Quality Assurance Manager

Key Tasks And Responsibilities

• Own and maintain the quality assurance framework, minimum requirements and supporting processes for Projects and Fleet operations
• Set clear quality expectations while preserving accountability with the relevant Project, Asset, and functional leaders
• Ensure quality assurance is proportionate to safety criticality, production criticality, consequence of failure, complexity, and supplier performance
• Ensure risk, criticality and lessons learned are appropriately reflected in quality assurance and verification requirements
• Set risk-based assurance requirements for engineering contractors, EPC contractors, yards, suppliers, manufacturers, and critical sub-tier vendors
• Establish the governance framework for vendor and contractor qualification, surveillance, performance monitoring, escalation, and re-evaluation
• Set quality objectives, performance indicators, and reporting requirements
• Monitor quality performance and require escalation, recovery, or enhanced assurance where controls or outcomes are not acceptable
• Lead or contribute to Level 3 investigations of significant quality-related failures, and support Level 2 investigations, ensuring lessons learned are incorporated into the quality management system
• Support Asset Verification, Technical Governance and Technical Assurance activities, to ensure compliance, provide assurance and drive continuous improvement

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in engineering discipline relevant to offshore facilities, marine systems, or project delivery
• Minimum 15 years of relevant experience in offshore Oil and Gas industry or EPC company
• Operational expertise from both project and operations phases of offshore facilities within an Operating Company environment
• Experience in engineering, project delivery, package management, project quality, or a comparable leadership role
• Experience with Safety Critical Elements, Production Critical Elements, equipment criticality, and lifecycle assurance
• Experience across engineering, procurement, fabrication, construction, commissioning, handover, and operations assurance
• Demonstrated experience in vendor and contractor qualification, contracting, surveillance, performance management, and recovery
• Ability to translate technical risk and criticality into practical quality planning, verification, and surveillance requirements
• Experience managing significant quality failures, non-conformities, and corrective improvement
• Working knowledge of ISO 9001 and risk-based quality assurance

Skills

• Familiarity with RAM, SIL, RBI, welding, materials, NDE, mechanical completion, commissioning, or package delivery
• Lead Auditor qualification or equivalent practical audit experience
• Influences senior stakeholders and provides constructive challenge without relying solely on positional authority
• Translates complex technical issues into clear decisions, accountabilities, and practical actions
• Maintains independence and sound judgement while working collaboratively with accountable delivery teams and Technical Authorities
• Focuses on prevention, early intervention, and practical improvement
• Engineering quality assurance, independent technical verification, and delivery governance
• Vendor qualification, supplier quality, manufacturing assurance, and contractor performance recovery
• Risk-based inspection, testing, surveillance, and Factory Acceptance Testing
• Non-conformance, deviation, concession, root cause, and corrective-action management
• Experience supporting incident investigations and root cause analyses
• Fluent in English, oral and written

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

BW Offshore is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all. We believe in fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace and encourage all qualified candidates to apply, regardless of age, gender, disability, religion, or ethnic background.