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About the Role

Parsons Corporation is seeking a Senior Project Quality Specialist (Saudi National) to join its team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role involves supporting the implementation, monitoring, and continuous improvement of the Project Quality Management System across significant Airport, Infrastructure, and Airfield projects. The specialist will provide dedicated quality support to Engineering, Construction, Procurement, Commissioning, and Project Management teams, ensuring compliance with approved quality requirements, contractual obligations, specifications, standards, and Client expectations. Candidates should possess 5-10 years of relevant experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the implementation and maintenance of the Project Quality Management System (QMS).
• Monitor compliance with the Project Quality Plan, quality procedures, specifications, standards, and contractual requirements.
• Provide specialist quality support to Engineering, Construction, Procurement, Commissioning, and Project Management teams.
• Review project quality procedures, Inspection and Test Plans (ITPs), Method Statements, checklists, and quality-related documentation.
• Ensure quality requirements are clearly defined and incorporated into project execution plans and work packages.
• Conduct quality surveillance and compliance inspections across project activities.
• Monitor the implementation of approved quality procedures by contractors, subcontractors, consultants, and suppliers.
• Review and verify inspection and testing requirements for project works.
• Monitor quality records, inspection reports, test results, material approvals, and other quality documentation.
• Identify quality risks, trends, recurring deficiencies, and potential non-conformances.
• Support the development and implementation of corrective and preventive actions.
• Review Non-Conformance Reports (NCRs), observations, deficiencies, and quality concerns, and monitor their timely closure.
• Perform root cause analysis for significant or recurring quality issues.
• Conduct internal quality audits and support external and Client audits, including preparing audit plans, reports, findings, and follow-up actions.
• Review contractor and subcontractor Quality Management Systems and quality plans.
• Participate in prequalification and quality capability assessments of contractors, suppliers, and subcontractors.
• Coordinate with Document Control to ensure quality records are properly controlled, traceable, and maintained.
• Support quality awareness, training, workshops, and toolbox sessions, promoting a proactive quality culture.
• Support investigation of quality incidents, failures, and major deficiencies.
• Participate in technical and quality review meetings with Client, Consultant, Contractors, and project stakeholders.
• Ensure lessons learned are captured and incorporated into project quality processes.
• Support project handover and closeout by ensuring quality dossiers and records are complete and compliant.

Engineering and Design Quality Oversight

• Review engineering deliverables for compliance with approved quality requirements and project procedures.
• Monitor the implementation of design quality control and checking processes.
• Support audits of Lead Design Consultants and specialist design consultants.
• Monitor design review, checking, verification, and approval processes.
• Track design-related quality comments, observations, and corrective actions.
• Verify that design changes are appropriately reviewed, documented, and controlled.
• Support multidisciplinary design quality reviews and technical audits.
• Monitor compliance of engineering deliverables with applicable codes, standards, Client requirements, and approved design criteria.
• Support the resolution of recurring design quality issues and identify opportunities for process improvement.

Construction Quality Assurance

• Monitor the implementation of construction quality requirements across site activities.
• Conduct surveillance inspections of critical construction activities.
• Review ITPs, Method Statements, Work Inspection Requests (WIRs), Material Inspection Requests (MIRs), testing records, and quality documentation.
• Verify that required inspections and tests are completed before subsequent construction activities proceed.
• Monitor material quality, testing, traceability, storage, and compliance.
• Support the investigation of construction defects and recurring quality issues.
• Monitor NCR trends and contractor performance.
• Coordinate with Construction and QA/QC teams to ensure the timely resolution of quality issues.

Airport, Infrastructure, and Airfield Specifics

• Support quality management across airport terminals, airfield infrastructure, runways, taxiways, aprons, roads, utilities, district cooling, and associated infrastructure works.
• Monitor quality requirements associated with critical airport and airfield systems.
• Support audits and surveillance activities for specialist aviation and infrastructure works.
• Ensure quality requirements for airside and landside works are appropriately implemented.
• Support quality assurance during phased construction and complex interface activities.
• Monitor compliance with project-specific airport, aviation, infrastructure, and authority requirements.

Quality Performance and Reporting

• Develop and maintain quality performance dashboards and reports.
• Monitor key quality indicators, including Non-Conformance Reports (NCRs), observations, audit findings, first-time pass rates, inspection performance, test failures, rework, corrective action closure, and quality trends.
• Identify areas of poor quality performance and recommend improvement initiatives.
• Provide data-driven recommendations to Project Quality Management and senior leadership.
• Prepare weekly and monthly quality reports.
• Support management reviews and quality performance presentations.
• Analyze project quality data to identify trends and opportunities for improvement.
• Provide regular quality performance updates to the Project Quality Manager and Project Management.