Quality Lead

Driving the new subsea era
In August 2022, Aker Solutions entered into an agreement with SLB and Subsea 7 to form a new Joint Venture for subsea. Our Joint Venture came into effect on the 2nd of October 2023 and has been named OneSubsea. 

By forming OneSubsea, SLB, Aker Solutions and Subsea 7 have come together to create the world’s leading subsea technology and solutions provider. We are focused on accelerating innovation to create a step change in subsea production economics and reduce emissions in subsea operations.

The joint venture brings together deep reservoir domain expertise, broad front-end and system design knowledge. We provide an extensive field-proven subsea production and processing technology portfolio, world-class manufacturing scale and capacity, and unique pore-to-process integration capabilities.   

We are now looking for a Quality Lead who wants to strengthen our team and be part of the exciting journey that has just started. 


What will you be doing?

• Demonstrate Leadership for quality and continuous improvement (CI) by personal commitment to Company’s quality and improvements principles contributing to enhance the quality and continuous improvement culture in Moss site.
• Resources; Team leader responsible for quality resources. Assign resources to tasks. Mentor and ensure performance to expectations and compliance to procedures. Develop competence and skills supporting the strategic directions and Performance teams’ accountability. Follow up team personnel.
• Focus on driving the quality mindset and agenda in the Moss site organization, including Lessons Learned (capturing and share best practices across projects/locations).
• Drive Lean deployment as key enabler for waste elimination and CI in projects, at site or in supporting functions.
• Establish and execute site audit plans addressing key project- and site risks.
• Facilitate incident investigations leading to identifications of actions for permanent fix of root causes. Ensure processes to verify implementation and effectiveness of actions taken.
• Drive proactive quality improvement: Monitor KPOs, evaluate audit findings and incident root cause analysis etc. to identify areas of improvement and launch required actions.
• Cooperate with project quality resources delivering Umbilical projects and include them into relevant meetings.
• Ensure that we have the Management system, Management reviews etc. as required.
• Represent Site Quality in client audits.
• Liase with relevant Performance departments in One Subsea.
• Prepare quality input to MOR report for Umbilical Moss.

We think you should have:

Knowledge/skills required:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in engineering or other relevant areas.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in similar quality positions preferably from a manufacturing environment.
• Experience in setting high standards and driving teams to achieve strategic goals.
• Leadership/team management experience.
• Deep understanding of ISO 9001 requirements.
• Experience from improvement positions (Lean, Six Sigma etc.) would be an advantage.
• Excellent communications skills in English.
• Customer-focused and self-driven personality with the ability to make decisions independently.
• High work capacity, drive and engagement for quality with strong people focus

Location: Moss

Applicants need to have valid work permit for Norway.

More reasons to work with us:

• Professional development and excellent career opportunities with the chance to work on a wide variety of projects ranging from oil and gas, renewables (carbon capture, hydrogen, and offshore wind) to aqua culture
• A healthy work-life balance with flexible working conditions throughout the different phases of your life journey
• Competitive pay and benefits with excellent pension and insurance schemes as well as private health services provided by Aker Care
• Access to welfare club with free gym facilities, sports equipment hire and cabins for rent in the mountains and by the sea
• We have offices in Tranby, Fornebu and Ågotnes, during Q1 2024, new headquarter will be Lysaker. We offer hybrid work solutions including the possibility to work from home

Interested? Contact us.

Please contact our recruitment team if you have any questions:
Margareth Back, Senior Advisor, NES Advantage Solutions, mobile: +47 464 11 664




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