HRSG Inspector

Job Title: HRSG/ Boiler Technical Field Advisor

- Start Date ASAP

- Pay Weekly

- Mobilization and Demobilization Package

- Project duration: 4 months +

- Comprehensive benefits package

Job Description:

To act as the technical authority in the field for Heat Recovery Steam Generators (HRSG) and Boilers on multiple power generation facilities:

- Inspect the HRSG internally and externally

- Identify damage, degradation, or design-related risks

- Advise the owner/operator on condition, severity, and next steps

- Document everything in a defensible technical report

Before the inspection:

- Review design docs & history

- Original Babcock Power drawings

- Prior inspection reports

- Operating history (starts, cycling, duct firing, bypass use)

- Known fleet issues (FAC, thermal fatigue, flow-accelerated corrosion, etc.)

Plan the crawl:

- Access points, confined space needs

- Which pressure parts must be entered

- Safety coordination with plant & contractors

On-site: HRSG inspections & boiler crawls

- External inspections, HRSG casing, expansion joints, ductwork, stack, diverter/bypass damper interfaces, piping supports and thermal growth issues, evidence of gas path leakage or insulation breakdown, internal inspections (boiler crawls), evaporator, superheater, reheater tubes, tube bowing, cracking, thinning, evidence of flow issues or overheating, headers, ligament cracking, nozzle cracking, weld condition, drums, internal corrosion, baffle condition, steam separation hardware, gas-side components, fin damage or fouling, ash or deposit buildup, evidence of flame impingement (if duct-fired), supports & restraints, broken or missing hardware, thermal growth interference, mark locations for NDE (UT, PT, MT), take detailed photos with scale references, and sketch damage locations tied to drawing callouts.

Field technical advisor responsibilities:

- Interpret all possible faults

- Advise in real time

- Interface with plant staff.

- Writing the inspection report

Qualifications:

- Must have extensive mechanical knowledge of both HRSGs & boilers.

- Must be willing to travel from site to site to conduct inspections.

- Must be authorized to work in the US.

Job Purpose:

The Mechanical Technical Field Advisor (“MTFA”) is generally responsible for planning, coordinating and ensuring safe and orderly progress of work assigned to pre-commissioning, commissioning, testing and initial operations of systems and equipment as are placed under his/her care by the Project Manager (“PM”).

Main Job Function:

- Submit such periodic progress and planning reports as may be required by the PM, ensuring that all documentation, tools, equipment, craft support and other resources necessary to the proper and timely performance of his/her assigned tasks are identified with sufficient advance notice to PM to support the startup schedule.

- Verify that the turnover packages relating to systems under his/her care contain sufficient information enabling the safe and orderly performance of mechanical commissioning work.

- Prepare and submit for the approval of PM detailed commissioning procedures referencing and interpreting the requirements of equipment suppliers, design documents, and governing codes and standards for each system and piece of equipment placed under his/her care.

- Responsible for implementing and enforcing the Lockout-Tag Out (“LOTO”) safety procedures at all times and for each element of systems assigned to his/her care and responsibility.

- Responsible for any other duties assigned to him/her.

Working Conditions:

The duties and responsibilities are generally performed in a plant or support services environment. The position generally involves:

- occasional sitting;

- frequent standing,

- occasional walking;

- moderate to heavy lifting and carrying (50lbs.+);

- frequent kneeling,

- twisting and balancing;

- occasional climbing; frequent reaching;

- frequent pushing/pulling,

- grasping and operation of machinery.

- 80% of the work is outside; 20% inside.

The environmental conditions generally include:

- Frequent exposure to the elements (ie., heat, cold, rain)

- the majority of the work will be outside or in a construction-like atmosphere;

- hazardous conditions.

- The use of protective clothing and/or personal devices is generally required.