About the Role
The Project Quality and Risk Engineer is responsible for ensuring that engineering projects meet defined quality standards and comply with applicable regulations, while proactively identifying, analyzing, and mitigating project risks. This role bridges project management, quality assurance, and risk management to safeguard project performance and reliability.
About the Company
At NOV, we deliver safe, high-quality, technology-driven equipment, services, and support that are essential to the global energy industry. Our mission is simple: we power the industry that powers the world.
At NOV’s business unit Subsea Production Systems (SPS) we empower the energy sector with passion, expertise, and forward-thinking solutions. We develop reliable and efficient subsea energy production products that enhance our customers’ energy portfolios. With strong roots in the offshore oil and gas industry, we are also at the forefront of future technologies such as water treatment, ammonia storage, carbon injection, and wind energy—helping to reduce CO₂ emissions and drive the energy transition.
SPS is headquartered in Brøndby, Denmark, with production sites in Kalundborg (DK), Porto do Acu (Br), Glenrothes (UK) and offices in Stavanger and Oslo (No), Rio de Janeiro ( Br), and Houston (US). Globally, our team includes around 1,500 dedicated professionals, contributing to NOV’s workforce of approximately 34,000 employees.
What We Offer
This role offers the opportunity to build broad expertise across both project quality and risk management in an international engineering and manufacturing environment. You will work with varied projects, each bringing different technical, quality and risk challenges, creating continuous opportunities to learn and develop.
ResponsibilitiesRisk wise
- Work close and collaborate with all relevant internal process to rise risks and manage them.
- Lead risk assessments to identify potential impacts and threats to NOV’s operation reliability and efficiency.
- Support contingency planning when needed.
- Maintain accurate documentation and up-to-date records of risk analyses, evaluations, and mitigation plans.
- Support to develop and implement a Risk Assessment approach within relevant internal processes.
- Prepare reports and communicate results of risk analyses and mitigation plans to stakeholders.
- Develop controls and monitoring measures and follow-up on the implementation of mitigation plans and its effectiveness.
- Prepare reports and communicate results summarizing risk status from quality perspective.
- Provide training and awareness sessions on risk procedures.
Quality wise
- Perform periodic Quality meetings with customer.
- Perform on Tender Review.
- Perform customer’s requirements review on “Contract Reviews”.
- Perform NCR and QDR management.
- Perform Customer’s satisfaction follow-up.
- Manage and perform Customer’s Internal Quality Audit.
- Prepare and issue Project Quality and Execution Plan (PQEP).
- Collaborate with engineering, procurement, and other relevant processes to integrate quality and risk management into all phases of the project.
- Provide training and awareness sessions on quality procedures.
- Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, quality regulations and standards, industry standards, and company policies.
- Conduct audits and quality checks throughout project phases.
Essential Qualifications
- Degree in Mechanical Engineering or another relevant engineering discipline.
- Relevant professional experience in quality, risk, project engineering or a related engineering environment.
- Experience working within a manufacturing or industrial environment.
- Practical experience on root cause analyses.
- Experience with relevant quality tools, such as Ishikawa Diagram, 5W2H, 5 Why, Pareto chart, PDAC, Control Graphs.
- Experience with risk assessment methodologies and tools, including identifying, evaluating and classifying risks and defining mitigation actions.
- Experience supporting or conducting internal and/or supplier audits.
- Experience with Project Quality Management (meetings with customer, non-conformity treatment).
- Fluent English, both written and spoken.
- Experience on creating PowerPoint presentations
- Experience with Intermediate Excel as minimum
Desired Qualifications
- Certified as Risk Management (CRMP) and/or Project Management Professional (PMP) by Project Management Institute (PMI)
- Valid driving licence, supporting occasional travel to the Kalundborg site.
- Experience on suppliers' management
- Experience on API Q1
- ISO 9001 training - reading and interpretation
- ISO 9001 training - internal auditor
- Experience with statistic tools
- Experience with Dashboards' creation (PowerBI)
- Fluency in Danish
Skills Required
- Degree in Mechanical Engineering or another relevant engineering discipline
- Relevant professional experience in quality, risk, project engineering, or a related engineering environment
- Experience working within a manufacturing or industrial environment
- Practical experience with root cause analysis
- Experience with quality tools such as Ishikawa Diagram, 5W2H, 5 Whys, Pareto Chart, PDCA, and Control Charts
- Experience with risk assessment methodologies and tools, including risk identification, evaluation, classification, and mitigation planning
- Experience supporting or conducting internal and/or supplier audits
- Experience with Project Quality Management, including customer meetings and nonconformity treatment
- Fluent English, written and spoken
- Experience creating PowerPoint presentations
- Intermediate Excel proficiency
- Risk Management certification and/or Project Management Professional certification from PMI
- Valid driving licence
- Experience with supplier management
- Experience with API Q1
- ISO 9001 training in reading and interpretation
- ISO 9001 internal auditor training
- Experience with statistical tools
- Experience creating Power BI dashboards
- Fluency in Danish
NOV Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about NOV and has not been reviewed or approved by NOV.
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Healthcare Strength — Company materials describe comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage alongside life/disability insurance, a global EAP, wellness resources, and paid parental leave; the company also states it pays most U.S. health plan premiums, which bolsters perceived value.
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Retirement Support — The 401(k) program features auto‑enrollment, immediate vesting, and ongoing employer contributions; historical filings and comments point to a generally well‑regarded match even as exact formulas can change.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid parental leave and widely cited decent PTO at hire are complemented by options like experience‑based vacation credit and a flexible holiday, creating a rounded time‑off offering in many U.S. roles.
NOV Insights
What We Do
NOV delivers technology-driven solutions to empower the global energy industry. For more than 150 years, NOV has pioneered innovations that enable its customers to safely produce abundant energy while minimizing environmental impact. The energy industry depends on NOV’s deep expertise and technology to continually improve oilfield operations and assist in efforts to advance the energy transition towards a more sustainable future. NOV powers the industry that powers the world.
