Primary Responsibilities

Planning / Start-up / Mobilization

• Develop the project-specific Quality Plan, QA/QC procedures, and Inspection & Test Plans (ITPs), ensuring alignment with client and subcontractors.
• Define inspection points and test requirements with subcontractors.
• Implement the Quality Management System (QMS) and integrate relevant interface partners (e.g., environmental protection, health & safety).
• Plan and participate in audits and assessments, including supplier/subcontractor audits.
• Validate that technical documentation incorporates all quality requirements.
• Ensure quality gates (assurance reviews) are integrated into the master schedule in coordination with the Scheduler.
• Initiate and deliver quality training and awareness sessions for project staff.

Implementation / Construction & Installation

• Support the preparation of technical specifications (RFQs, Statements of Work, etc.).
• Provide guidance to Site Managers and the project team within the field of competence.
• Support the Project Manager in handling customer quality requirements and participate in reviews and status meetings.
• Ensure project execution follows defined processes and guidelines.
• Identify and report quality issues, qualification gaps, and recommend corrective measures.
• Monitor site inspections, testing, and ensure traceability of materials and welds.
• Coordinate with subcontractors for quality compliance and manage non-conformance reporting and corrective actions.
• Draft quality reports in accordance with project quality gates.
• Coordinate with specialists to close punch lists.

Commissioning & Delivery

• Verify completion of test documentation and assemble QA dossiers for final delivery, coordinating with Document Controller and subcontractors.
• Audit system quality handover packages and ensure all quality documentation and as-builts are complete.
• Support client audits and final acceptance, validate test reports and certificates, and oversee the review and acceptance of final quality dossiers.

Leadership & Cross-functional Collaboration

• Lead and/or coordinate the entire project quality team (internal/external).
• Ensure cross-functional cooperation with Procurement, Logistics, R&D, Engineering, Manufacturing, Service, and suppliers to achieve quality business goals.
• Adapt and provide a project-specific management system, including documentation, regulations, methods, and IT tools, following a risk-based approach.
• Ensure professional non-conformance management and drive lessons learned across projects.
• Coach project team members in agile/lean methods and may act as SCRUM master in agile projects.
• Select and implement innovative digital solutions to improve project quality.
• Ensure quality improvement methods (e.g., 8D, RCA, FMEA) and process performance management are applied.
• Contribute to project planning to ensure quality requirements are considered from the sales phase onward.

Site Responsibilities

• Ensure the correct implementation of the company’s quality system on site, based on the approved Quality Plan.
• Ensure compliance with installation and testing procedures at site, warehouses, and other facilities.
• Ensure measuring and testing equipment is functioning, calibrated, and/or verified.
• Verify and ensure proper completion of field quality records (protocols) for installation, testing, inspections, and non-conformities.
• Supervise contractor installation and testing activities, report deviations, and follow up on corrective actions.
• Support field supervisors in quality management matters.
• Conduct inspections/audits of construction, testing activities, and equipment reception, issuing inspection reports.
• Deliver quality training and awareness talks for site personnel.

Authority

• Immediately inform the Construction Manager and Project Manager of serious quality issues and recommend process stoppage if necessary.
• Support the Construction Manager to ensure all quality processes and tests are performed as per contract requirements.