Description

Position description

Job title

Senior Project Assurance & Quality Coordinator * (M/F)

Contract type

Temporary work contract

Contractual hours

Full time

Contract duration

1 year renewable

Job description

SPIE Services Nigeria Limited is looking for profiles to fill the position of Senior Project Assurance & Quality Coordinator.

The incumbent is required to:

Project Assurance Strategy & Governance

• Develop, maintain, and continuously improve the FM&A Projects Assurance and Quality Management Framework.
• Establish project assurance methodologies, review criteria, governance checkpoints, and quality performance standards for all FM&A projects.
• Define assurance priorities, annual assurance plans, and quality objectives aligned with departmental and organizational goals.
• Ensure project governance requirements are embedded throughout project initiation, planning, execution, commissioning, handover, and close-out phases.

Project Reviews & Stage Gate Assurance

• Coordinate project readiness assessments prior to tendering, award, execution, commissioning, and handover.
• Verify that business, technical, cost, schedule, quality, and HSE requirements have been adequately addressed before progression to subsequent project phases.
• Review project execution strategies, project management plans, risk registers, quality plans, and stakeholder engagement plans.
• Issue assurance findings and track closure of identified gaps and recommendations.
• Challenge project teams and contractors where governance, quality, safety, compliance, or value preservation requirements are at risk.

Risk Assessment:

• Lead specific Safety Engineering studies / reviews in support of Request for Modification (RFM) process and Downgraded
  Situations (DGS) - HAZOP, HAZID, BowTie Assessment etc.
• Support operational entities in Derogation preparation.
• Undertake flammable/toxic gas dispersion, fire and explosion consequence modelling using PHAST software, and
  interpret result for safe operation of oil and gas facilities.
• Undertake Safety Integrity Levels (SIL) assessment process and SIL assignment for Safety Instrumented Systems
  within oil and gas facilities.

Portfolio Oversight:

• Identify emerging project risks, trends, recurring failures, and improvement opportunities.
• Ensure lessons learned are captured, shared, and integrated into future project execution practices.
• Conduct site visits to assess workmanship quality, project progress, safety compliance, and overall project execution effectiveness.
• Validate physical progress against approved plans, schedules, and quality requirements.
• Identify project execution risks and escalate concerns to Management when necessary.
• Support internal and external audit activities relating to project management and quality assurance processes.
• Facilitate alignment between project stakeholders on quality expectations and assurance objectives.

Profile

Accountabilities

• Assists in maintaining ISO 14001:2015 and ISO 45001:2015 certifications for company facilities which is a measure of the company's corporate image.
• Develop project assurance dashboards, KPIs, compliance scorecards, and performance reports for Management review.
• Benchmark FM&A project assurance and quality practices against international Oil & Gas, infrastructure, and construction industry standards.
• Drive digitalization and innovative approaches to project assurance, quality monitoring, and project governance.
• Ensure quality and assurance reviews identify conditions that may adversely impact safety, asset integrity, business continuity, or the environment.

HSE Objectives

• Demonstrate visible commitment to HSSE performance targets and principles and promote a culture where no harm to people, assets, or the environment is acceptable
• Integrate HSE considerations into all project assurance and quality management activities.
• Ensure quality and assurance reviews identify conditions that may adversely impact safety, asset integrity, business continuity, or the environment.
• Verify implementation of critical risk controls associated with project activities.
• Support the development of proactive safety and environmental leadership within project teams.

Qualifications / Experience Required

• Bachelor's degree but preferably master's degree in engineering, Project Management, Construction Management, Facilities Management, Business Administration (MBA), or related discipline.
• Professional certifications like PMP, PRINCE2, ISO Lead Auditor, Certified Quality Engineer (CQE) or Certified Project Professional (CCP).
• Minimum of 15 years relevant professional experience, 10 years in project management, project assurance, infrastructure, structural, construction or engineering projects, post NYSC professional work experience.
• Minimum 5 years in a supervisory or management role with demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary teams.
• Proven experience managing multi-location projects within the Oil & Gas, Energy, Infrastructure, Real Estate, Industrial, or EPC sectors.
• Effective oral and written business communications.
• Possess the credibility and independence necessary to challenge project stakeholders when standards, quality requirements, or governance principles are compromised.
• Working experience in SAP PM or other CMMS platform, Building Management System, AutoCAD, MS Office suite, Power Automate and Power Apps.

Working at spie

What can we offer you?

Work for an international Group with operations on every continent,
Experience a wide variety of professions within several activities:

Working in energy and the environment, sectors of the future at the heart of
sustainable development issues.

Position location

Location

Port Harcourt, Nigeria

Candidate criteria

Minimum level of experience required

10 years or more

Required authorisations

Medical Certificate

Languages

English (C-Professional working proficiency)

Our ambition

Combining our differences

At SPIE, we are convinced that the complementarity of profiles creates value. Our Disability and CSR committees, we promote diversity, diversity, intergenerational exchanges, inclusion and job retention for people with disabilities.