AI summary
Service Quality Manager role focused on building, maintaining, and improving a local Quality Management System and driving incident/non-conformance resolution across service delivery. NOV is an oil & gas services/equipment company. Standout focus is leading audits, root-cause/corrective actions, and quality metrics across assigned facilities and suppliers.
Key skills
Quality Management Systems (QMS)ISO 9001 / ISO 9000 standardsISO 9001 Lead Auditor certificationInternal & external quality audits (ISO 19011)Non-Conformance Report (NCR) managementRoot cause analysis (CAPA)Risk management & quality risk assessmentsJIRA/ITRAX incident trackingJD Edwards (JDE)Microsoft Office (computer literacy)
Salary not listed — comparable Service Quality Manager roles in Conroe/Houston-area oil & gas typically pay about $95k–$135k base, depending on experience and certifications.
You'll thrive here if you’re a structured, customer-focused quality professional who can lead audits and drive corrective actions across service, suppliers, and facilities with minimal supervision.
Why apply
- Lead quality audits and metrics
- Drive QMS improvements across operations
- Work with suppliers and service teams
DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
Quality Management System
- Create, update, and implement local and operations procedures to meet the NOV QMS.
- Maintain industry and NOV QMS knowledge by reviewing new publications and updates.
- Proactively participate in maintaining the QMS system and drive improvement opportunities.
Incident Management
- Report, investigate, and follow up on Non-Conformance Reports (NCRs) across all aspects, including field incidents (JIRA/ITRAX), NCRs related to delivery/suppliers (JDE), and Corrective and Preventive Actions (JDE) resulting from audits, supplier issues, customer concerns, and service delivery.
- Support and create root cause analysis of incidents that require corrective action.
- Ensure that service quality alerts detailing identified issues, associated risks, and recommended corrective actions are created.
- Assist other departments within the organization with customer concerns and feedback, meeting deadlines and delivering results while ensuring efficient and prompt resolution of customer issues.
QMS Implementation
- Facilitate team efforts to establish and monitor customer-supplier relations. Assist in maintaining quality metrics for suppliers, conduct audits, and request waivers
- Ensure that the department's service delivery complies with customer requirements, government legislation, and internal company rules and procedures.
- Manage the internal and external Quality Audits required for your assigned facilities.
- Lead regular internal audit processes according to the established annual plan.
- Lead facility quality meetings reporting the Quality Metrics and Objectives & Targets, ensuring planning and actions are created.
- Follow up on Management of Change for quality aspects and maintain Quality Risk Assessments
General
- Providing training and guidance to the team on quality standards and best practices.
- Execute tasks in compliance with company procedures, processes, HSEQ standards, and best practices.
- Carry out other duties as and when business requirements dictate as may be reasonably expected by the line manager.
SKILLS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
Operating
- Work independently or in a team and support other team members in Service Quality related issues
- Good collaborative skills and high professional motivation
- Ability to work in a structured and independent manner.
- Adept at exercising good judgment, even when faced with incomplete information and tight deadlines
- Able to allocate time effectively to complete tasks.
- Able to define, work within and improve business processes while exercising good judgment based on immediate and future business needs.
Personal and Interpersonal
- A candid team player who collaborates with peers to solve problems
- Imbued with a strong sense of customer focus (internal/external)
- Team player with good communication skills
Desirable
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in engineering or
Associated topics or equivalent experience in a quality management role.
- Master's degree in engineering, risk management, applied data science or similar
- Certification as a ISO9001 Lead Auditor.
Experience
- Previous experience in similar job role
- Experience working with oil & gas quality management systems, such as API Q1 and Q2
- Experience with internal and external audit processes
- Experience with non-conformance management
- Experience in Risk Management
Skills, training, or special knowledge
- Computer literacy, including good knowledge of Microsoft application
- Good communication skills
- Knowledge of ISO9000, ISO9001, ISO9004, ISO19011 and/or other QA standards.
- Training on ISO9000, ISO9001,
ISO9004, ISO19011 and/or other QA
standards
