QC Operations Superintendent

QC Operations Superintendent

The QC Operations Superintendent is responsible for leading daily Quality Control (QC) execution across both shops, ensuring high-quality products meet stringent industry and customer-specific standards. This role requires a strong technical background and proven supervisory experience in oil and gas manufacturing, quality control, or related fields.

• Key Responsibilities:
• Lead daily QC execution, deploying inspectors based on competency, workload, production priorities, technical risk, and customer hold/witness points.
• Ensure effective receiving, first-off, in-process, dimensional, visual, thread, NDE, hardness, pressure test, final inspection, marking, preservation, and release controls.
• Maintain complete material and product traceability, including MTCs, QTCs, heat treatment, mechanical properties, hardness, NDE, dimensions, pressure tests, serialization, and manufacturing records.
• Control measuring, inspection, and test equipment, ensuring only competent and authorized personnel perform inspection, NDE, thread gauging, and product release activities.
• Lead containment of nonconforming or suspect product through identification, segregation, quarantine, affected-quantity assessment, NCR initiation, disposition follow-up, reinspection, and closure.
• Lead evidence-based RCA and corrective action using appropriate methods such as 5 Whys, Fishbone, FMEA, Fault Tree Analysis.
• Prevent release until all required inspection, testing, traceability, documentation, NCR, concession, customer hold-point, and acceptance requirements are complete.
• Support API, Saudi Aramco, customer, licensor, and third-party audits/inspections; develop QC personnel through competency assessment, training, coaching, and reassessment.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, manufacturing, metallurgical, materials, petroleum, quality engineering, or a related technical discipline; extensive directly relevant experience may be considered where formally assessed.
• Minimum 8-10 years of relevant oil and gas manufacturing, quality control, inspection, machining, pressure control, OCTG, or premium-threading experience, preferably including 3-5 years in a supervisory or quality leadership role.
• Required knowledge includes API Q1, applicable API product specifications, drawing interpretation/GD&T, material identification and traceability, MTC/QTC review, NDE, hardness/mechanical testing, pressure testing, thread inspection/gauging, TMMDE control, NCR/RCA/CAPA, and product release.
• Required skills include strong practical knowledge of pressure-controlling/containing/retaining parts; PSL, PR, material class, pressure and temperature ratings; MTC/QTC review; heat treatment; metallurgy; hardness; tensile and impact properties; sour-service requirements; VT, MT, PT, UT and RT; weld inspection; dimensional inspection and GD&T; hydrostatic and gas testing; seal areas and end connectors; API and premium thread inspection and gauging; surface treatment, protectors, handling, and storage.