Quality Management Lead - ISO 9001 & Team Leader (Norway)

NOV; Kristiansand; Hybrid; NOK 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Partly home office

Job summary

NOV is seeking a Quality Management leader to own and drive the established Quality Management System across six Norwegian locations. You will ensure ISO 9001 compliance, collaborate with operations and engineering, and guide continuous improvement initiatives at a leadership level.

The role requires extensive quality assurance experience, strong audit capabilities, and the ability to manage a five-member QA team. Fluency in Norwegian and English with partial remote flexibility are expected.

Qualifications

• Relevant experience in Quality Assurance, Quality Control, or a manufacturing environment.
• Practical working knowledge and understanding of ISO 9001.
• Experience conducting quality audits and managing non-conformances.
• Previous experience leading people and managing a team.
• Fluent Norwegian and conversational English.
• Partly home office.

Responsibilities

• Lead the day-to-day operation and continuous improvement of the Quality Management System.
• Lead, support and develop a team of five Quality Engineers.
• Support continued compliance with ISO 9001 and maintain readiness for certification activities.
• Plan, coordinate and participate in internal audits.
• Manage non-conformances and corrective actions, including root-cause analysis, implementation and follow-up.
• Monitor quality performance and provide relevant KPIs, statistics and reporting to key stakeholders.
• Lead management reviews and communicate QMS performance to management.
• Work closely with operations, engineering and other functions to address quality issues and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Support the effective management of customer complaints, quality risks and Management of Change (MOC) processes.
• Support consistent application of quality systems across manufacturing, equipment repair and service operations at the six Norwegian locations.

Skills

Quality Assurance

Quality Control

Manufacturing

Team Leadership

Auditing

Non-conformances

Education

Degree in Quality/Engineering

Tools

ISO 9001

Job description

NOV is seeking a Quality Management leader to own and drive the established Quality Management System across six Norwegian locations. You will ensure ISO 9001 compliance, collaborate with operations and engineering, and guide continuous improvement initiatives at a leadership level.

The role requires extensive quality assurance experience, strong audit capabilities, and the ability to manage a five-member QA team. Fluency in Norwegian and English with partial remote flexibility are expected.