Senior Quality Assurance Quality Control Engineer

About the Role

Craft Group is seeking a Senior QA/QC Engineer for full-time positions on fast-track projects in Al Ula, Al Madinah. This role is critical for ensuring project quality, supporting construction progress, and facilitating handover processes by meticulously tracking and closing all quality-related issues.

Role Purpose

The primary purpose of this role is to manage and ensure the timely resolution of all inspections, consultant comments, Non-Conformance Reports (NCRs), snag lists, and other quality issues. The Senior QA/QC Engineer will be responsible for maintaining project quality standards and contributing to efficient project completion and handover.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage QA/QC activities for the assigned discipline from execution through testing, commissioning, and final handover.
• Maintain a live tracker for all consultant/client comments, including WIR comments, NCRs, site observations, snag lists, and technical remarks.
• Assign comments to the responsible construction team or subcontractor with clear target closure dates.
• Follow up daily on outstanding comments until physical rectification, reinspection, and formal closure are completed.
• Highlight aging and overdue comments and escalate immediately if closure impacts progress, inspections, or handover.
• Verify proper rectification of comments before requesting consultant reinspection.
• Prevent the repetition of previously raised consultant comments.
• Ensure previous inspection comments and prerequisite works are closed before submitting subsequent Work Inspection Requests (WIRs).
• Prepare, submit, and actively follow up on WIRs, Material Inspection Requests (MIRs), inspections, testing records, and QA/QC documentation.
• Ensure inspections are raised on time and works are fully ready before consultant attendance.
• Coordinate directly with Construction, Engineering, MEP, Planning, and subcontractors to resolve quality issues promptly.
• Review approved drawings, specifications, Inspection and Test Plans (ITPs), method statements, and material approvals before execution.
• Minimize Code C/rejected inspections, NCRs, repeated comments, and rework.
• Drive the closure of NCRs, consultant comments, punch lists, and snag lists against agreed weekly targets.
• Support testing & commissioning, as-built records, and handover documentation.
• Attend consultant/client inspections and provide clear technical explanations when required.
• Maintain a strong site presence, including extended working hours or shifts when project priorities demand.

Performance Expectations

Performance will be assessed based on several key metrics, including:

• Number and aging of open consultant comments.
• Weekly consultant-comment closure rate.
• Closure of overdue comments against agreed target dates.
• WIR/MIR approval and turnaround time.
• Reduction of Code C/rejected inspections.
• NCR closure performance.
• Reduction of repeated comments and rework.
• Snag and punch-list closure.
• Inspection readiness versus construction program.
• Testing & Commissioning and handover readiness.
• Achievement of weekly and final project targets.

Qualifications and Requirements

• A minimum of 10 years of experience in a QA/QC Engineer role.
• Demonstrated experience in managing quality for fast-track projects.
• Must be hard-working, disciplined, proactive, technically strong, target-driven, and highly responsive.
• Expected to own the complete closure cycle for every consultant comment: identify, register, assign, follow up, verify, reinspect, and formally close.

Work Type

This is a full-time position based in Al Ula, Al Madinah. Salary details will be discussed during the interview process.