Quality Auditor

Gas Networks Ireland operates and maintains Ireland’s €2.7bn, 14,664km national gas network, which is considered one of the safest and most modern renewables-ready gas networks in the world.

Over 720,000 Irish homes and businesses trust Ireland’s gas network to provide efficient and reliable energy to meet their heating, cooking, manufacturing and transport needs.

The gas network is the cornerstone of Ireland’s energy system, securely supplying more than 30% of Ireland’s total energy, including 40% of all heating and almost 50% of the country’s electricity generation.

By working to replace natural gas with renewable gases, such as biomethane and green hydrogen, and complementing intermittent renewable electricity, Gas Networks Ireland is supporting Ireland’s journey to a cleaner energy future.

The Role:

The Health, Safety, Quality (HSQ) function within GNI is responsible for the ongoing management and enhancement of the Safety, Quality and Environmental management systems to best in class standards.  This is achieved by focusing on all aspects of occupational and process safety, quality, environmental and risk management.

The HSQ Delivery Team within HSQ is responsible for delivering the HSQ site inspection programme for Construction and Operations/Maintenance Programmes. The overall programme must satisfy the requirements of the GNI HSQE policies whilst being dynamic, risk focused and supporting integration of the various management systems within GNI. The HSQ Delivery team deliver the HSQ performance measurement across GNI and provide reporting and analysis to support HSQ management and the wider GNI business in developing strategies for continuous improvement.

Reporting to the Field Programmes Delivery Manager, this position will involve the performing of site audits/inspections on the work of contractors/GNI personnel, highlighting action areas and liaising with them in terms of quality.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Performing site quality inspections/audits on both contractors and GNI staff
• Liaising with the contractors’ Quality Control function, reviewing their QMS, audit plan, and managing actions arising from their audits
• Liaising with internal GNI Quality Review Groups in relation to quality of site works
• Site auditing of the QMS procedures - this may include follow-up desktop auditing
• Completing audit reports and listing out any audit findings
• Identifying, documenting and driving to effective closure, corrective actions related to non-conformances observed via audit and inspection.
• Working closely with HSQE Delivery Team members to ensure optimised delivery of site inspection programme.
• Other duties as required from time to time.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

• Training and qualification in Gas Siteworks / Distribution / Transmission or relevant discipline essential
• Field Inspection/Supervision experience desirable
• Training and qualification in Safety at work legislation desirable
• Minimum 5 years gas industry experience
• Proven ability to create and develop good working relationships to facilitate the accomplishment of work goals, coupled with the ability to collaborate and gain commitment from others. 
• Experience with identifying improvement opportunities, generating ideas and implementing solutions.
• Have excellent analytical skills and be able to identify and analyse problems and potential improvements, and propose and implement solutions.
• Ability to set up ongoing procedures to collect and review information as needed to be successful in your role.
• Proactively identifying new areas of learning and using newly gained knowledge and skill on the job
• Ability to set own high standards of performance and delivering desired results.

Applications, including current Curriculum Vitae, should be emailed to the following address stating the job title and reference number in the subject line of your email: recruit@gasnetworks.ie

The closing date for receipt of applications for this vacancy is the

8th of July 2024.

Please note that applications submitted after this closing date will not be accepted.

Gas Networks Ireland is an equal opportunities employer
We are committed to providing a diverse and inclusive place of work and have a robust strategy and framework called ibelong to enable this. We are an equal opportunity employer and through our recruitment process we welcome and encourage applications from interested and suitably qualified individuals regardless of gender, age, racial or ethnic origin, membership of the traveller community, religion or beliefs, family or civil status, sexual orientation/gender identity or disability.

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