to work with and learn basic computer software programs.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree from a four-year college or university preferred.
Related experience or training in the oil and gas industry preferred.

Responsibilities

Train and develop quality department personnel, improve performance, and support their professional growth and advancement.
Administer and maintain quality systems in accordance with applicable management-system and product-specification requirements across all SCS divisions.
Design, implement, administer, and maintain new quality systems when required.
Represent the company in interactions with certifying-body registrars, including API and ISO registrars.
Manage the quality department’s capital expenditures and financial responsibilities, including creating and maintaining its budget.
Train personnel across departments on the management system and report management-system performance to upper management.
Oversee activities supporting operations to meet customer, system, and product requirements.
Establish the Quality Policy and other management-responsibility requirements for the management system throughout the division.
Interface with customers, suppliers, SCS departments, and upper management on management-system issues.
Evaluate existing systems throughout the division and facilitate process improvements.
Manage and direct quality-system functions, including supplier control, metrology, audits, inspection and testing, measurement and evaluation, and continuous improvement, as well as operational-support activities.
Direct the collection and consolidation of management-system performance data and metrics, analyze and evaluate the information, and report it to customers, suppliers, and internal functional groups.
Undertake special projects as directed by the VP Completion Services.
Travel domestically and internationally as required.