Claxton Overview

Claxton combines decades of industry experience, proprietary technology, and exceptional service quality to cut through offshore installation and decommissioning complexity. Globally, we partner with operators and key contractors in conventional energy, decommissioning, and offshore wind, delivering certainty when it matters. Our expert teams anticipate challenges, deliver innovative high-performance solutions, and provide responsive, transparent support at every stage - ensuring seamless project execution and enduring value, throughout the asset lifecycle and across the energy transition.

We are looking to source a Quality Engineer on a full time, permanent basis. Based at our facility in Westhill, Aberdeen the Quality Engineer will be responsible for ensuring Quality is effectively monitored, measured, and managed within the business across all processes, procedures, and deliverables. Drive and monitor operational excellence utilising recognised quality methods and practices to improve service quality and customer satisfaction. Support the business with quality queries and requirements in order to meet Customer and business demands. Support the continued development and implementation of an integrated QHSE management system.

Duties & Main Responsibilities

• Assist the business in investigating Customer NCRs, ensuring that responses are timely and actions are closed with evidence documented in the QHSE reporting system.
• Identify, raise, and manage Internal and Vendor NCRs. Log and resolve non-conformances promptly in the QHSE reporting system, overseeing them to a full and complete closure.
• Ensure accurate capture and analysis of cost of poor quality (COPQ) to allow lessons to be learnt and improvements implemented.
• Provide support to all departments for quality queries and deliverables including but not limited to inputs into Customer questionnaires, 'Invitation to Tender's' (ITT's), tendering responses and design reviews.
• Support the business with the understanding, interpretation, and application of client quality requirements and international, quality, technical, material and industry standards.
• Monitor quality standard changes ensuring the business remains compliant with latest versions and releases implemented.
• Oversee compliance of the site to the applicable quality management standards. (ISO 9001 / API Q1/Q2)
• Develop relationships and liaise with Client's representatives and third-party suppliers/inspectors as appropriate.
• Manage customer audits, required serving as the main contact for preparation, coordination, hosting, recording audit findings, and following up on actions until closure.
• Support Supply chain with completion of vendor audits, joining audit teams when more technical criteria are critical and support required - e.g. complex manufacturing or specification requirements.
• Assist in local management system certification audits, including preparation, hosting and sign posting queries to relevant site or global personnel.
• Support in the witness of diagnostic tests and associated test documentation, test charts, compilation of reports, inspection forms and release notes when required.
• Create, implement, and manage the deployment of Quality plans and Quality Inspection and Test Plans (QITPS), ensuring all stages, hold points and requirements are met with sufficient and timely notifications.
• Support QA data pack and MRB preparation processes and personnel to meet customer, project, and business requirements.
• Ensure changes are managed and monitored through to completion, communicating with customers as necessary to ensure compliance with appropriate contract agreements are retained.
• Support and promote a culture of continual improvement across the business, challenging convention and raising and implementing efficiencies.
• Collaborate with other Claxton QHSE functional personnel to promote best practice.