Quality Manager​/Engineer

Quality Manager/Engineer

Location:

Houston, TX

The jobholder is responsible for managing the Quality department activities and ensures that the products manufactured and delivered to customer are meeting the customer requirements, legal compliance and pre-determined quality requirements which were set by the company in line with the international standards. Maintain and improve the Quality Management System to ensure that the entity obtains and maintains proper management certification for all facilities, including, but not limited to API Q1 and ISO 9001.

To also ensure that employees perform their tasks to the standards laid down and to ensure that raw materials used to manufacture the products are tested prior to use, measuring instruments used are calibrated and no item of production is passed QC OK unless it fully meets the specifications and quality standards set.

• Ensures that all manufacturing procedures and applicable standards are adhered to at all times and that only approved Raw Materials are used so as to ensure acceptable end products quality.
• Ensures that all manufacturing procedures including testing & calibration and applicable standards are adhered during the manufacturing process at all times to ensure high quality of product.
• Conducts product failure investigation and root cause analysis to avoid recurrence.
• Ensures the resource requirements of the QC Department are met in order for the smooth performance of the department.
• Organizes and supervises the activities and work of a team of subordinates to ensure that all work within a specific area of QC activity is carried out in an efficient and procedurally compliance manner.
• Ensures that all QC Engineer, QC Supervisors, Lab Technicians and QC Inspectors are trained and motivated to perform their roles to the levels of excellence set so as to realize quality products.
• Ensures that the process quality control activities are in compliance with internal and client specification requirements so as to comply with the required control and performance standards.
• Ensures that manufactured or trading good items are inspected / tested and released so as to ensure that compliance to quality standards prior to delivery.
• Ensures that nonconforming manufactured items properly highlighted to responsible departments so corrective action is immediately initiated at all levels to ensure compliance and to minimize loss.
• Ensures that nonconforming purchased materials and products are properly highlighted and communicated to the purchase department to ensure proper communication to the supplier to ensure no loss occurs to the company.
• Maintain the quality management system.
• Develop quality system processes, procedures and work instructions.
• Lead QMS Corrective Action and Preventive Action teams, as required.
• Prepare and maintain quality reports and maintain quality communication boards.

• Act as Management Representative (MR) for external audits of accreditation bodies and client representatives.
• Checks and approves the Quality Assurance Procedures related to Quality Control department in focus of continual improvement, compliance to international standards/codes and local legislative requirements as applicable.
• Ensures that all the Quality Control Procedures are maintained up to date and implemented.
• Maintains full traceability records of all raw materials, and finished goods in order to ensure compliance to the company’s quality standards and requirements and ensures that these records easily retrievable.
• Checks and approves all projects related Quality Control Procedures, ITPs, and Material Pre-Qualification Test Plans.
• Ensures that the project specific Manufacturing Record Books are compiled, reviewed, and submitted to project department on a timely matter.
• Ensures that all the necessary Plant/Project related product qualification tests are conducted and reported in line with the requirements.
• Support the QC Engineer to perform the product qualification tests.
• Monitor the financial performance of the QC section against budgets so that areas of unsatisfactory performance are identified and rectified promptly and…