Quality Manager

Management of all aspects of quality across assigned business areas, etc. including the supervision of assigned quality resources

Promote the awareness of quality management principles (including quality and MS inductions) and provide advice and guidance to peers and colleagues

Effective quality planning to ensure quality budgets are established, the function is resourced and defined quality deliverables are produced in line with agreed timeframes.

Resourcing of quality professionals with the appropriate quality experience and competencies.

Ensuring direct reports are assessed as being competent for their allocated roles and coaches, mentors and supports the ongoing development of these resources.

Understands and identifies emerging stakeholder requirements and establishes plans to address these.

Ensures requirements of the Sanchez Energy Corporation quality policy, quality standard and agreed objectives are communicated and complied with across the Business unit/grouping.

Implementation of quality management system requirements, ensuring compliance with client requirements and/or ISO 9001 requirements.

Provide support to the generation of proposals and tenders in relation to quality elements.

Quality representative and interface with top management on all quality related matters.

Engages client quality representatives on a regular basis and acts expediently on both positive and negative client feedback.

Oversight, governance and implementation of all applicable quality related tools and applications.

Ensures that sufficient quality processes are deployed to manage product and service delivery.

Management of audit and assurance programmes for their designated business area

Effective supply chain quality management is implemented including vendor capability assessments, performance monitoring and failure investigations

Management, reporting and analysis of data arising from non-conformance, corrective actions and other key quality indicators.

Manages quality management system reviews and their outputs.

Works across functions to identify continuous improvement and sharing of good practice

Undertakes investigations of quality related failures

Actively participates in the wider quality network both offering and taking on good practices.

Requirements

QUALIFICATIONS

Internal: Effective 2-way communicator, comfortable dealing with functional peers, quality network and feeding back to project and senior management on quality performance.

External: develops exemplar relationships suppliers/vendors including third party certification providers; and other Stakeholders, including clients and industry bodies.

LEVEL OF INFLUENCE & DECISION MAKING AUTHORITY

Influence level – High

Decision-making authority - High

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Qualifications:

Degree/Diploma or local equivalent in quality management or related discipline (essential)

Lead Auditor qualification by recognised industry body (essential)

Membership of CQI/ASQ or country specific (desirable)

Formal training in recognised root cause analysis techniques (essential)

Knowledge, skills and experience:

10 + years relevant experience (Preferably in the associated industry).

Comprehensive understanding of ISO 9001, ISO 19011 and Sanchez Energy Corporation auditing protocols

Proficient in the analysis of processes and data

Proficient in Microsoft Office

High level of communication skills in both written and spoken format

Proficient in the use of continual improvement tools and techniques