Quality Data Analyst

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Quality Data Analyst

Location: Port Harcourt, Rivers
Employment Type: Full-time
Function: Quality Performance, Analytics, and Improvement
Reports to: Quality Manager / Project Controls Manager
Supervises: None

Role Purpose

• Turn inspection, audit, NCR, rework, supplier, completion, and document data into reliable insight that enables project and operations leaders to prioritise risk, improve performance, and prevent recurrence.

Key Responsibilities

• Define quality data requirements, KPI definitions, coding rules, data ownership, reporting frequency, and validation checks.
• Partner with QA/QC and delivery teams to investigate adverse trends and quantify causes, impacts, action effectiveness, and residual risk.
• Automate repeatable data preparation and reporting where practical while retaining transparent, auditable calculations and source links.
• Prepare weekly and monthly quality performance packs, management-review inputs, and concise narratives explaining material changes.
• Consolidate and cleanse data from inspection requests, ITPs, NCRs, audits, weld/NDT registers, coating reports, test packs, supplier records, and handover systems.
• Build and maintain dashboards, scorecards, trend reports, Pareto analyses, ageing reports, and early-warning indicators.
• Validate source-to-report traceability and challenge incomplete, duplicated, inconsistent, or misleading data before publication.
• Analyse defect, rework, repair, overdue action, audit, vendor, and first-pass acceptance trends by discipline, contractor, system, location, and period.
• Maintain controlled master data, reporting templates, quality registers, and lessons-learned datasets with appropriate access and revision control.

Key Performance Measures

• Reports issued accurately and on schedule.
• Source-to-dashboard reconciliation and data completeness.
• Stakeholder use and acceptance of quality insights.
• Actionable trends identified before major impact.
• Reduction in manual reporting effort and duplicate data.

Qualifications and Experience
Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree or HND in Engineering, Quality, Data/Statistics, Information Systems, or a related discipline.
• Excellent data-quality discipline, analytical reasoning, visual communication, and technical writing.
• Strong spreadsheet and dashboard capability; experience with databases, BI tools, or scripting is advantageous.
• Typically 5 or more years of quality, inspection, project-controls, or operational data experience, including at least 2 years of analytics/reporting responsibility.
• Understanding of QA/QC processes, inspection/NCR lifecycles, audit data, completions, and supplier quality.

Preferred Certifications and Standards Knowledge:

• ISO 9001 awareness or auditor training is preferred.
• Quality, data analytics, business intelligence, or statistical certification is advantageous.
• Familiarity with project controls, document management, inspection-management, or completions systems is desirable.

Core Competencies:

• Clear management reporting.
• Trend, Pareto, ageing, and root-cause analysis.
• Auditable reporting automation.
• Quality KPI and dashboard design.
• Data governance and validation.

Reporting and Interfaces

• External interfaces: Clients, contractors, vendors, third-party inspectors, and system/reporting service providers.
• Internal interfaces:Quality, inspection, project controls, engineering, construction, procurement, completions, operations, IT, and document control teams.