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About Parsons and the Role

Parsons Corporation is seeking a Project Quality Specialist to join its team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time position is integral to maintaining high standards of quality across various projects, ensuring compliance with established procedures and requirements.

Role Overview

The Project Quality Specialist supports the implementation and monitoring of the Project Quality Management System and Project Quality Plan. This role involves overseeing compliance with approved quality procedures, specifications, standards, and contractual requirements, contributing to the overall quality performance and continuous improvement initiatives within projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the implementation and monitor compliance of the Project Quality Management System and Plan.
• Conduct routine quality inspections, surveillance activities, and quality audits.
• Review Method Statements, Inspection and Test Plans (ITPs), checklists, and quality procedures.
• Monitor Contractor and Subcontractor compliance with approved quality requirements.
• Review Material Inspection Requests (MIRs), Work Inspection Requests (WIRs), test reports, certificates, and quality records.
• Verify that materials, equipment, and workmanship comply with approved requirements.
• Monitor inspection and testing activities, ensuring proper management of Hold Points and Witness Points.
• Identify quality risks, defects, non-conformances, and recurring quality issues.
• Raise, review, and monitor Non-Conformance Reports (NCRs) and quality observations, supporting root cause analysis and corrective/preventive actions.
• Monitor quality performance, identify trends, and prepare weekly and monthly quality reports.
• Participate in Client, Consultant, Contractor, and internal quality inspections and audits.
• Maintain quality registers, inspection records, audit reports, NCR logs, and corrective action trackers.
• Provide technical quality advice to Construction and Engineering teams and support the resolution of construction quality issues.
• Support quality reviews of engineering and design deliverables, track design comments, and monitor implementation of approved design changes.
• Support quality activities across airport terminals, airfield infrastructure, runways, taxiways, aprons, roads, utilities, and MEP systems.
• Monitor key quality indicators such as NCRs, inspection pass rates, test failures, rework, material rejections, and audit findings.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in project quality, QA/QC, quality assurance, or construction quality management.
• Experience on major construction, infrastructure, airport, or multidisciplinary projects is preferred.
• ISO 9001, CQI, or equivalent quality certification is an advantage.

Essential Skills and Knowledge

• Good understanding of construction quality management systems and QA/QC processes.
• Experience with ITPs, Method Statements, WIRs, MIRs, NCRs, inspections, and testing.
• Good understanding of construction materials, workmanship, and inspection requirements.
• Experience working with Contractors, Subcontractors, Consultants, and Client representatives.
• Good knowledge of ISO 9001 quality management principles.
• Experience with quality audits and corrective action management.

Project Focus Areas

This role involves supporting quality activities across diverse project phases, including construction, engineering, and design. Specific focus areas encompass civil, structural, architectural, MEP, infrastructure, and specialist construction activities, particularly within airport and airfield environments. The specialist will ensure project-specific airport, Client, Consultant, authority, and technical requirements are incorporated into quality inspections and support testing, commissioning, and handover quality requirements.