Quality Lead – Major Outage Projects

Lead Quality. Drive Excellence. Power Australia's Future.

We work on challenging and exciting projects that shape the way we evolve, adapt, and transform the industries we work in. We rally together, drawing on the diverse skills across our teams and create environments where great ideas are heard.

This opportunity will see you join a reputable company with a highly experienced team who work together to develop and provide solutions for our customers.

At UGL, we don't just maintain critical infrastructure—we help keep Australia running.

As a trusted partner to some of the world's leading organisations, UGL delivers innovative engineering, maintenance, construction and operational solutions across essential industries. Safety sits at the heart of everything we do, underpinned by our One HSE Culture Framework and a commitment to delivering quality without compromise.

As part of our ongoing partnership with Stanwell Corporation we're seeking an experienced Quality Lead to join our team at Tarong Power Station and play a key role in the successful delivery of a major outage project.

This is an opportunity to take ownership of quality outcomes on a high-profile project, work alongside industry experts, and make a genuine impact on the reliability of critical energy infrastructure.

The Opportunity

As the Quality Lead, you will be responsible for driving the project's quality strategy and ensuring all work is delivered safely, compliantly and in line with client, regulatory and UGL requirements.

You will lead quality assurance and quality control activities across the outage, providing technical leadership, managing inspections and verification processes, overseeing compliance, and promoting a culture where quality is everyone's responsibility.

Working closely with project leadership, supervisors, subcontractors, inspection agencies and client representatives, you will be instrumental in achieving successful outage outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

Quality Assurance & Compliance

• Implement and maintain project quality requirements and systems.
• Ensure compliance with client specifications, contractual obligations and relevant standards.
• Review project scopes and identify quality deliverables and requirements.
• Oversee quality documentation, records management and project traceability systems.
• Investigate quality issues and manage Non-Conformance Reports (NCRs).
• Monitor and report against project quality KPIs.

Inspection, Testing & Verification

• Coordinate inspection, testing and verification activities across the project.
• Ensure Inspection and Test Plans (ITPs) are implemented and completed effectively.
• Liaise with clients, subcontractors and third-party inspection agencies.
• Verify materials, consumables and equipment comply with project requirements.
• Oversee welding, fabrication and metallurgical quality requirements
• Support off-site inspections and witness points as required.

Leadership & Continuous Improvement

• Provide technical quality support and guidance to site teams.
• Assist with workforce competency verification and qualification compliance.
• Conduct audits and assurance activities.
• Deliver quality training and coaching across project teams.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives and best-practice quality outcomes.

Safety Leadership

• Champion and actively promote UGL's One HSE Culture.
• Lead by example in safe work practices and quality behaviours.
• Participate in daily pre-start meetings and site safety initiatives.
• Ensure compliance with safety systems, SWMS, risk assessments and PPE requirements.
• Support incident investigations and continuous improvement initiatives.

About You

You are a quality professional who thrives in technically challenging environments and enjoys leading teams to achieve outstanding results.

Essential Experience

• Relevant Trade Qualification or equivalent industry experience.
• Minimum 3 years' experience in QA/QC leadership or quality management roles.
• Experience within heavy industry, power generation, shutdown maintenance, construction, or outage environments.
• Strong understanding of quality systems, auditing, inspection and compliance processes.
• Experience with piping, pressure equipment and relevant construction standards.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder engagement and reporting skills.

Highly Regarded

• AS1796 Certificate 10.
• AS2214 Welding Supervisor Certification.
• CSWIP 3.1/3.2, AWS, WTIA or equivalent inspection qualifications.
• Experience working with ISO 9001 and ISO 3834 requirements.
• Experience managing quality requirements for welding and pressure equipment projects.

What We're Looking For

We're seeking someone who is:

✅ Safety-focused and quality-driven
✅ Detail-oriented with exceptional problem-solving abilities
✅ Customer-focused and results-driven
✅ Confident managing multiple stakeholders and priorities
✅ Resilient and adaptable in fast-paced outage environments
✅ Passionate about continuous improvement and operational excellence

UGL is well-known and respected for providing end-to-end engineering, construction and maintenance services within, rail and transport, communications and technology systems, oil and gas, power, renewables and resources, water and defence markets. UGL partners with some of the world’s largest blue-chip companies and government agencies, private enterprises and public institutions. We are a member of the CIMIC Group of companies.

At UGL, we value diversity – in the backgrounds, ideas, work styles and perspectives of our team. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and strongly encourage people with disability, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people, mature aged workers and people from culturally diverse backgrounds to apply.

Please note that relevant screening checks will be conducted as part of the recruitment process. These may include a national criminal history check and for you to undergo pre-employment medical assessment including drug and alcohol screen.

If you are confident you have the skills and knowledge to fulfil this role, then please apply now.