Welding Inspector

**Welding Inspector**

Location: Hull

Bilfinger UK is a leading engineering and maintenance provider, supporting customers across the chemical & petrochemical, nuclear, oil & gas, pharmaceuticals & biopharma, power & energy, utilities, renewables and food & beverage markets. We enhance the efficiency of assets, ensuring a high level of availability and reducing maintenance costs.

We have extensive experience in offshore and onshore facilities; specialising in asset management services throughout all life cycle phases from consulting, engineering, manufacturing, assembly, operations, maintenance, and decommissioning.

This commitment is delivered by an experienced and highly competent workforce of over 4,500 employees operating from 14 offices in strategic industrial hubs, upholding the highest standards of safety, compliance and quality.

**Welding Inspector**:
Welding Inspector is responsible for leading the delivery inspections and reviews of UK Fabrication to ensure high levels of performance and mínimal ND

**Key Activities**:

- Review Quality Plans, FUD’s Inspection and Test Plans and supporting QA & NDT documentation
- Interpretation of the intent and ensuring the requirements of codes, standards and specifications are met.
- Liaise with QA Manager, QC-Lead and Project Leads in relation to submission of documentation and QA requirements for projects / maintenance
- Witnessing of welder and procedure approval tests, plus the witnessing the preparation of test plates and destructive tests and verifying compliance with appropriate standards and specifications.
- Ensuring that a procedure is available, has been approved and is being employed in production.
- Verifying that adequate and valid welder approvals are available, and that only approved welders are used in production.
- Verification of correctness of welding consumables (electrodes, filler wires, consumable inserts, gases, fluxes etc.)
- Pre-weld inspection, Verify that dimensions, fit-up and weld preparations are in accordance with specifications.
- Verification that any required preheat is in accordance with the specified procedure.
- Surveillance during welding to verify compliance with specified procedures including any preheat, interpass temperature control and post heat requirements.
- When Post-weld heat treatment is required ensure PWHT is completed in accordance with specification requirements.
- Post-weld visual inspection and dimensional checks of completed weldment against specification requirements and drawings.
- Co-ordinate and advise guidance on welding, NDT and other quality requirements
- Carry out inspections and examinations delivering quality auditing and control of activities.
- Report inspection findings and non-conformances in line with project plans and reporting requirements.
- Raise Continuous Improvement Forms (CIFs) as appropriate and liaise with Client’s QA/QC departments
- Ensure all quality documentation/records are maintained within the Company’s Combined Management System (CMS)
- Ensure quality performance monitoring is maintained and reviewed accordingly against KPIs
- Contribute to the improvement and technical capabilities of the Company
- Support existing, strong workshop HSE Culture

**Experience**:

- Good Engineering and QA/QC background for Nuclear fabrication
- Understanding of fabrication, welding and NDT techniques
- Radiographic interpretation
- Knowledge and familiarity with KPIs and performance monitoring techniques
- Understanding of and familiarity with pipe standards and specifications
- Development of project QA documentation (Quality Plans, ITPs etc.) and review of supplier QA documentation
- Computer literate; knowledge of Microsoft Office suite essential
- Good communication and report writing skills

**Qualifications**:

- CSWIP Level 3.2 Senior Welding Inspector
- PCN level 2 - Radiographic Interpretation
- Recognised Internal Auditor qualification
- ONC/HNC Mechanical Engineering/BTEC/City & Guilds or equivalent experience