Senior Welding Governance Specialist

2 days ago


Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom NES Fircroft Full time
Job Title: Senior Welding Governance Specialist

We are recruiting for a Senior Welding Governance Specialist to join our team at NES Fircroft in Wolverhampton.

About the Role:

This is an exciting opportunity to lead and advise on all technical requirements pertaining to contract, ensuring operational welding governance meets the accreditation to required standards.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Project Welding Technical Review: Lead and advise on all technical requirements, including weld design, in-service performance, ease of manufacture, code and standard requirements, and inspection requirements.
  • Emerging Technologies and Consumables: Investigate and evaluate emerging technologies and consumables to enhance Welding capabilities in line with business needs.
Welding Management Systems & Compliance:
  • Develop and manage the Welding Quality Management System, ensuring alignment with required standards.
  • Primary Contact: Act as the primary contact for welding-related inquiries, developing Weld Procedure Specifications (WPS) and Procedure Qualification Records (PQR) for projects.
  • Maintenance of Welder Qualifications: Maintain periodic welder qualifications and coordinate subcontractor approvals to ensure compliance with project requirements.
  • Quality Assurance/Control Support: Project-specific QA/QC needs, ensuring alignment with ISO 9001 and contractual requirements.
  • Database Management: Oversee the database of WPS, WPQR, and WPQ, and manage site audits for welder activities and subcontractor QA/QC.
  • Root-Cause Analysis: Conduct root-cause analysis for weld failures and contribute to process improvements.
Management System Policy and Framework:
  • Establish weld management frameworks and policies, integrating AE Group requirements.
  • Legislative, Code, and Regulatory Standards: Ensure weld processes meet legislative, code, and regulatory standards and maintain up-to-date documentation.
Documentation Control & Maintenance:
  • Control and maintain welding documentation within the management framework, ensuring currency, approval, and periodic review.
  • Product Verification Documentation: Provide expertise for product verification documentation and coordinate with customer representatives for welding inspection requirements.
Certification, Approvals, and Audits:
  • Manage all welding certifications, ensuring they are embedded within the management systems.
  • Audit Schedules: Conduct and document audit schedules based on risk, ensuring all requirements are met and improvements are implemented.
Essential Qualifications:

Degree qualified or equivalent in a relevant engineering subject.

5+ years in either Nuclear or Aerospace/Defence/Oil & Gas sector as a Welding Engineer.

Recognised Welding Qualification: EWT or EWE.

  • Demonstrable experience of product audit/verification of welding process and associated records.
  • Demonstrable working knowledge of main welding processes typically used for high integrity applications within a heavy engineering environment and familiarity with associated national and international codes and specification.
  • Comprehensive working knowledge of EN ISO 3834 and EN 1090.
  • Member or recognised institution (The Welding Institute).
  • Ability to interpret Engineering Customer Specifications and define Welding requirements in terms of Design, LQR needs, acceptance criteria, qualifications and approvals, Processes/procedures, Verification and Validation methods, Inspection and Test and resource needs.
  • Knowledge and application of MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook) and Power point.

The salary for this role is £60,000 - £80,000 per annum, depending on experience.



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