Senior Project Quality Specialist

Parsons; Saudi Arabia; On-site; SAR 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Parsons is seeking a Senior Project Quality Specialist to join our team and drive quality excellence across complex projects in Saudi Arabia.

You will lead the implementation and continual improvement of the Project Quality Management System (QMS), monitor compliance with quality plans, procedures, and contractual requirements, and support project teams with quality assurance activities throughout design and construction phases.

Qualifications

• Experience implementing and maintaining project quality management systems (QMS).
• Proven ability to monitor compliance with quality plans and contractual requirements.
• Experience performing quality surveillance, audits, and NCR management.

Responsibilities

• Support the implementation and continuous improvement of the Project Quality Management System (QMS).
• Monitor compliance with the Project Quality Plan, procedures, and contractual requirements.
• Provide specialist quality support to engineering, design, construction, procurement, and project teams.
• Review ITPs, method statements, checklists, and inspection requirements.
• Conduct internal quality audits and support client and external audits.
• Develop corrective actions and monitor their effectiveness.

Skills

Quality management

QMS implementation

Audits

Root cause analysis

Stakeholder communication

Job description

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Job Description:

Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Senior Project Quality Specialist to join our team!

What You'll Be Doing

• Support the implementation and continuous improvement of the Project Quality Management System (QMS).
• Monitor compliance with the Project Quality Plan, quality procedures, specifications, standards, and contractual requirements.
• Provide specialist quality support to Engineering, Design, Construction, Procurement, Commissioning, and Project Management teams.
• Review and monitor project quality procedures, Inspection and Test Plans (ITPs), Method Statements, checklists, and inspection requirements.
• Ensure quality requirements are clearly defined and incorporated into project execution strategies and work packages.
• Conduct quality surveillance, inspections, audits, and compliance assessments across project activities.
• Monitor the implementation of approved quality processes by Contractors, Subcontractors, Consultants, and Suppliers.
• Review quality documentation and verify that required inspections and tests are properly planned and executed.
• Monitor quality records, inspection reports, test results, material approvals, certificates, and other quality documentation.
• Identify quality risks, trends, recurring deficiencies, and potential non-conformances.
• Review and monitor Non-Conformance Reports (NCRs), observations, deficiencies, and corrective actions.
• Support root cause analysis for significant and recurring quality issues.
• Develop and monitor corrective and preventive action plans.
• Verify the effectiveness of corrective actions prior to closure.
• Conduct internal quality audits and support Client, Consultant, and external audits.
• Prepare audit plans, checklists, reports, findings, and corrective action trackers.
• Monitor timely closure of audit findings and quality observations.
• Review Contractor and Subcontractor Quality Management Systems and project quality plans.
• Participate in quality assessments of Contractors, Subcontractors, Suppliers, and specialist vendors.
• Review quality-related technical submissions, procedures, inspection plans, and project documentation.
• Monitor quality performance indicators and identify areas requiring improvement.
• Develop quality dashboards, reports, and performance summaries.
• Analyze quality data and trends to identify systemic issues and improvement opportunities.
• Provide regular quality performance updates to the Project Quality Manager and Project Management.
• Support quality awareness programs, training sessions, workshops, and lessons-learned activities.
• Promote a proactive quality culture throughout the project.
• Participate in quality and technical meetings with Client, Consultant, Contractors, and project stakeholders.
• Support investigation of major quality failures, defects, and recurring non-conformances.
• Ensure quality lessons learned are captured, documented, and incorporated into project processes.
• Support project closeout and handover by ensuring quality records and dossiers are complete and compliant.

Engineering & Design Quality Responsibilities

• Monitor implementation of quality assurance processes for engineering and design activities.
• Review engineering and design deliverables for compliance with project quality requirements.
• Support audits of Lead Design Consultants and specialist design consultants.
• Monitor design checking, verification, review, and approval processes.
• Track design quality comments, observations, and corrective actions.
• Verify that design changes are properly reviewed, approved, documented, and controlled.
• Support multidisciplinary design quality reviews and technical audits.
• Monitor compliance of engineering deliverables with applicable codes, standards, Client requirements, and approved design criteria.
• Identify recurring design quality issues and coordinate appropriate corrective and preventive actions.
• Support quality reviews of technical submissions, calculations, specifications, drawings, and engineering deliverables.

Construction Quality Responsibilities

• Monitor implementation of construction quality requirements across site activities.
• Conduct surveillance inspections of critical and high-risk construction activities.
• Review ITPs, Method Statements, WIRs, MIRs, test reports, inspection records, and quality documentation.
• Verify that required inspections and tests are completed before subsequent activities proceed.
• Monitor material approval, delivery, inspection, storage, traceability, and testing.
• Monitor Contractor and Subcontractor QA/QC performance.