Description
Duties and Responsibilities:Continually review QA systems and procedures to meet current and future internal requirements, as well as national and international quality, health, safety & environmental (QHSE) standards.
- Promoting quality achievement and performance improvement throughout Houlder Ltd
- Performing internal and external / supplier audits and managing non-conformances
- supporting / supervising technical staff in carrying out internal or external compliance audits, often in harsh environments
- Ensure procedures are properly understood, carried out and evaluated and that product are investigated if necessary
- Maintaining a constant awareness of the business context and company profitability
- Bringing together employees of different disciplines and driving the group to formulate and agree comprehensive quality procedures
- Analysing technical and performance data against defined parameters for measuring QA achievement.
- Implementing and supporting the implementation of continuous improvement of processes, product or services and assisting with new product development process across Houlder
Documentation
- Review, rewrite and define quality procedures in conjunction with relevant standards and operating staff
- setting up and maintaining controls and documentation procedures
- Produce and review the QA management system reports
- Support project in the production of QA documentation packages in line with customer requirements.
Qualifications, Experience and Skills:
- Educated to HNCHND or Diploma level in Quality Assurance or similar discipline
- Significant demonstrable experience in the engineering sector ideally in the oil/gas/marine/renewables or defence industries particularly in the design phase.
- Ideally Member of the Chartered Quality Institute
- Strong background in quality systems and procedures
- Ideally will have experience of quality control plans within a technical/mechanical engineering environment, with the ability to read engineering drawings and customer specifications.
- Advanced training and/or detailed experience in ISO 9001
- Qualified Lead Auditor, several years' experience in a marine/offshore or engineering environment
- Ability to produce relevant reports and presentations accurately and concisely
- Excellent numeracy skills with the ability to assimilate and analyse information:
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office software including Excel, Word, Visio and PowerPoint
- Experience of working with a PDM, ERP or SharePoint system's would be an advantage
- Full clean driving licence and must be prepared to travel nationwide (possibly overseas) frequently with occasional overnight stays.
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Must be prepared to work occasionally in harsh site environments e.g. shipyards.