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- Field QHSES Assurance is responsible for conducting independent field-based assurance assessments that provide objective insight into the effectiveness of project controls, leadership oversight, and management system implementation. The role directly contributes to business success by identifying risks before they result in incidents, quality escapes, environmental impacts, security events, regulatory non-compliance, schedule disruption, or reputational damage.
Through independent assurance, risk-based analysis, leadership engagement, and coaching, the position helps improve project performance, strengthen accountability, enhance operational resilience, and support informed leadership decision-making.
The role delivers value by ensuring that management systems are not only compliant on paper but effective in practice, enabling projects to achieve safe, reliable, compliant, and first-time-right.
Our ingenuity fuels daily life.
Together, we've forged some of the most trusted partnerships across the energy value chain to make what was once just an idea a reality: laying subsea infrastructure thousands of feet below sea level, installing platforms hundreds of miles from shore, using our expertise to design and build offshore wind infrastructure, and reshaping the onshore landscape to deliver the energy products the world needs safely and sustainably.
For more than 100 years, we've been making the impossible possible.
Today, we're driving the energy transition with more than 30,000 of the brightest minds across 54 countries.
Essential Qualifications and Education: Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Quality Management, Occupational Health & Safety, Environmental Science, Security Management, Construction Management, or a related technical discipline.
Minimum 10 years of progressive experience in EPC project execution, construction, commissioning, fabrication, quality management, HSE management, auditing, assurance, or operational excellence.
Certified ISO Lead Auditor or equivalent recognized auditing qualification in one or more of the following: ISO 9001ISO 14001ISO 45001ISO/TS 29001 (preferred)Demonstrated experience conducting audits, assessments, inspections, management system reviews, or assurance activities within complex project environments.
Strong understanding of risk management, critical control verification, management systems, incident investigation, CAPA management, assurance frameworks, and Verification of Effectiveness (VOE).Demonstrated ability to coach, challenge, mentor, and influence project leadership, supervisors, contractors, and frontline personnel.
Strong analytical, communication, facilitation, interviewing, reporting, and stakeholder management skills. Experience working within high-hazard construction, offshore, fabrication, commissioning, or energy-sector environments.
Willingness and ability to travel extensively to global project, fabrication yard, offshore, and operational locations.#LI-LJ1Key Tasks and Responsibilities: Execute independent Field QHSES Assurance Assessments across projects, facilities, fabrication yards, and operational sites in accordance with approved assurance plans and business priorities.
Conduct integrated management system and field-based assessments to evaluate the effectiveness of leadership controls, governance arrangements, risk management processes, and QHSES management system implementation.
Independently verify that critical Quality, Health, Safety, Environmental, and Security controls are effectively implemented, understood, and sustained at the point of execution.
Assess the effectiveness of project leadership oversight, workforce engagement, contractor management, supervision, and assurance activities in identifying and managing QHSES risks.
Identify, evaluate, and escalate critical control failures, systemic weaknesses, emerging risks, and weak signals that may impact safety, quality, environmental performance, security, regulatory compliance, cost, schedule, or business reputation.
Provide objective, evidence-based assurance and recommendations to Project Directors, Project Managers, Construction Managers, QHSES Managers, and Operations Leadership regarding the effectiveness of controls, leadership behaviours, and management systems. Verify the effectiveness and sustainability of corrective and preventive actions arising from audits, assessments, incidents, investigations, client findings, and regulatory reviews through Verification of Effectiveness (VOE).Analyse assessment results, incidents, trends, recurring findings, and performance indicators to identify opportunities for risk reduction, continual improvement, and leadership intervention.
Prepare and present assessment reports, executive summaries, assurance insights, and risk-based recommendations to project and business leadership.
Contribute assurance intelligence, lessons learned, recurring themes, and emerging risk insights to management reviews, leadership forums, and business improvement initiatives.
Provide coaching and mentoring to Project Leadership, QHSES teams, supervisors, and frontline personnel to strengthen leadership controls, risk management practices, management system implementation, critical control effectiveness, and sustainable corrective action management.
Promote a learning-focused assurance culture through independent challenge, constructive feedback, leadership engagement, and sharing of lessons learned and best practices across projects and functions. xohmjla Promote compliance with the McDermott Code of Business Conduct and reinforce consistent QHSES leadership expectations across all levels of project execution.
Full timePosting Date: 2026-10-06
Manager QHSES Assurance in Vauxhall employer: McDermott International
At McDermott, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work culture that fosters innovation and collaboration. As a Senior Commercial Specialist, you will be part of a team that drives the energy transition while benefiting from extensive employee growth opportunities and a commitment to professional development. Our hybrid work model and focus on sustainability make McDermott not just a workplace, but a community dedicated to making a meaningful impact in the energy sector.
