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Job Title: QA/QC Lead

Location: Kitimat, BC

Length: 14-Month Contract to start (Dec 2025)

Rotation: Mon-Fri, 8hr days

Description:

The Quality Assurance & Control focal point is accountable for the overall Quality Assurance and Quality Control. He / She is responsible for the coordination of the implementation of the Flawless Process in delivering a Flawless Events to the organization.

This key role is for an experienced individual to coordinate the overall Flawless Process. This process includes the identification of flaws, defining their risk profile, and ensuring appropriate mitigation plans are developed and implemented. To successfully deliver, the Flawless Coordinator will interface with various disciplines (mechanical, instrumentation, rotating, etc.) to ensure the flaw identification is comprehensive and that mitigation activities are defined and implemented.

In the execution of an event, the QA/QC focal point:

Oversees the event’s Quality Management Plan and the system turnover activities.

Accountabilities:

• Develop quality auditing plans for Construction and Maintenance Contractors.
• Define, maintain, and report on Quality Key Performance Indicators for the client and Contractors.
• Development and Implement of a Quality Management Plan for projects and Turnarounds.
• Work with Flange management lead to ensure QA on critical flanges, and QA checks on contractors in the field.

Brownfield and Turnarounds:

• Review of Contractor ITP’s, witness at hold points, ensuring the weld procedures are reviewed/approved for all construction and fabrication activities for both turnsounds and brownfield projects.
• Oversee directly or indirectly the activities of contractors to ensure the performed work by the contractors meets the requirements set in drawings, specifications, and contract documents through inspection and test plans (ITP)
• Monitor the contractor's quality control program and its associated records (e.g. inspection request packages; pressure test packages; welders, NDT Technicians, and other trades qualifications records; calibration records for tools and instruments used for inspections; progression of As-built redline drawings) throughout construction. Reports deficiencies to construction manager.
• Audit contractors QMP

Procurement

• Support the Procurement team by interface with contract inspectors performing inspections on the clients behalf in remote locations (valves for example).
• Quality assurance of material receiving process, traceability and spot QC of critical material receiving Equipment Integrity
• As the Owner’s inspector coordinate turnover process/ Mechanical completions and approve turn over packages.
• Ensure joint inspection procedure is followed.
• Ensure closure of all non-conformances and deficiencies for the contracts and/or event.

Skills & Requirements:

• 10+ years industry experience in Oil and Gas with a minimum of 5 years managing Quality Assurance, Flawless programs or system turnover
• Preferably with an engineering degree but a diploma in mechanical or technology will be considered.
• Experience in Turnaround and Routine Maintenance Preparation, Execution and Completions (handover).
• Prior experience working in the capacity of a construction QA/QC coordinator on industrial projects; preference is given to chemical, hydrometallurgy, petrochemical, or heavy industrial experience.
• Strong organizational and analytical skills
• Computer literate - Microsoft applications
• Good communication skills both written and verbal in English
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy
• Diagnostic and problem-solving skills.
• Stakeholder Engagements
• Can manage evolving priorities and deliver on multiple commitments in a timely manner.
• Can effectively pull groups together and coordinate action plans to drive resolution.
• Competency Assurance
• Experienced with work platforms such as Microsoft Office – Excel, Word etc.
• Fluent in English
• Skill in interpreting discipline relevant technical documentation.

Dimensions:

• Support the client’s organization; Maintenance, Turnaround, Ops, Engineering, Technology, Brownfield Projects, HSSE within their specified disciplines
• Reports to the Turnaround block coordinators.
• Work closely with the contractor and/or execution team

Primary Interactions

• Interacts with Internal Stakeholders, Vendors, other Departments and Function Leaders.
• Provide updates to Supervisor and Internal Stakeholders.
• Discipline Engineers and Technologists
• Maintenance Team Leads
• Brownfield Project Engineers
• Integrity team leads
• Craft Team Members
• Specialists
• Vendors
• Co-workers

Apply here or send your resume to trevor.parlee@nesfircroft.com