Airswift is seeking a Quality Engineer – FPU & FSO to join a major operator in the offshore oil & gas sector, supporting a large deepwater development project in Mexico on a 2-year assignment (renewable).
This position is part of a Project and will play a key role in ensuring the quality, integrity, and readiness of FPU (Floating Production Unit) and FSO (Floating Storage & Offloading) systems during the execution and handover-to-operations phase.
Location
- Based in Mexico City
- Frequent travel to Tamaulipas
Contract
- 2-year assignment, renewable
- Long-term project with high strategic value
Key Responsibilities
- Review vendor and construction data required for mechanical completion and asset handover.
- Ensure First-Time-Right delivery to Operations, supporting safe and reliable startup.
- Manage the Material Verification Program (MVP) and Project Verification Plans (PVP).
- Coordinate with Process Safety, Reliability & Maintenance, Inspection, Information Management, O&D, and Facilities Engineering teams.
- Oversee verification of Piping, Fittings & Flanges (PFF) with LRQA and QA/QC teams.
- Ensure Build-It-Clean practices and baseline data collection for dry tow, wet tow and transfer to Operations.
- Audit contractors on record-keeping, certificates, and information management.
- Review nonconformities, repairs and participate in RCA.
- Monitor regulatory compliance for Safety Critical Elements (SCE).
- Promote digital data tools (drones, crawlers, ROVs).
- Coordinate lessons learned across FPU, FSO and SURF teams.
Required Qualifications
- Degree in Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related discipline.
- Preferably ASQ Certified Quality Engineer / Reliability Engineer.
- 10+ years of Quality Engineering.
- 5+ years in QA/QC for plant or offshore operations.
- Candidates must be legally eligible to work in Mexico. Local talent is strongly encouraged to apply.
- Native/Fluent Spanish required; English proficiency necessary for technical coordination.
- Experience with: MS Office/360, SharePoint, Omega PIMS, SAP (time writing), Veracity, contractor systems.
This is a full-time onshore position based in Mexico City, working Monday to Friday, with frequent travel to Tamaulipas to support field and project execution activities.