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Project Quality Manager
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Develops and manages project quality plans, liaises with clients and subcontractors, initiates corrective actions, and ensures quality requirements are met across heavy industry and energy EPC projects.
About this role
Project Quality Manager
Trainor is an international consulting firm specialized in heavy industry and energy projects, supporting clients across China and the APAC region. The company delivers high-value expertise in sectors such as oil & gas, refineries, tank farms, fuel storage infrastructure, and large-scale industrial EPC projects.
With a strong focus on technical excellence and project delivery, Trainor Consulting partners with major industrial players to provide engineering consulting, project management, and workforce solutions tailored to complex and capital-intensive environments.
The firm is recognized for its ability to mobilize highly skilled international and local talent, including expatriate technical experts, consultants, and project specialists, to support critical operations and infrastructure development.
- Developing the Project Quality Plans as required by Contract and specifications with the relevant entities, departments and subcontractor(s) involved in the Project.
- Liaising with Client/Customer for the approval of the respective Quality Plans.
- Initiating preventive and corrective actions where potential risk to Quality is foreseen or identified.
- Identifying unique requirements (welding sequences etc.) and/or special processes and/or special control and examination required for any specific activities during the execution of the Project. Subsequent documentation of such requirements through addendum to procedures and/or method statements.
- Interacting with all disciplines in each entity throughout the phases of the Project to ensure that quality requirements are met.
- Interfacing with Procurement and Vendor inspections to ensure that Project Quality requirements are defined and documented in the respective request for Quotes (RFQ’s) and Purchase Orders for the major/critical/other equipment packages. Assist in vendor site inspections and audits as deemed appropriate.
- Reviewing vendor documentation to ensure that all quality requirements are understood
- Issuing, follow - up and close out of nonconformance and/or delivery nonconformance (DNC) reports.
- Liaising with the Client appointed classification Society/Authority.
- Scheduling and organizing the necessary internal audits as deemed appropriate of the relevant internal departments, entities and subcontractor(s) involved in the Project and ensuring that any corrective actions required are completed well within time.
- Participating and coordinating any Client/Customer initiated audits.
- Participating in all Project meetings as required by Project Director/Manager
- Establish KPI’s relevant to the Project complete with measurement / compliance to the indicators.
Qualifications
- Master’s degree preferred for complex offshore projects
- ISO 9001/45001 Lead Auditor certification for quality and environmental management systems
- Fluent English for cross-cultural coordination with global teams; proficiency in Mandarin preferred for local stakeholder engagement
- Strong negotiation skills to balance client expectations, contractor capabilities, and project constraints .
- Advanced Excel and financial modeling ability.
- Excellent reporting and presentation skills.
- Detail-oriented with a proactive mindset.
- Willing to transfer internationally and be prepared to spend extended durations at the various contract work sites
- 10+ years in offshore oil & gas management for EPC projects
Additional Information
Opportunity to participate in major international offshore engineering projects. You can rapidly upgrade professional skills in an efficient team, with competitive salary and promising long-term career prospects.
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