Director Quality Manager

Location: Kintore

Job Title – Director Quality Global
Location - Kintore

The Director, Global Quality, is responsible for defining, leading, and governing enterprise-wide initiatives that reduce Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ) and improve operational efficiency. This role establishes strategy, standards, and execution frameworks for defect prevention, process capability improvement, and root-cause elimination across all business units and regions.  
The Director, Global Quality leads the development and continuous improvement of the Quality Management System (QMS), fostering a culture of excellence, accountability, and precision across all projects and facilities.

Remit & Responsibilities:

• Lead cross-functional programs that eliminate systemic drivers of scrap, rework, warranty, field failures, compliance deviations, and service defects.

• Deploy standardized problem-solving methodologies and ensure consistent global adoption.

• Build and manage a global COPQ dashboard, ensuring accurate classification, measurement, and financial validation of quality-related losses and trends.

• Partner with Operations, Quality, Engineering, Supply Chain, and Finance to identify high-impact improvement opportunities and prioritize the project portfolio.

• Coordinate implementation and sustainment of operational improvements, ensuring handoff to line ownership.

• Provide expert coaching to site and regional leaders on process improvement tools, statistical analysis, and design-for-quality practices.

• Lead global root-cause investigations for major quality incidents and oversee implementation of sustainable corrective actions.

• Standardize best practices, work processes, use of technology and control plans across sites to improve first-pass yield, reduce variability, and enhance process capability.

• Develop and own the global COPQ reduction strategy, including targets, performance frameworks, and reporting standards.

Job Specific Education Required
Essential:  

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, Metallurgy, Welding Engineering, or related field (Master’s preferred).

• Seasoned professional with progressive experience in welding/fabrication quality management within the energy sector (oil & gas, renewables, or power).

• Extensive experience in global operational excellence, quality systems, or manufacturing/process engineering. Demonstrated success leading large-scale cost-reduction and quality-improvement initiatives. Strong financial acumen with proven ability to quantify and validate COPQ improvements.

• Strong understanding of fabrication documentation control, project QA/QC plans, and supplier quality assurance.

• Excellent leadership, analytical, and communication skills with the ability to influence at all organizational levels across diverse functions, cultures and leadership levels.

Work Experience Required
Essential:  

• Strong technical expertise in energy industry operational requirements, particularly within Oil & Gas, Renewables and Infrastructure sectors.  

Skills & Knowledge Required
Essential:  

• Technical excellence in operations and fabrication processes.

• Strategic leadership with a hands-on approach to problem-solving.

• Strong understanding of international codes, standards, and customer specifications.

• Continuous improvement mindset with a focus on data-driven decision-making.

• Excellent interpersonal skills for cross-functional collaboration and client engagement.

• High ethical standards, safety focus, and commitment to quality integrity.

Requirement to travel  

• Estimated requirement to travel circa 15% of time.

People are our business worldwide

Orion Group was founded in 1987 and is now one of the largest, independent, international recruitment companies. We have a network of 200 employees working from 24 offices, delivering a range of services – Talent Acquisition, Recruitment Outsourcing Services, Retained Search, Global Workforce Solutions, Completions & Commissioning and Materials Management – across 68 countries. As a global leader in workforce solutions, we recruit personnel across the Engineering & Technical, Office & Commercial, Scientific and Skilled Trades disciplines, for sectors including Oil & Gas, Life Science, Power & Utilities, Constructions & Infrastructure, Manufacturing and Renewables