Quality Assurance Coordinator

ASRC Talent Solutions; Alaska; On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

ASRC Talent Solutions seeks a Supplier Quality / QA Coordinator to support the Project Quality Manager in managing procurement quality, supplier quality surveillance, vendor documentation, MRB closeout, audits, NCRs, and QA activities. Anchorage-based with periodic North Slope travel to support site Quality, construction, commissioning, turnover, and closeout.

Responsibilities include early procurement QA involvement, review of POs for quality requirements, coordination with Procurement/Supply

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years of QA/QC or Quality Assurance experience in oil and gas, energy, petrochemical, pipeline, construction, fabrication, or major capital projects.
• Strong experience with procurement quality, supplier quality surveillance, vendor inspection, and MRB documentation.
• Experience reviewing POs, ITPs, Quality Plans, MTRs, NCRs, inspection reports, and vendor documentation.
• Familiarity with ASME, API, ASTM, AWS, ISO 9001, NACE/AMPP, and applicable project specifications.
• Experience with audits, supplier qualification, and corrective action management.

Responsibilities

• Review Purchase Requisitions and procurement packages to determine Quality requirements before PO issuance.
• Provide Quality input to Purchase Orders to ensure inspection, testing, certification, documentation, and surveillance requirements.
• Support implementation of procurement QA gates and MRB/documentation closeout.
• Coordinate with Procurement and Supply Chain to ensure early Quality review.
• Review procurement packages and engineering/EPC contractor documentation.
• Support bid clarification and technical evaluation from a Quality perspective.
• Identify high-risk purchases requiring increased surveillance or inspection.
• Prepare and track Supplier Quality Surveillance requirements.
• Ensure inspection hold points and acceptance criteria are defined.
• Coordinate third-party inspection agencies and vendor inspection activities.
• Track inspection schedules against milestones and review reports and NCRs.
• Monitor inspector performance and supplier quality reporting.
• Support FATs, testing activities, and release inspections as required.
• Ensure unresolved Quality issues are closed before shipment.
• Review and maintain vendor documentation such as Quality Plans, ITPs, MTRs, NCRs, and Certificates of Conformance.

Skills

Procurement quality

Supplier quality surveillance

Quality assurance

NCR management

Audits

Tools

PIMS/Omega 365

SAP

SharePoint

Document control systems

Job description

The Supplier Quality / QA Coordinator will support the Project Quality Manager in managing procurement quality, supplier quality surveillance, vendor documentation, MRB closeout, audits, NCRs, and quality assurance activities. The role is primarily Anchorage based, with periodic travel to the North Slope as required to support site Quality, construction, commissioning, turnover, and documentation closeout.

The position is intended to strengthen the Project’s procurement QA control process by ensuring Quality is involved early in the procurement cycle, before Purchase Orders are issued, and by ensuring supplier quality requirements are properly carried through fabrication, inspection, documentation, receipt, installation, and turnover.The role will interface closely with Quality, Procurement, Supply Chain, Engineering, Construction, Commissioning, Operations, Vendors, EPC/Engineering Contractors, Inspection Agencies, Document Control, and PIMS/CMS teams.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES

