Global Quality Control Director (Offshore)

Job Overview: Weatherford have an excellent opportunity for an experienced Global Quality Control Director (Offshore). The position will be based in downtown Houston, Texas. The Global Quality Control Director provides global leadership, strategy, and governance for Quality Control across Weatherford’s Repair & Maintenance (R&M) and Offshore Services Operations. The role establishes and maintains global Quality Control standards, inspection and testing requirements, equipment release controls, measurement systems, and service-readiness processes to ensure products, equipment, and services consistently meet customer, regulatory, industry, and company requirements prior to release or use. Working closely with Quality, Engineering, Operations, Product Lines, and Geozone leadership, the position drives standardization, process discipline, and effective quality controls across the organization. The role is accountable for governing inspection and verification programs, nonconformance and corrective action processes, calibration and measurement systems, quality performance metrics, and continuous improvement initiatives. Through the application of risk-based controls, data-driven decision making, and global quality governance, the Director identifies and mitigates systemic risks, prevents recurring failures, strengthens compliance with the Weatherford Management System and applicable API and ISO standards, and promotes a culture of prevention, operational excellence, and customer satisfaction across all Geozones. Responsibilities: OPERATIONS Global Quality Control Strategy and Governance Maintain the global R&M and Services Operations Quality Control strategy aligned with business priorities. Set global minimum requirements, procedures, tools, records, terminology, and governance. Standardize inspection, testing, status, acceptance, hold-point, release, and readiness practices across Geozones. Control local adaptations for regulatory, customer, technical, or operational needs. Own global Quality Control processes and tools. Lead governance reviews of systemic risk, implementation, control effectiveness, recurring failures, and actions. Inspection, Test and Verification Controls Establish risk-based Inspection and Test Plan requirements with Engineering, Product Lines, Quality Assurance, customers, and technical standards. Define acceptance criteria, critical characteristics, inspection stages, hold and witness points, responsibilities, records, and release authority. Govern required receiving, in-process, final, functional, pressure, and performance inspections and tests. Control nondestructive examination, independent verification, witnessing, and reinspection after correction or rework. Maintain traceable inspection and test status linked to the asset, serial number, work order, traveler, or service record. Standardize reports and objective evidence for independent conformity verification.27 Measurement, Calibration and Test Equipment Govern measuring equipment used to inspect, test, verify, or release R&M and service equipment. Set controls for identification, calibration, traceability, protection, storage, verification, and overdue or out-of-tolerance equipment. Assess affected results when equipment is out of tolerance. Monitor calibration compliance and recurring measurement risks. Ensure measurement capability meets defined tolerances and acceptance criteria. Equipment Release and Service Readiness Establish risk-based release and readiness gates for R&M outputs, service assets, equipment, and records. Define hold, release, exception, and no-go requirements before shipment, mobilization, job start or return to service. Prevent critical-equipment release without complete inspection, testing, calibration, configuration, concession, preservation, and readiness evidence. Require final record review, release status, traceability, equipment identification, and approved exceptions. Convert readiness, operational control, risk, competency, spares, and lessons-learned requirements into verifiable evidence. Monitor releases with open quality-critical items and escalate release-discipline failures. NCR, CPAR and Corrective-Action Effectiveness Govern nonconformance, corrective and preventive action, root cause, containment, disposition, and effectiveness. Ensure timely identification, segregation, control, disposition, reinspection, approval, and closure of nonconforming outputs. Scale root-cause analysis to severity, recurrence, complexity, and customer or operational impact. Address underlying process, system, technical, supplier, competency, or organizational causes - not only defects. Require evidence of action implementation and effectiveness before closure. Govern repeat-failure coding, recurrence reviews, cross-Geozone trends, and systemic-risk escalation. Convert lessons learned into controlled updates to procedures, plans, instructions, training, engineering, supplier controls, and readiness gates. Quality M