Quality Specialist - QA Engineering

Do you enjoy working cross-functionally to mitigate risks and drive quality excellence throughout the project lifecycle?

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Lufkin Gears is committed to delivering high-quality engineered products that meet stringent technical, contractual, and regulatory requirements. Our Quality function plays a critical role in ensuring product compliance and customer satisfaction across all project phases.

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As a Quality Specialist - QA Engineering - you will be responsible for ensuring that all projects meet technical, normative, and contractual quality requirements. You will act as the key quality interface between internal teams, customers, and suppliers, ensuring compliance, risk mitigation, and high standards of execution throughout the project lifecycle.

As a Quality Specialist - QA Engineering you will be responsible for:

During the commercial phase (Inquiry to Order - ITO):

• Analyzing customer technical specifications, applicable standards, regulatory constraints and contractual quality requirements.

• Identifying quality risks, constraints and impacts associated with customer requirements.

• Providing quality input to the commercial and technical teams to ensure requirements are clearly understood and integrated into the offer.

• Supporting feasibility reviews by highlighting quality, inspection, testing and documentation impacts.

• Contributing to the definition of inspection philosophies, deviations strategy and specific quality deliverables during the quotation phase.

During the execution phase (Order to Remittance - OTR):

• Defining, implement and maintaining the inspection and test plans (ITP)and required certifications in accordance with:

  • Customer contractual requirements

  • Applicable codes, standards and regulations

  • Internal company procedures and quality system requirements

Acting as the main quality interface with customers throughout the project lifecycle, including:

Kick-off meetings

• Quality review meetings

• Factory acceptance tests (FAT) and/or other inspections

• Coordinating and supporting internal stakeholders (engineering, supply chain, production, inspection, testing) to ensure proper execution of quality requirements at all stages of the project.

• Ensuring that all quality activities are planned, executed, monitored and recorded in a timely manner to support the preparation of the final customer quality documentation dossier.

• Monitoring compliance at each key milestone of the project and identify gaps, risks or non-conformities as early as possible.

• Leading the analysis, definition and follow-up of corrective and preventive actions when deviations or non-conformities are detected.

• Verifying the conformity of the product, documentation and records prior to delivery and defining, supervising and validate any actions required to restore compliance.

• Ensuring that quality deliverables are complete, accurate and compliant before product release and shipment

Responsibilities, Authority & Autonomy

Under the responsibility of the Project Quality and Production Control Manager, the Quality Project Manager is:

• Accountable for ensuring compliance of projects with technical, normative, regulatory and contractual requirements throughout the entire project lifecycle.

• Responsible for monitoring and reporting quality risks, deviations and non-conformities, and for proposing and implementing appropriate mitigation actions.

• Authorized to stop or suspend any activity or phase of the project at any moment of the process (engineering, procurement, manufacturing, inspection, testing, documentation or delivery) if:

  • Quality requirements are not met

  • Compliance with applicable standards, regulations or contractual commitments is at risk

  • Product conformity, safety, or customer satisfaction could be compromised

• Empowered to escalate quality issues to management and customers, as per communication policy, when necessary to ensure timely decision-making.

• Autonomously, in decision-making within the defined quality framework to protect product compliance and the company's quality standards.

Fuel your passion

To be successful in this role, you will:

Knowledge

• Read and understand a technical plan

• Very good understanding of the operating principles of a gear machine

• Understanding the principles of organizing a production workshop

• Knowledge of ISO 9001 and 14001 standards and associated documentary systems

• Mastery of the main regulations applicable depending on the country of installation, in particular anti-explosion standards (ATEX / IECEX)

• Knowledge of tools for searching for causes and identifying correct and preventive actions

• Ability to design and lead improvement initiatives

• Proficiency in technical English

Expertise

• Know how to manage multiple activities in parallel according to priorities and emergencies

• Know how to analyze a situation and data to adapt an action plan and achieve objectives

• Know how to follow objectives, check progress, give feedback (positive/negative)

• Know how to present progress and results at all levels of the organization internally or to clients

• Know how to manage a project and lead improvement initiatives

• Know how to define action plans and implement them

• Know how to lead a meeting and write a report

Behavioral Skills

• Be autonomous in decision-making and actions to achieve objectives

• Inform management of problems and risks

• Be pragmatic, factual and analytical

• Knowing how to listen, reformulate and explain, convince

• Know how to establish a climate that encourages communication and the exchange of information

• Demonstrate diplomacy, dynamism, be coherent, logical

• Be rigorous, organized and demanding of yourself

• Know how to collaborate and work as a team

• Be available to your colleagues

QHSE (Quality, Health, Safety & Environment)

• Ensure the application of Quality, Health, Safety and Environment procedures in force.

• Respect and promote the approach in favor of the company's environment.

• Participate in reducing the company's consumption (energy, water, consumables, etc.).

• Reduce the waste emitted within the company, encourage its sorting in order to facilitate its recovery.

• Follow the recommendations for using machines/devices in order to reduce the risk of malfunction and possible releases.

• Respect the rules for using and handling products or substances dangerous to the environment.

• Ensure the maintenance and archiving of quality-related records.

• Facilitate the conduct of internal audits.

• Participate in feedback of information relating to Quality, Hygiene, Safety and Environment issues

Work in a way that works for you

We recognize that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone too. In this role, we can offer the following flexible working patterns:

Working hours - 8 am to 5pm / Onsite 5 days

Working with us

Our people are at the heart of what we do at Baker Hughes. We know we are better whenall ofour people are developed, engaged and able to bring their whole authentic selves to work. We invest in the health and well-being of our workforce, train and reward talent and develop leaders at all levels to bring out the best in each other.

Working for you

Our inventions have revolutionized energy for over a century. But to keep going forward tomorrow, we know wemustpush the boundaries today. We prioritize rewarding those who embrace change with a package that reflects how much we value their input. Join us, and you can expect:

• Contemporary work-life balance policies and wellbeing activities

• Comprehensive private medical care options

• Safety net of life insurance and disability programs

• Tailored financial programs

• Additionalelected or voluntary benefits.

This position requires current work authorization in the country of employment. The employer is unable to provide or continue work authorization sponsorship for this role.

You will be eligible to participate in Company-sponsored benefit programs, including health & welfare programs and the Thrift Plan (401k). You will have a choice of coverage options that best suit your needs. Coverage options and contribution amounts are related to your benefit elections, base salary level, and specific requirements of each of these plans.

This position is eligible for our comprehensive and competitive benefits package, which can be found here, and is further eligible for additional forms of compensation such as bonuses subject to the terms of the applicable benefit plans or policies.