Inspector - Piping

Inspector - Piping

Interested candidates must be eligible to work in the USA without sponsorship.

Inspector focused on piping lines and systems including joint fit-up, preheat maintenance, welding, post-weld heat treatment, hardness and ferrite tests, PMI (positive material identification), NDE (nondestructive examination), and bolted or threaded connections.

Assist with surface preparation and coating, insulation, leak test, and system/work packages to verify conformity, completeness, and accuracy of product, service, process, system, and/or records required as part of the Work where necessary. Provide support where needed to ensure that relevant requirements are communicated, understood, and fulfilled for the Work.

Participate as a member of the Quality Management Function that is part of the ETH (Ethylene) Construction Organization having oversight of Contractor Group to ensure that Work meets requirements; and that the facilities are delivered on-time, within budget, and are safe to operate in a reliable manner consistent with their design, functional, and performance specifications. Occasional domestic business travel may be required.

Responsibilities

- Perform assigned duties and work with others where appropriate to ensure that Contractor Group and Project are successful.

- Inspect welding consumable storage and handling, and positive material identification to ensure requirements are fulfilled.

- Inspect welding equipment to verify calibration and adjustment meet requirements; and that equipment is maintained, in good working order, and safe to operate.

- Inspect welding process grounding connections to ensure they are as close as practicable to the workpiece, and do not provide an electrical current path that is unsafe to personnel or that damages equipment.

- Inspect production welding activities to verify conformity to the approved welding procedure specifications.

- Inspect bolted and threaded connections to ensure leak tightness and conformity to requirements.

- Monitor, inspect, and witness pre-heating, welding, post-weld heat treatment, NDE, PMI, hardness testing, ferrite testing, leak testing, surface preparation, coating application, insulation, and system/work package processes and products to verify requirements and acceptance criteria are met and the planned results are achieved.

- Participate in system/work package activities and walkdowns to determine conformity prior to acceptance by Company.

- Review relevant records for completeness, accuracy, conformity, and traceability to the Work.

- Ensure requirements are communicated, understood, and fulfilled.

- Work safely and lead by example.

- Comply with established policies and procedures, and relevant rules and regulations.

- Champion project goals and expectations.

- Ensure that Contractor Group’s Work activities achieve the planned results and objectives.

- Assist with quality auditing activities in accordance with plans and schedules and report the results.

- Ensure that risk-based thinking, preventive action, and corrective action are performed and effective to the extent necessary to eliminate the cause of potential or identified nonconformities or undesirable situations and prevent their occurrence or recurrence.

- Ensure that nonconformities are controlled; correction is performed to eliminate nonconformities; and the status of nonconformities is known, communicated, recorded, and maintained.

- Ensure that information demonstrating acceptance status and/or fulfillment of quality requirements is recorded and maintained in accordance with the Contract.

- Assist with Identifying, clarifying, and resolving quality issues, including differences between Company and Contractor Group.

- Identify deficiencies and collaborate where necessary to effect improvement.

- Maintain good working relationships with Project personnel, and act where necessary to deescalate and resolve conflict in an amicable manner.

- Liaise with Project personal at appropriate levels to achieve planned results and desired outcomes.

- Practice self-accountability for meeting expectations and responsibilities. • Assist Quality Lead – ETH and/or Quality Manager as directed or otherwise necessary.

- Report status and results of quality management activities in accordance with requirements.

Experience & Qualifications:

- 10 or more years of equivalent inspection experience related to welding, NDE, leak testing, and system/work packages.

- Experience on > USD 250 million CAPEX (capital expenditure) value chemical, petrochemical, refining, or similar onshore/offshore production or infrastructure projects.

- Know-how regarding fabrication, construction, installation, and inspection; and testing of equipment, piping, steel structures, and process and utility systems and facilities.

- Working knowledge of welding, preheat, heat treatment, and NDE equipment, processes, and systems.

- Familiar with leak test and system/work package boundaries, and fundamental parts and processes thereof.

- Experience with closure weld, critical line internal cleanliness, and build-it-clean (BIC) methods.

- Certified Welding Inspector (CWI) or higher – American Welding Society (AWS) or equivalent certification. [

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- Certified NDT Level II or III (LT, MT, PT, RT, and/or UT) – American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT) or equivalent certification. [VOLUMETRIC EXAMINATION METHODS ARE PRIORITIZED].

- American Petroleum Institute (API), Association of Materials Protection and Performance (AMPP) [formerly NACE and SSPC], International Code Council (ICC), and/or other industry standard certification(s). • Conscientious, consistent, fair, reasonable, reliable, trustworthy, and good overall character.

- Motivated to perform work in a professional manner and respect the opinion of others.

- Ability to work and achieve results under pressure.

- Willingness to work outside normal business hours if and where needed.

- Capability to read, understand, review, and comment on technical documents such as plans, procedures, specifications, work instructions, datasheets, and drawings.

- Familiar with piping & instrument diagrams, orthographic & isometric drawings, and specifications.

- Strong working knowledge of ASME BPVC.I, B31.1, and B31.3 and other industry standards relevant to hydrocarbon processing units and process steam generators or heat recovery steam generators.

- Ability to work alone or in a team environment, with or without direction.

- Adept at handling and prioritizing competing tasks.

- Risk-based thinking and risk management competence.

- Good people skills and community behavior.

- Situational awareness.

- Results oriented.

- Good English language communication skills. Spanish or other Latin language skills are a plus.

Authority

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• Perform inspections in accordance with Contract requirements, plans, and as directed by supervisor.

• Determine whether relevant requirements are fulfilled.

• Pause Work due to identified unsafe or nonconforming condition, or unacceptable quality, safety, security, health, environmental, or regulatory risk or threat.