Certified Welding Inspector

Talascend is currently seeking a Certified Welding Inspector for a contract opportunity with our client in Houston, Texas.

Overview

The Certified Welding Inspector visits supplier and vendor facilities to perform quality surveillance, inspection, document review, and testing activities. This field-based role verifies that supplier-furnished materials and equipment conform to procurement, technical, quality, code, and standards requirements.

Responsibilities

• Review procurement requirements with supplier representatives to confirm understanding and implementation.
• Participate in kickoff and pre-fabrication meetings, confirming witness and hold points, inspection and test planning, documentation deliverables, and traceability expectations.
• Verify that qualified procedures and personnel, calibrated equipment, approved drawings and revisions, and released materials are available before work begins.
• Perform quality surveillance activities in accordance with the assignment scope and quality surveillance plan.
• Monitor supplier operations, inspections, examinations, and tests, including welding, fit-up, dimensional verification, nondestructive examination, blasting and coating, pressure and functional testing, final inspection, factory acceptance testing, and pre-shipment verification.
• Review supplier-generated quality documentation, including material test reports, traceability records, nondestructive examination reports, personnel and procedure qualifications, calibration records, coating records, and data books.
• Verify that subcontracted operations and sub-suppliers are disclosed, qualified, and controlled, and that related findings and records are included in supplier reporting.
• Reject nonconforming material and document conditions objectively with references to governing requirements and supporting photographic evidence.
• Collaborate with suppliers and project quality personnel to determine dispositions for nonconformances.
• Verify corrective actions in the shop and ensure open actions include an owner, due date, closure evidence, and follow-up verification.
• Release conforming materials for shipment and coordinate related activities with other project functions.
• Prepare timely and accurate surveillance reports documenting attendance, observations, findings, and actions.
• Notify project personnel of quality or fabrication risks and coordinate quality and progress information with expediting personnel.
• Support remote and technology-enabled surveillance activities, including video collaboration, three-dimensional scanning, and model overlay tools.
• Maintain assignment, inspection, finding, certification, and photographic records in applicable systems.

Qualifications

• Two years of related experience involving at least 2,000 hours of in-shop surveillance, examination, or testing activities; or
• High school diploma or equivalent and at least 1,000 hours of in-shop surveillance, examination, or testing activities; or
• Associate degree or equivalent completion of two years of full-time college coursework in a related discipline, plus at least 500 hours of related in-shop inspection, examination, or testing experience.
• Valid driver's license and ability to travel routinely to supplier facilities within the assigned area.
• Ability to obtain and maintain required client, facility, or export-control access.
• Ability to work under moderate supervision and reach defensible conclusions independently at supplier facilities.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to write clear, factual surveillance reports.
• Working knowledge of word processing and spreadsheet applications, electronic report submission and assignment tracking, and digital cameras.
• Ability to work safely in an industrial fabrication environment with exposure to noise, heat, cold, dust, fumes, and moving equipment while wearing required personal protective equipment.
• Ability to climb ladders and stairs, work at elevation, enter confined or restricted spaces when authorized, stand and walk for extended periods, and lift and carry inspection equipment weighing approximately 25 pounds.
• Vision and hearing, with correction as needed, sufficient to perform visual examinations and witness testing.

Preferred Qualifications

• Four to five years of quality assurance, quality control, supplier quality, or shop-surveillance experience.
• Experience with structural steel fabrication and protective coatings.
• Additional in-shop quality surveillance or related experience with equipment or materials common to the assigned industry.
• Experience with structural steel and plate work; piping, spools, valves, and supports; pressure vessels, exchangers, tanks, and modules; rotating equipment and packaged units; electrical and instrumentation equipment; protective coatings and linings; or precast and prestressed concrete products.
• Working familiarity with applicable codes and standards for the assigned commodity.
• Industry certification in nondestructive examination, welding inspection, coating inspection, or concrete production and quality.
• Experience with quality programs applicable to the assignment.
• Experience supporting engineering, procurement, and construction projects in energy, nuclear, liquefied natural gas, mining and metals, or major infrastructure.
• Experience with supplier assessment, surveillance level determination, supplier requalification, or supplier document and certification data book control.
• Experience with international suppliers and translated documentation.
• Second-language proficiency relevant to the assigned region.
• Include all industry certifications with the resume, including issue and expiration dates.