Director, Global Quality
Reference: 929861
Location: Kintore, Scotland
Type: Perm, Full-time
Sector: Energy and Infrasturure
Description
Our Client is a leading global expert in the provision of welding and coating services and operates in several jurisdictions around the world.
The Role
The Director, Global Quality, is responsible for defining, leading and governing enterprise-wide initiatives that reduce Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ) and improve operational efficiency. This role establishes strategy, standards, and execution frameworks for defect prevention, process capability improvement and root-cause elimination across all business units and regions.
The Director, Global Quality leads the development and continuous improvement of the Quality Management System (QMS), fostering a culture of excellence, accountability, and precision across all projects and facilities.
Key Responsibilities
Lead cross-functional programs that eliminate systemic drivers of scrap, rework, warranty, field failures, compliance deviations, and service defects.
Deploy standardised problem-solving methodologies and ensure consistent global adoption.
Build and manage a global COPQ dashboard, ensuring accurate classification, measurement and financial validation of quality-related losses and trends.
Partner with Operations, Quality, Engineering, Supply Chain, and Finance to identify high-impact improvement opportunities and prioritise the project portfolio.
Coordinate implementation and sustainment of operational improvements, ensuring handoff to line ownership.
Provide expert coaching to site and regional leaders on process improvement tools, statistical analysis, and design-for-quality practices.
Lead global root-cause investigations for major quality incidents and oversee implementation of sustainable corrective actions.
Standardise best practices, work processes, use of technology and control plans across sites to improve first-pass yield, reduce variability, and enhance process capability.
Develop and own the global COPQ reduction strategy, including targets, performance frameworks and reporting standards.
Key Requirements
Skills & Experience
Job Specific Education Required:
Essential:
Bachelor's degree in engineering, Metallurgy, Welding Engineering, or related field (Master’s preferred).
Experienced professional with progressive experience in welding/fabrication quality management within the energy sector (oil & gas, renewables, or power).
Extensive experience in global operational excellence, quality systems, or manufacturing/process engineering. Demonstrated success leading large-scale cost-reduction and quality-improvement initiatives. Strong financial acumen with proven ability to quantify and validate COPQ improvements.
Strong understanding of fabrication documentation control, project QA/QC plans, and supplier quality assurance.
Excellent leadership, analytical, and communication skills with the ability to influence at all organisational levels across diverse functions, cultures and leadership levels.
Work Experience Required:
Strong technical expertise in energy industry operational requirements, particularly within Oil & Gas, Renewables and Infrastructure sectors.
Skills & Knowledge Required:
Technical excellence in operations and fabrication processes.
Strategic leadership with a hands-on approach to problem-solving.
Strong understanding of international codes, standards, and customer specifications.
Continuous improvement mindset with a focus on data-driven decision-making.
Excellent interpersonal skills for cross-functional collaboration and client engagement.
High ethical standards, safety focus, and commitment to quality integrity.
Requirement to travel
Estimated requirement to travel circa 15% of time.
Due to current workloads, Simpson Booth regrets to inform that in the instance you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of your application, you are to consider your application unsuccessful at this time.