Quality Engineer

JOB PURPOSE

Responsible for ensuring that the Company’s QA Policies & Procedures are correctly
implemented and followed at all times

Description Maintain Quality System:

• Maintain company’s the Quality

Management System at all times and
ensure its implementation in order to
comply with the industries
requirements.

• Develop, establish and implement the

quality management system in
coordination with the management and
all other departments in order to
ensure continual improvements.

• Recommend and initiate continuous

process improvements

• Will be the local recipient, custodian

and controller of know-how and
updated received from TID-KHM. Also
ensures correct implementation of the
know-how in the factory Responsibilities / Performance
Measures

• Availability of Company Quality

Manual & Quality Policy

• Availability of Process flow

charts & Procedures

• Availability of Quality

Objectives & Work
environment feedback records
for minimum production & QC
processes.

• No. of improvement projects

Company’s Accreditations & Product
certifications.

• Ensure maintenance and renewal of

company’s Accreditations and product
certifications as required in order to
maintain their continuity

• Availability of List of

Accreditations & its Status.

• Availability of Certificates of

product certifications & other
accreditations.

• Availability of Third party audit

reports(QMS)

• Availability of Product certification

audit reports Leadership:

• Ensure the effective achievement of QA

departmental objectives through the
leadership of the QA section – setting
individual objectives, managing
performance, developing and motivating
staff, provision of formal and informal
feedback and appraisal – in order to
maximize subordinate and the
performance of the section

• Individual objectives, training and

development plans in place for all
direct reports within the
timescales defined by the
corporate Performance
Management process.

• Frequency of feedback &

appraisal meetings. Update National & International standards
within Company:

• Ensure that any changes to National or

International Standards to which the
Company operates are updated as and
when changes are implemented so as to
comply to the latest requirements

• Availability of List of current

National & International Standards
in use within the company.

• Availability of Standards.

Review and update Assurance
Procedures;

• Renew, update and circulate revisions to

the Quality Assurance Procedures as they
occur through the issuance of controlled
documents in order to ensure that only the
latest documents are in use

• Availability of QMS Procedures &

its status

• Availability of Document

Transmittal Note

• Availability of List of Controlled

Document & its holders. Quality Audits:

• Conduct Internal Quality (QMS) Audits,

raise NCR’s in case of non-compliance
and ensure their close outs. Prepare
internal audit reports in order to ensure
compliance to requirements

• Availability of Internal Audit

Schedule

• Availability of Internal Audit

Reports

• Availability of Non-conformance

Reports with corrective &
preventive actions.

• Availability of Non-Conformance

Log with status Training programs & individual
assessment.

• Ensure that training programs are

generated by each department and ensure
that individual assessment are regularly
undertaken and documented so as to
ensure compliance to requirements and to
provide a platform for continuous
improvement of the QMS

• Availability of Training

Programs/Assessment Records

• Availability of Training

Certificates(external)

• Availability of Training Feedback

records. SPAN OF COMMUNICATION
Internal:

• Senior, middle & lower level staff and specialist functions.
• General Manager Operations on a weekly basis to report progress versus

departmental targets and to discuss any pertinent issues.

• Liaison with all Managers, Head of Departments & Supervisors to ensure that QA

activity is carried out without disrupting any operational activity.

• Managers, Head of Departments, Supervisors on a weekly basis to report and discuss any pertinent issues.

External:

• Third Party Auditors, Clients representatives and Accreditation bodies

6. JOB RELEVANT INFORMATION (BOUNDARIES & DECISION MAKING
AUTHORITY)

• Authorized to issue NCR’s in case of non-compliances and ask for corrective

actions.

• The jobholder has a decision-making responsibility as per company’s authority

level.

• Freedom given to priorities jobs on the basis of operational need in consultation

with the Plant Manager & GM Operations.

• Freedoms given to define standard working instructions/procedures for all QA

activities but these require approval, GM Operations prior to implementation.
7. QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE, & SKILLS
Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors in Engineering / Science

Preferred Experience:

• 3 to 5 years QA Engineer in a medium to large size manufacturing company.

Job-Specific Skills:

• Knowledge of ISO 9001 & company’s QA Procedures and requirements.

Additionally, knowledge of API Q1, ISO 14001 / 18001 & OHSAS will be preferred.

• Shall be a certified QMS internal auditor.
• Certification in Statistical Process Control & Six Sigma preferred

8. COMPETENCIES
Core Competencies:

• Self motivated and good listener
• Firm, strict and unbiased Auditor.
• Ability to interact at all levels.
• Diplomatically inclined.

Skills

Proficiency in the Arabic language is mandatory Knowledge of ISO 9001 & company’s QA Procedures and requirements.
Additionally, knowledge of API Q1, ISO 14001 / 18001 & OHSAS will be preferred.

• Shall be a certified QMS internal auditor.
• Certification in Statistical Process Control & Six Sigma preferred