Project Quality Lead

Overview

As Project Quality Lead at Wood in Houston, you will drive the application of quality policies across projects and promote a strong quality culture within a global energy organization. You will oversee QA/QC activities, ensuring Wood standards, project requirements, and cost/schedule targets are met. The role involves coordinating with suppliers, leading audits, and guiding risk mitigation for oil & gas equipment manufacturing. You will collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to deliver safe, compliant, and high-quality subsea projects. This is an opportunity to shape quality delivery across programs in a world-class energy company.

Responsibilities

• Lead QA/QC activities throughout project execution to ensure compliance with project quality requirements and Wood standards
• Develop, maintain, and update the Project Quality Plan (PQP) and related quality documentation
• Review and approve critical project deliverables and supplier documentation (Welding Procedures, NDE, Coatings, ITPs)
• Oversee fabrication, testing, inspection, and monitoring of subsea equipment to client specs
• Coordinate with suppliers to resolve NCRs and follow up on CARs to prevent recurrence
• Conduct project audits and prepare audit reports
• Facilitate Lessons Learned to capture and apply learnings across projects
• Analyze project quality KPIs to drive continuous improvement
• Support tender preparation and proposal development
• Review and comment on supplier documentation and participate in nonconformance management
• Lead and promote a positive Quality culture across the project team and organization

Key requirements

• Bachelor degree
• Minimum 10 years of quality experience in Oil & Gas
• Strong knowledge of ISO 9001, API Q1, and relevant API specs
• Minimum 5 years of equipment manufacturing experience in Oil & Gas
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Self-motivated with solid organizational and time-management abilities
• Proficient with Microsoft Office (Excel, SharePoint, Visio)
• Knowledge of internal and external audit processes including third-party certification audits
• Experience in risk management and cross-functional collaboration

• interpersonal skills
• communication
• influencing stakeholders
• ISO 9001
• API Q1
• API specifications