QA/QC Engineer

About Decima International

Decima International is a professional services company specializing in project management and controls services. The company serves clients across the United States and the Middle East, aiming to be a premier professional services provider in its engaged industry sectors. This is achieved by approaching each client engagement as a partnership, fostering an environment for talented professionals to flourish, and regulating growth to maintain high service standards.

The Role

Decima International is seeking a QA/QC Engineer to support quality assurance and quality control activities. This full-time position is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, focusing on major mission-critical and data center projects. The role involves ensuring construction activities comply with approved drawings, specifications, procedures, contractual requirements, and applicable quality standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct QA/QC inspections and surveillance activities for assigned construction works.
• Verify compliance of construction activities with approved drawings, project specifications, contractual requirements, method statements, procedures, and quality standards.
• Perform FOK, installation, PUE, and other required project quality inspections.
• Review and monitor contractor Inspection & Test Plans (ITPs), checklists, inspection requests, and supporting quality records.
• Witness inspections and testing activities in accordance with approved ITPs.
• Identify non-conforming work and support the preparation and issuance of Non-Conformance Reports (NCRs).
• Monitor NCRs through corrective action and closure, escalating unresolved or recurring quality issues to the QA/QC Manager.
• Support root cause analysis and implementation of corrective and preventive actions.
• Monitor workmanship, materials, installations, and construction activities for compliance with project requirements.
• Coordinate with contractors, consultants, vendors, discipline engineers, and project teams to resolve quality-related issues.
• Review material inspection requests, work inspection requests, test records, certificates, and related quality documentation.
• Maintain accurate inspection records, quality reports, NCR logs, punch lists, and supporting evidence.
• Support internal and external quality audits and surveillance activities.
• Identify recurring quality issues, trends, and areas of concern, reporting them to the QA/QC Manager.
• Assist in preparing quality KPIs, reports, dashboards, and project quality statistics.
• Support testing, commissioning, punch-list closeout, handover, and final quality documentation.
• Verify completion and availability of quality records required for system and project handover.
• Promote compliance with the Project Quality Management Plan and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.
• Support implementation of the Project Quality Management System across assigned work packages.

Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate will be a driven and detail-oriented professional with hands-on QA/QC experience. This experience should be gained on large-scale construction, infrastructure, EPC, PMC, or mission-critical projects. A practical understanding of ISO 9001, inspection processes, NCRs, quality documentation, and construction quality requirements is essential for this role.

Location

This position is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.