Quality Assurance Controller

**PURPOSE**

This position exists to ensure that products or services consistently meet or exceed customer expectations. By setting clear quality goals, defining criteria, and implementing control measures, organisations can ensure that their offerings are of high quality, reliable, and efficient.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**

**Business /Functional Management**
- Inspecting output samples using industry-appropriate methods, such as comparing to standards, measuring dimensions and examining functionality.
- Checking that the assembly or production line adheres to standards and procedures and complying with legal requirements.
- Reviewing blueprints and specifications to compare to produced goods.

**Financial and Commercial**
- Prepare monthly valuations with the Snr Superintendent / Superintendent, Resident Engineer and/or the client.
- Read blueprints and specifications.
- Recommend adjustments to the assembly or production process.
- Inspect, test, or measure materials.
- Operate electronic inspection equipment and software.

**Risk Management & Compliance, incl. ESG responsibility**
- Identify, analyse and develop responses to commercial risks.
- Perform risk, value management and cost control.
- Ensure all project risks and opportunities relating to their area of responsibility are identified, and mitigating actions implemented and monitored; as well as aligning all stakeholders as is relevant, for their area of responsibility; elevate risks as appropriate.

**Stakeholder Management (internal/ external)**
- Ensure professional interaction with client and all stakeholders, at middle to senior management level.
- Maintain working relationship with head office structures with regards to their function, in support of compliant and profitable project delivery and governance.

**Management Operating System & Reporting**
- Analyse outcomes and write detailed progress reports relating to costs, quantities and production.
- Measure all work done on site daily and compile a month end certificate for submission to the client for payment.
- Quantify work done by abstracting measurements from drawings.
- Quantify work done, but not shown on the contract drawings, by physical measurements on site.

**Technical Management**
- Collect information for the individual tasks, checking and adapt it to the computer system.
- Be aware all the time of any new and up to date computer systems available and acquiring any relevant systems for site use.
- Set up and maintain a Quality and Process Control System as relating to their area of responsibility.

**SHEQ Management**
- Understand the implications of health and safety regulations, and ensure risks are managed as per their area of responsibility.
- Ensure subordinates are compliant to all SHEQ requirements and take corrective action to correct non-conformance.

**Staff Management**
- Guide, lead, and direct subordinate staff so that they are able to achieve the objectives set for them as well as understand and align with the strategic direction and goals of the parent company.
- Monitor and manage performance of subordinate staff in compliance with the Performance Management policy and processes.
- Coach, mentor and develop staff as appropriate to improve performance.

**QUALIFICATIONS**
- BTech or equivalent in Technology/ Quality Assurance
- Certification as quality Engineer, quality auditor, Six Sigma or quality improvement associate

**EXPERIENCE**
- At least 3 years experience in related field

**SKILLS, QUALITIES AND ABILITIES REQUIRED**
- Reading and interpreting engineering drawings and radiographs
- Risk Management
- Time Management
- Problem solving