I would like to write this post in the English version so everyone will understand my point of view.
First of all, let me introduce you to myself. This is a quick introduction so that you will not think I only can talk without a professional background.
I am Yelna Yuristiary and I was a Master student in Project Management in the Civil Engineering Department at University of Indonesia. I finish my bachelor's degree and master's degree in 5 years by fast-track program. After that, I am working as Asst. Engineer for HSE Management System Developer in Jakarta and as researcher mostly for Investment Analysis project for several infrastructures in Indonesia.
After working in Jakarta, I am going to Batam, as the nearest city to Singapore and I was assigned as QA/QC Manager in an Indonesian company. Even I was assigned as QA/QC Manager, I mostly do the plan and supervise the project at that time. Maybe that project value is around 1.2 million USD. I was handling several projects like that and now I am joining a multi-national company that has Head Quarter Office in Singapore.
So, in this posting, I would like to share with you that Quality Assurance Engineer has an important role in a project. I saw some people think Quality Control is the main key in the project because when you went to the site, you will see the person-in-charge there, and mostly they will do some checking and physical work relating to the projects. But, behind that work, actually, a Project Manager needs to understand well what the Quality Assurance Engineer does. Most of them will work with the documentation process and apply Quality Management systems in a company.
Usually, they will check the quality of the site work based on the document, make sure the procedures going well and understand more about the documentation system. Sometimes, the Quality Assurance Engineer who has good knowledge in a project can identify what's wrong on-site because most of them will read the Project Specification more than site people. Because a Quality Assurance Engineer mostly will develop a Material Quality Plan and Work Quality Plan for the site work. It means, they will re-read things multiple times to understand the specification so that people will know well what is the limit of each work they will do on-site.
Thank you.
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