Quality Operations Technician - Compliance

Mc Dermott; Dubai; On-site; AED 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Mc Dermott is seeking a Quality Operations Technician to support compliance across offshore facilities and vessels, ensuring accurate records and effective corrective actions. You will help maintain inspection documentation, codes, and audit evidence while coordinating with operations and administrative teams.

The role emphasizes ISO 9001/ISM/ISPS readiness and accurate data reporting, contributing to reliable performance and audit preparedness in a challenging energy context.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent is required or preferred.
• Experience in quality operations or offshore facilities is advantageous.
• Strong computer skills for registers and reports.
• Familiarity with ISO 9001/ISO 14001 is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Serve as focal point for supervisors needing current standards and inspection data.
• Maintain quality records, references, codes, and audit evidence.
• Coordinate corrective actions between facilities, vessels, and admin.
• Assist in audit preparation and corrective action closure.

Skills

Quality assurance

Quality operations

Corrective action tracking

Audit preparation

Records management

Education

High school diploma or equivalent qualification

Tools

Measuring instruments

Inspection tools

Document control software

Audit evidence management

Job description

Job Snapshot

Role: Quality Operations Technician - Compliance

Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Industry: Oil and Energy

Function: Quality Assurance

Experience: Relevant quality operations experience preferred

Job Type: Full-time

Job Details

Country: United Arab Emirates

City: Dubai

Industry: Oil and Energy

Function: Quality Assurance

Salary: 5000-7500

Gender: Any

Candidate Nationality: Any

Job Type: Full-time

Context

The Quality Operations Technician supports consistent quality performance across facilities and vessels by maintaining accurate records, coordinating corrective actions, monitoring operational indicators, and helping teams access current technical information. The role serves as a practical link between craft supervisors, operational management, vessels, facilities, and the administrative office. By keeping inspection documentation, registers, codes, audit records, and corrective action information current, the technician helps reduce delays, prevent repeat non‑conformances, improve audit readiness, and support reliable operational decision‑making.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the focal point for craft supervisors requiring current standards, codes, technical publications, inspection tools, and measuring instrument information.
• Ensure inspection forms follow approved standard formats and are completed within the required monthly reporting cycle.
• Maintain accurate quality records, technical references, applicable codes, and operating standards.
• Coordinate between facilities, vessels, and the administrative office regarding corrective action register status.
• Track open corrective actions and support timely follow‑up, evidence collection, and closure.
• Assist in establishing methods for measuring operational non‑conformances and their business impact.
• Record quality‑related disruptions such as production delays, unscheduled helicopter flights, unnecessary vessel movements, and other avoidable operational events.
• Help prepare facilities and vessels for ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISM, and ISPS audits.
• Support corrective action report closure following internal, external, regulatory, or certification audits.
• Act as a central contact for quality issues affecting facility or vessel operations.
• Escalate unresolved quality matters to the appropriate operational or quality management personnel.
• Assist teams in expediting corrective measures for issues that may affect safety, compliance, productivity, or project delivery.
• Collect, verify, and maintain facility and vessel key performance indicator data.
• Help prepare routine quality reports, summaries, registers, and operational performance updates.
• Maintain current registers for ladders, below‑hook lifting devices, corrective actions, employee training, and material safety data sheets.
• Verify that equipment and compliance registers contain complete inspection dates, identification details, status information, and supporting records.
• Support document control activities related to quality procedures, inspection forms, audit evidence, and operational records.
• Ensure obsolete documents and superseded technical references are identified and removed from active use.
• Communicate quality requirements clearly to supervisors, vessel personnel, facility teams, and administrative staff.
• Use established operating and scientific procedures to evaluate routine quality issues and select practical solutions.
• Maintain confidentiality and accuracy when handling audit findings, corrective actions, and operational performance information.
• Promote disciplined record keeping and consistent application of quality procedures across assigned operations.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives by identifying recurring issues, documentation gaps, and preventable operational losses.

Ideal Profile

• High school diploma or equivalent qualification.
• Previous exposure to quality operations, inspection support, marine operations, offshore facilities, fabrication, construction, or energy projects is advantageous.
• Strong computer skills with the ability to maintain registers, reports, audit records, and electronic documentation.
• Good understanding of document control, corrective action tracking, inspection records, and quality reporting.
• Familiarity with ISO 9001 quality management requirements is beneficial.
• Awareness of ISO 14001, ISM Code, and ISPS Code requirements is preferred.
• Ability to evaluate routine operational issues using approved procedures and available technical information.
• Organized and disciplined approach to records, deadlines, follow‑up activities, and compliance documentation.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Effective interpersonal skills for working with supervisors, operational managers, vessel personnel, facility teams, and administrative staff.
• Ability to work independently within established procedures and and
• Careful attention to detail when checking inspection forms, registers, corrective actions, and audit evidence.
• Capacity to manage multiple recurring records and reporting requirements without losing accuracy.
• Professional approach to handling operational problems, confidential information, and cross‑functional coordination.

Skills Set

• Quality assurance
• Quality operations
• Corrective action registers
• Corrective action closure
• Quality record maintenance
• Inspection documentation
• ISO 9001
• ISO 14001
• ISM Code
• ISPS Code
• Audit preparation
• Audit evidence management
• Non‑conformance tracking
• Key performance indicators
• Technical standards
• Codes and publications
• Measuring instruments
• Inspection tools
• Document control
• Equipment registers
• Lifting equipment registers
• Ladder inspection records
• Training registers
• Material safety data sheets
• Vessel quality support
• Facility quality support
• Operational reporting
• Computer applications
• Cross‑functional coordination

Why Join Us

This role offers practical experience in quality operations within a global energy engineering and construction environment. The technician will work closely with facility teams, vessel personnel, supervisors, and quality professionals while gaining exposure to audit preparation, operational compliance, corrective action management, technical standards, and performance measurement. The position provides a solid pathway for development into quality inspection, quality assurance, audit coordination, document control, compliance, or broader project quality roles. Continued demand for reliable quality systems across offshore and onshore energy operations also supports long‑term career value for professionals with strong documentation and compliance skills.