Project Quality and Risk Engineer

NOV; Glostrup Kommune; On-site; DKK 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

NOV is seeking a Project Quality and Risk Engineer to ensure projects meet quality standards and regulatory requirements while proactively identifying and mitigating risks across the project lifecycle. You will bridge project management, quality assurance, and risk management in an international engineering environment to safeguard performance and reliability.

Based in Denmark, you will collaborate with engineering, procurement, and manufacturing teams, lead risk assessments, develop mitigation

Qualifications

• Bachelor-level or higher engineering degree required.
• Fluent English in written and spoken form.
• Experience in quality, risk, or project engineering in manufacturing/industrial environments.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with internal processes to identify and manage risks.
• Lead risk assessments and mitigation planning for project reliability.
• Support contingency planning and ensure documentation accuracy of risk analyses.
• Develop and implement risk assessment approaches within internal processes.
• Prepare and present risk analysis results to stakeholders.
• Create and maintain mitigation plans and monitor their effectiveness.
• Summarize risk status from a quality perspective in reports.
• Provide training on risk procedures to relevant teams.

Skills

PowerPoint presentations

Fluent English

Education

Degree in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

Ishikawa Diagram

5W2H

5 Why

Pareto chart

PDAC

Control Graphs

Excel

PowerBI

Job description

The Project Quality and Risk Engineer is responsible for ensuring that engineering projects meet defined quality standards and comply with applicable regulations, while proactively identifying, analyzing, and mitigating project risks. This role bridges project management, quality assurance, and risk management to safeguard project performance and reliability.

About The Company

At NOV, we deliver safe, high-quality, technology-driven equipment, services, and support that are essential to the global energy industry. Our mission is simple: we power the industry that powers the world.

At NOV’s business unit Subsea Production Systems (SPS) we empower the energy sector with passion, expertise, and forward-thinking solutions. We develop reliable and efficient subsea energy production products that enhance our customers’ energy portfolios. With strong roots in the offshore oil and gas industry, we are also at the forefront of future technologies such as water treatment, ammonia storage, carbon injection, and wind energy—helping to reduce CO₂ emissions and drive the energy transition.

SPS is headquartered in Brøndby, Denmark, with production sites in Kalundborg (DK), Porto do Acu (Br), Glenrothes (UK) and offices in Stavanger and Oslo (No), Rio de Janeiro ( Br), and Houston (US). Globally, our team includes around 1,500 dedicated professionals, contributing to NOV’s workforce of approximately 34,000 employees.

What We Offer

This role offers the opportunity to build broad expertise across both project quality and risk management in an international engineering and manufacturing environment. You will work with varied projects, each bringing different technical, quality and risk challenges, creating continuous opportunities to learn and develop.

Responsibilities

• Work close and collaborate with all relevant internal process to rise risks and manage them.
• Lead risk assessments to identify potential impacts and threats to NOV’s operation reliability and efficiency.
• Support contingency planning when needed.
• Maintain accurate documentation and up-to-date records of risk analyses, evaluations, and mitigation plans.
• Support to develop and implement a Risk Assessment approach within relevant internal processes.
• Prepare reports and communicate results of risk analyses and mitigation plans to stakeholders.
• Develop controls and monitoring measures and follow-up on the implementation of mitigation plans and its effectiveness.
• Prepare reports and communicate results summarizing risk status from quality perspective.
• Provide training and awareness sessions on risk procedures.

Quality wise

• Perform periodic Quality meetings with customer.
• Perform on Tender Review.
• Perform customer’s requirements review on “Contract Reviews”.
• Perform NCR and QDR management.
• Perform Customer’s satisfaction follow-up.
• Manage and perform Customer’s Internal Quality Audit.
• Prepare and issue Project Quality and Execution Plan (PQEP).
• Collaborate with engineering, procurement, and other relevant processes to integrate quality and risk management into all phases of the project.
• Provide training and awareness sessions on quality procedures.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, quality regulations and standards, industry standards, and company policies.
• Conduct audits and quality checks throughout project phases.

Qualifications

Essential Qualifications

• Degree in Mechanical Engineering or another relevant engineering discipline.
• Relevant professional experience in quality, risk, project engineering or a related engineering environment.
• Experience working within a manufacturing or industrial environment.
• Practical experience on root cause analyses.
• Experience with relevant quality tools, such as Ishikawa Diagram, 5W2H, 5 Why, Pareto chart, PDAC, Control Graphs.
• Experience with risk assessment methodologies and tools, including identifying, evaluating and classifying risks and defining mitigation actions.
• Experience supporting or conducting internal and/or supplier audits.
• Experience with Project Quality Management (meetings with customer, non-conformity treatment).
• Fluent English, both written and spoken.
• Experience on creating PowerPoint presentations
• Experience with Intermediate Excel as minimum

Desired Qualifications

• Certified as Risk Management (CRMP) and/or Project Management Professional (PMP) by Project Management Institute (PMI)
• Valid driving licence, supporting occasional travel to the Kalundborg site.
• Experience on suppliers' management
• Experience on API Q1
• ISO 9001 training - reading and interpretation
• ISO 9001 training - internal auditor
• Experience with statistic tools
• Experience with Dashboards' creation (PowerBI)