Quality Engineer

**Purpose**:
Provide support to the Manufacturing, Operations Management and all other staff for Quality responsibilities.

**Key Responsibilities: (Key Tasks)**
- Assist with the overall management and development of the Quality function in the KSA.
- Responsible for assisting with product and process quality for the KSA location.
- Deliver a robust, best in class corporate governance, advisory and operational support across the full spectrum of Quality matters.
- Defines and specifies the implementation of standards, methods and procedures for inspection, testing and evaluating the precision, accuracy, and reliability of company products.
- Assist quality team in investigations of non-conformances and customer issues.
- Shape and assist in improving current Quality strategies and policies, systems and procedures whilst ensuring compliance to company policy and regulating authority standards.
- Assist with investigations into incidents and non-compliance issues.
- Ensure effective measurement of safety performance, implementing audits, risk assessments, incident investigations, analysis and the design of corrective action learning processes.
- Handling customer / TPI inspections
- Ensure effective contribution from an HSE perspective in the preparation and presentation of bids and
- Assist in the delivery of companywide Quality policies and procedures, supporting and implementing Group HSE and Q initiatives where required.
- Assist with the coordination of internal Quality audits.
- Ensure that effective auditing tools, processes and resources are in place and are being effectively utilized to support that continuous improvement process.
- Develop reporting/tools in order to track audit findings and to investigate underlying themes and costs.
- Provide management reports which describe and provide measurement of the level of compliance being achieved, together with recommendations and proposed solutions in respect of compliance issues and problems identified.
- Works with high integrity and complies with corporate guidelines on business ethics.

**Accountabilities: (Deliverables)**
- Accounting in line with group requirements and UK/US GAA.
- Manage systems and controls in line with FET policies.
- Group Quality strategies, policies and controls.
- Quality support to the group.
- Implementation of an overall Quality plans and audit schedules.
- Prepare Company Quality reports.
- Reporting of Quality statistics against set objectives and targets.
- Motivate, coach and encourage all personnel in Quality matters.

**Person Specification**:
**Education / Qualifications**:

- Secondary school qualifications.
- Degree or equivalent in Quality discipline.

**Technical Competencies**:

- Details knowledge of the principles and requirements of ISO standards.
- Knowledge and understanding of the principles of APIQ1, API 6D
- Certified Welding / coating inspector.

**Key Skills**:

- Understanding of the health and safety obligations placed on employers under KSA law.
- Good computer literacy in the use of Microsoft Office including Word, Excel, Outlook, Access, Powerpoint and Vision 2000.
- Strong communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Execute accurate Root Cause analysis and deliver findings
- Trained Lead Auditor

**Experience**:

- Extensive management experience in valves manufacturing Quality role.
- Previous experience in a client and supply chain facing role.
- Previous experience of working in a project environment.
- Previous experience of working with low to medium volume production rates in a multi-discipline design, procurement, manufacture and T&C environment.
- Previous experience of multi-discipline manufacturing methods, machining and fabrication processes.
- Previous experience of continual improvement activities such as 5S, Kaizen lean methods etc.
- Previous experience of budgetary approvals

**QHSE Competencies**:

- Maintain behaviour in compliance with FET HSE requirements.
- Maintain responsibility and accountability through personal commitment and behaviour.
- Report any unsafe or environmentally unsound acts and conditions to their immediate Supervisor such that remedial action can be taken to manage the risk.

Application Question(s):

- Must be a Saudi national

**Experience**:

- Valves: 3 years (required)

**Language**:

- arabic (required)