Quality Assurance Specialist

Your role

The Quality Assurance Specialist/Procurement Quality Assurance Representative "PQAR" reports to the Procurement/Project Quality Assurance Manager. He/She is responsible for:

• Planning, performing and documenting surveillance activities on a supplier by verifying and witnessing/observing their fabrication, inspection and testing and reviewing supporting documentation and records to ensure that specified requirements are met and maintained.
• Leading and conducting of the suppliers' audits as assigned by Procurement QA Manager and monitored by Project QA Manager.

Surveillance Execution Activities:

• Review and become familiar with the pertinent technical and design requirements required to perform Quality Surveillance activities. Information such as, but not restricted to: Technical Specifications; Applicable Codes and Standards; Drawings and related Engineering Documents; and Inspection and Test Plans/ Construction Inspection and Test Plan.
• Preparing and issuing the Surveillance Plan(SP) as per approved Manufacturing Inspection and Test Plans (MITP).
• Performing Quality Surveillance on assigned PO as per approved SP.
• Reviewing, surveying, witnessing, and monitoring the quality of Sub-Contractor's work and reviewing Sub-Contractor's QC inspection results.
• Issue and follow up until closure the Supplier Corrective Action Requests based on the Quality Surveillance findings.
• Liaising with the Engineering during the life of the PO as needed on issues requiring technical interpretation/guidance in the performance of QS activities to confirm acceptability of QA requirements.
• Generate and submit for filing all the records related to the quality surveillance activities (Significant correspondence, QS Plans, QS Records, etc.) in MyTrak or to the applicable software use by the project as document control repository system.
• Issuing Quality Surveillance Report and Quality Assurance Release.
• Maintaining and monitoring the validity of qualification of all suppliers with open PO.

Audits Conducting Activities:

• Preparing and issuing the supplier Audit Plan.
• Conducting the opening and closing audit meetings as well and daily debriefings.
• Preparing and issuing the Audit Report, and populating the audit checklist.
• Raising a Supplier Corrective Action Request SCAR(s) for each audit finding.
• Ensuring that the Approved Suppliers List is updated to reflect the audit results, issuing the Supplier Audit Qualification/Acceptance Letter to the supplier and informing Procurement.