Quality Engineer

JOB PURPOSE

Responsible for ensuring that the Company's QA Policies & Procedures are correctly

implemented and followed at all times

Description

Maintain Quality System:

• Maintain company's the Quality

Management System at all times and

ensure its implementation in order to

comply with the industries

requirements.

• Develop, establish and implement the

quality management system in

coordination with the management and

all other departments in order to

ensure continual improvements.

• Recommend and initiate continuous

process improvements

• Will be the local recipient, custodian

and controller of know-how and

updated received from TID-KHM. Also

ensures correct implementation of the

know-how in the factory

Responsibilities / Performance

Measures

• Availability of Company Quality

Manual & Quality Policy

• Availability of Process flow

charts & Procedures

• Availability of Quality

Objectives & Work

environment feedback records

for minimum production & QC

processes.

• No. of improvement projects

Company's Accreditations & Product

certifications.

• Ensure maintenance and renewal of

company's Accreditations and product

certifications as required in order to

maintain their continuity

• Availability of List of

Accreditations & its Status.

• Availability of Certificates of

product certifications & other

accreditations.

• Availability of Third party audit

reports(QMS)

• Availability of Product certification

audit reports

Leadership:

• Ensure the effective achievement of QA

departmental objectives through the

leadership of the QA section – setting

individual objectives, managing

performance, developing and motivating

staff, provision of formal and informal

feedback and appraisal – in order to

maximize subordinate and the

performance of the section.

• Individual objectives, training and

development plans in place for all

direct reports within the

timescales defined by the

corporate Performance

Management process.

• Frequency of feedback &

appraisal meetings.

Update National & International standards

within Company:

• Ensure that any changes to National or

International Standards to which the

Company operates are updated as and

when changes are implemented so as to

comply to the latest requirements.

• Availability of List of current

National & International Standards

in use within the company.

• Availability of Standards.

Review and update Assurance

Procedures;

• Renew, update and circulate revisions to

the Quality Assurance Procedures as they

occur through the issuance of controlled

documents in order to ensure that only the

latest documents are in use.

• Availability of QMS Procedures &

its status

• Availability of Document

Transmittal Note

• Availability of List of Controlled

Document & its holders.

Quality Audits:

• Conduct Internal Quality (QMS) Audits,

raise NCR's in case of non-compliance

and ensure their close outs. Prepare

internal audit reports in order to ensure

compliance to requirements

• Availability of Internal Audit

Schedule

• Availability of Internal Audit

Reports

• Availability of Non-conformance

Reports with corrective &

preventive actions.

• Availability of Non-Conformance

Log with status

Training programs & individual

assessment.

• Ensure that training programs are

generated by each department and ensure

that individual assessment are regularly

undertaken and documented so as to

ensure compliance to requirements and to

provide a platform for continuous

improvement of the QMS.

• Availability of Training

Programs/Assessment Records

• Availability of Training

Certificates(external)

• Availability of Training Feedback

records.

SPAN OF COMMUNICATION

Internal:

• Senior, middle & lower level staff and specialist functions.
• General Manager Operations on a weekly basis to report progress versus

departmental targets and to discuss any pertinent issues.

• Liaison with all Managers, Head of Departments & Supervisors to ensure that QA

activity is carried out without disrupting any operational activity.

• Managers, Head of Departments, Supervisors on a weekly basis to report and discuss any pertinent issues.

External:

• Third Party Auditors, Clients representatives and Accreditation bodies

• JOB RELEVANT INFORMATION (BOUNDARIES & DECISION MAKING
  
  AUTHORITY)

• Authorized to issue NCR's in case of non-compliances and ask for corrective

actions.

• The jobholder has a decision-making responsibility as per company's authority

level.

• Freedom given to priorities jobs on the basis of operational need in consultation

with the Plant Manager & GM Operations.

• Freedoms given to define standard working instructions/procedures for all QA

activities but these require approval, GM Operations prior to implementation.

7. QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE, & SKILLS

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors in Engineering / Science

Preferred Experience:

• 3 to 5 years QA Engineer in a medium to large size manufacturing company.

Job-Specific Skills:

• Knowledge of ISO 9001 & company's QA Procedures and requirements.

Additionally, knowledge of API Q1, ISO 14001 / 18001 & OHSAS will be preferred.

• Shall be a certified QMS internal auditor.
• Certification in Statistical Process Control & Six Sigma preferred

8. COMPETENCIES

Core Competencies:

• Self motivated and good listener
• Firm, strict and unbiased Auditor.
• Ability to interact at all levels.
• Diplomatically inclined.

Proficiency in the Arabic language is mandatory

Knowledge of ISO 9001 & company's QA Procedures and requirements.

Additionally, knowledge of API Q1, ISO 14001 / 18001 & OHSAS will be preferred.

• Shall be a certified QMS internal auditor.
• Certification in Statistical Process Control & Six Sigma preferred