• Review Purchase Requisitions, Material Requisitions, technical requisitions, and procurement packages to determine Quality requirements before PO issuance.
• Provide Quality input to Purchase Orders to ensure applicable inspection, testing, certification, documentation, and surveillance requirements are included.
• Support implementation of procurement QA gates, including PR/MR Quality screening, Supplier Quality Surveillance requirement review, PO Quality requirement confirmation, Vendor documentation review, Inspection release verification, and MRB/documentation closeout.
• Coordinate with Procurement and Supply Chain to ensure Quality review is completed early and consistently.
• Review procurement packages issued by Company teams and engineering/EPC contractors where applicable.
• Support bid clarification and technical evaluation from a Quality perspective.
• Identify critical or high-risk purchases requiring increased surveillance, inspection, audit, or Engineering review.
• Escalate procurement packages where Quality requirements are missing, incomplete, or inconsistent.
• Prepare, coordinate, and track Supplier Quality Surveillance requirements.
• Ensure inspection hold points, witness points, review points, acceptance criteria, and documentation requirements are clearly defined.
• Coordinate third-party inspection agencies and vendor inspection activities.
• Track inspection schedules against procurement and fabrication milestones.
• Review inspection reports, surveillance findings, and supplier corrective actions.
• Monitor inspector performance and supplier quality reporting.
• Support FATs, testing activities, and release inspections where required.
• Ensure unresolved Quality issues are closed or formally dispositioned before shipment.
• Review vendor quality documentation, including Quality Plans, Inspection and Test Plans, Welding procedures and qualifications, NDE procedures and reports, Coating and testing records, Material certificates / MTRs, Certificates of Conformance, FAT reports, Inspection release notes, and Manufacturing Record Books / Material Record Books.
• Verify material traceability and compliance with PO, specification, and code requirements.
• Maintain MRB status trackers and drive overdue documentation to closure.
• Coordinate with vendors, Procurement, Engineering, Document Control, and Site Quality to resolve documentation gaps.
• Ensure MRBs are complete and acceptable for construction, commissioning, turnover, and final project closeout.
• Review Quality-related documentation in PIMS Completion Management System.
• Verify that supplier records, MRBs, ITRs, punch records, NCRs, concessions, inspection reports, and closeout documents are properly uploaded and linked.
• Attend PIMS/CMS meetings as required.
• Support reconciliation between vendor documentation, field records, construction records, and PIMS turnover packages.
• Identify missing or incomplete Quality records affecting mechanical completion, commissioning, handover, or Operations acceptance.
• Support documentation closeout and readiness reviews.
• Coordinate supplier and procurement-related NCRs.
• Review NCRs for proper description, disposition, root cause, corrective action, and closure evidence.
• Track NCRs and deficiencies through closure.
• Ensure concessions, deviations, and waivers are properly documented and approved.
• Identify recurring supplier or procurement quality issues.
• Support root cause analysis and corrective action follow-up.
• Escalate significant or overdue Quality issues to the Project Quality Manager.
• Support maintenance and improvement of the Approved Vendor List.
• Review supplier qualification documentation from a Quality perspective.
• Support supplier capability assessments and pre-award Quality reviews.
• Monitor supplier performance, including documentation quality, NCRs, inspection findings, responsiveness, and recurring issues.
• Recommend increased surveillance, audit, restriction, or management review for poor-performing suppliers.
• Support supplier lessons learned and continuous improvement.
• Participate in supplier, contractor, procurement, and project Quality audits.
• Support audits of critical material suppliers, fabrication shops, EPC/engineering contractors, inspection agencies, and project functions.
• Prepare audit checklists and review objective evidence.
• Document audit findings, observations, and improvement actions.
• Track audit actions to closure.
• Support targeted assurance reviews based on project risk, recurring issues, or management direction.
• Assist with continuous improvement initiatives related to procurement QA control, SQS implementation, MRB closeout, and documentation quality.
• Review supplier, contractor, and project procedures as assigned.
• Review ITPs, inspection procedures, welding/NDE procedures, coating procedures, test procedures, preservation procedures, and turnover documentation requirements.
• Verify alignment with project specifications, codes, standards, PO requirements, and Quality Management System requirements.
• Identify inconsistencies between procedures, drawings, specifications, vendor documents, and procurement requirements.
• Coordinate Engineering or SME input where technical review is required.
• Travel to the North Slope when required to support site Quality and assurance activities.
• Support Site QA with supplier-related field issues, documentation gaps, NCRs, material traceability, inspection records, and turnover readiness.
• Verify field conditions against supplier documentation, MRBs, drawings, and PIMS records.
• Assist with construction, commissioning, start-up, and Operations readiness Quality support.
• Support urgent Quality investigations affecting schedule, safety, commissioning, or handover.
• Maintain procurement QA, SQS, inspection, NCR, audit, MRB, and documentation trackers.
• Provide regular updates to the Project Quality Manager on Procurement packages reviewed, SQS status, Vendor inspection status, MRB progress, NCR status and aging, Audit findings and closure, Supplier performance, PIMS/documentation gaps, and High-risk procurement or vendor issues.
• Highlight risks early and recommend actions for prevention or recovery.
• Support AES zero-incident safety culture and assume personal accountability and responsibility for safe work practices in all projects, activities, and operations.
• Other duties will be assigned to this position as needed.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE

• Minimum 7 years of QA/QC or Quality Assurance experience in oil and gas, energy, petrochemical, pipeline, construction, fabrication, or major capital projects
• Strong experience with procurement quality, supplier quality surveillance, vendor inspection, and MRB documentation
• Experience reviewing POs, ITPs, Quality Plans, MTRs, NCRs, inspection reports, and vendor documentation
• Familiarity with ASME, API, ASTM, AWS, ISO 9001, NACE/AMPP, and applicable project specifications
• Experience with audits, supplier qualification, and corrective action management

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE

• Engineering, technical, Quality, or construction-related background
• Experience with PIMS/Omega 365, SAP, SharePoint, document control systems, or similar platforms
• Certifications such as CWI, API, NDE, AMPP/NACE, ISO 9001 Auditor, or equivalent