Director Quality Manager

Job Title – Director Quality Global Location - Kintore 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.  Remit & Responsibilities:  •    Lead cross-functional programs that eliminate systemic drivers of scrap, rework, warranty, field failures, compliance deviations, and service defects.  •    Deploy standardized 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 prioritize 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.  •    Standardize 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.  Job Specific Education Required Essential:   •    Bachelor's degree in engineering, Metallurgy, Welding Engineering, or related field (Master’s preferred). •    Seasoned 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 organizational levels across diverse functions, cultures and leadership levels.  Work Experience Required Essential:   •    Strong technical expertise in energy industry operational requirements, particularly within Oil & Gas, Renewables and Infrastructure sectors.   Skills & Knowledge Required Essential:   •    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. People are our business worldwide   Orion Group was founded in 1987 and is now one of the largest, independent, international recruitment companies. We have a network of 200 employees working from 24 offices, delivering a range of services – Talent Acquisition, Recruitment Outsourcing Services, Retained Search, Global Workforce Solutions, Completions & Commissioning and Materials Management – across 68 countries. As a global leader in workforce solutions, we recruit personnel across the Engineering & Technical, Office & Commercial, Scientific and Skilled Trades disciplines, for sectors including Oil & Gas, Life Science, Power & Utilities, Constructions & Infrastructure, Manufacturing and Renewables