Manager, SQS

About us Worley is a global company of energy, chemicals and resources experts headquartered in Australia. We partner with our customers to deliver projects and create value across the life of their assets. We specialize in consulting, engineering, procurement and construction across the project lifecycle, with services extending through to operations and decommissioning. Leveraging extensive experience and AI-enabled delivery, we support customers in navigating complexity as they meet today's needs and transition to more sustainable solutions. Position Overview The Manager, Supplier Quality Surveillance (SQS) provides supplier quality surveillance support to projects and manages a team of SQS Coordinators. The team will typically include 5 to 20 coordinators and may include employees, contractors, or personnel provided by an external service provider. The role facilitates effective implementation of the SQS program in accordance with corporate, location, and project requirements and applicable global service provider agreements. The Manager ensures that product and service verification and surveillance programs are established in a manner consistent with equipment criticality, contractual obligations, and regulatory requirements. The position develops strong working relationships with corporate, location, and project management teams and translates strategic direction into practical plans and implementation activities. Principal Accountabilities Health, Safety and Environment Demonstrate leadership behaviors consistent with duty of care obligations to employees, contractors, suppliers, clients, and the community. Promote safe planning and execution of supplier visits, inspections, factory acceptance tests, and related travel activities. Ensure SQS personnel understand and comply with applicable HSE, site access, regulatory, contractual, and supplier facility requirements. SQS Program Leadership Lead the effective implementation of supplier quality surveillance programs across assigned locations and projects. Ensure surveillance strategies, inspection levels, and verification activities are aligned with equipment criticality assessments and contractual and regulatory obligations. Provide direction for consistent use of the applicable Worley Management and Knowledge System requirements, procedures, templates, systems, and tools. Translate functional and business priorities into tactical SQS plans, resource strategies, and implementation activities. Monitor program effectiveness and initiate corrective or improvement actions where performance, compliance, or project delivery risks are identified. Team Leadership and Competency Manage and direct the work of SQS Coordinators directly or through supervisors and professionals leading others. Establish work priorities, allocate resources, monitor workloads, and provide day-to-day leadership across multiple projects or locations. Ensure SQS Coordination personnel possess the prerequisite technical competencies for the scope of supply they are assigned to verify. Ensure personnel are suitably trained to access and apply the applicable aspects of the Worley Management and Knowledge System. Support recruitment, onboarding, performance development, coaching, succession planning, and knowledge transfer within the SQS team. Resolve resource, performance, and work-priority conflicts in consultation with appropriate project and functional leadership. Project and Procurement Support Provide SQS leadership and technical support during project planning, contracting, procurement, fabrication, delivery, and closeout phases. Guide project teams in establishing supplier quality requirements, surveillance plans, inspection strategies, reporting expectations, and service provider arrangements. Oversee SQS input to criticality assessments, requests for quotation, technical and commercial evaluations, purchase orders, kick-off meetings, inspection and test planning, and supplier performance reviews. Con…

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