Associate Director - Quality Assurance
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About the Role
Mace is seeking an Associate Director of Quality Assurance for a large new build airport project in Riyadh. The role involves directing construction inspection programs, enforcing quality standards, and leading a team of inspectors and quality engineers.
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Responsibilities
- Direct the construction inspection programme across all active work packages, ensuring inspections are planned, resourced, and executed to the required frequency and rigor.
- Establish and enforce construction quality standards, codes, and specifications, ensuring full alignment with contract requirements and applicable regulatory/aviation authority standards.
- Lead a team of inspectors and quality engineers, setting inspection protocols, competency requirements, and performance expectations across all disciplines and packages.
- Oversee non conformance management, ensuring timely identification, root cause investigation, corrective action, and closure of quality issues raised in the field.
- Enforce contractor and subcontractor accountability for workmanship, materials compliance, and adherence to approved method statements and inspection test plans (ITPs).
- Chair quality review meetings and inspection escalation forums, reporting on inspection coverage, defect trends, and standards compliance to senior programme leadership.
- Audit contractor quality management systems and site quality control processes, and champion a culture of continuous improvement through training, standards awareness, and lessons learned across site teams.
Requirements
- 20+ years of experience in construction quality, inspection, or standards enforcement, including senior/leadership roles on major capital projects.
- Proven experience on airport, transportation, or other large scale infrastructure programmes, enforcing quality standards and contractor accountability.
- Bachelor’s degree in civil/construction engineering, Construction Management, or a related discipline.
- Experience within a Program Management Office or Business Enablement quality function on a major programme is highly desirable.
- Master's degree in Quality Management preferred.
- Relevant professional certification (e.g., CQI/IRCA, CMQ/OE, or equivalent quality/engineering certification) is advantageous.
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Project Overview
- This is an opportunity to work on a large new build airport, that will set a global benchmark for aviation experience and aims to attract 120 million passengers by 2030 in Saudi Arabia.
You’ll Be Responsible For
- Direct the construction inspection programme across all active work packages, ensuring inspections are planned, resourced, and executed to the required frequency and rigor.
- Establish and enforce construction quality standards, codes, and specifications, ensuring full alignment with contract requirements and applicable regulatory/aviation authority standards.
- Lead a team of inspectors and quality engineers, setting inspection protocols, competency requirements, and performance expectations across all disciplines and packages.
- Oversee non conformance management, ensuring timely identification, root cause investigation, corrective action, and closure of quality issues raised in the field.
- Enforce contractor and subcontractor accountability for workmanship, materials compliance, and adherence to approved method statements and inspection test plans (ITPs).
- Chair quality review meetings and inspection escalation forums, reporting on inspection coverage, defect trends, and standards compliance to senior programme leadership.
- Audit contractor quality management systems and site quality control processes, and champion a culture of continuous improvement through training, standards awareness, and lessons learned across site teams.
You’ll Need To Have
- 20+ years of experience in construction quality, inspection, or standards enforcement, including senior/leadership roles on major capital projects.
- Proven experience on airport, transportation, or other large scale infrastructure programmes, enforcing quality standards and contractor accountability.
- Experience within a Program Management Office or Business Enablement quality function on a major programme is highly desirable.
- Bachelor’s degree in civil/construction engineering, Construction Management, or a related discipline (Master's degree in Quality Management preferred); relevant professional certification (e.g., CQI/IRCA, CMQ/OE, or equivalent quality/engineering certification) is advantageous.
Our Values
- Safety first Going home safe and well: We champion a safe, diverse and inclusive working environment, understanding the importance of wellbeing in every team.
- Client focus Deliver on our promise: We own the quality of deliverables, strategic outcomes and build long term relationships with our clients.
- Integrity Always do the right thing: We influence positive outcomes within our industry, while always aligning with our compliance obligations.
- Create opportunity For our people to excel: We champion a continuous improvement culture throughout all activities, inspiring our people and teams to develop.
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