Quality Inspector

**About the role**
Our projects are more than just your opportunity to make your mark. They are an opportunity to stretch, test and develop your expertise. Join our Major Projects team as a** Quality Inspector (welding)** on the **Hinkley Point C Project** and you will deliver complex work that really matters to our business, and the world around you. You'll work with true experts who'll share their knowledge and provide support, encouragement and invaluable feedback so you never stop learning. Bring us your capability, and we'll help you take it much, much further.

**What you'll be doing**
- You will be ensuring that fabrication, erection and installation is carried out in accordance with the appropriate requirements including cutting tack welding, fit-up inspection and acceptance for welding and that general good practices are adopted and adhered to.
- Liaison with the Engineering and Production personnel, Clients' Inspectors, other discipline inspectors and, when appropriate, the Certifying Authority, Classification Society and / or Independent Verification Body.
- Ensuring the welds are performed by qualified welders in accordance with approved procedures / site welding instruction sheets and the resultant welds are in compliance with the requirements.
- Carrying out weld procedure, production test and general parameter monitoring using the methods and equipment as directed by the Project Welding Engineer, including setting up of welding plant when required. Monitoring, inspecting and sentencing of welder qualifications.
- Performing surveillance as required by the Quality Control / Inspection and Test Plans, and documenting all of the inspections on the appropriate formats, including stores monitoring, consumable control, vac Pac checks, etc.
- Performing daily inspections, maintaining a daily diary, completing checklists and producing weekly summary reports
- Monitoring materials usage and traceability to ensure the right material is being utilised, that Test Certificate Numbers are being transferred and correctly recorded.
- To be familiar with the Scope of Work, the Contract Specifications and appropriate National / International Standards, the drawings and the procedures.
- To verify fabrication and installation of the work, inspect and witness tests as required and sign the relevant Test / Inspection / Mechanical Completion Certificates / Records.
- To pay attention to all quality issues and bring to management attention deficiencies which may be outside his workscope e.g.: preservation and protection of materials and equipment, architectural items unprotected in an external environment
- To document through the NCR procedure, deficiencies revealed during inspection subsequently following up and closing out of such situations.

**Who we're looking for**
- CSWIP 3.1 or equivalent qualification and / or a minimum of five years’ experience within the welding inspection discipline within the Nuclear / offshore / petrochemical industry
- Nuclear Experience beneficial
- Welding and NDT experience

**Why work for us**
Day in, day out, our teams deliver amazing projects in challenging conditions; developing, managing and maintaining the vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies and communities rely on.

**About us**
Balfour Beatty Major Projects have delivered some of the UK's most complex and iconic infrastructure projects, including Blackfriars Station, the Olympic Aquatics Centre and the Olympic Stadium transformation. We have the proven expertise to deliver large-scale projects safely and successfully, from consultancy and design, to all aspects of construction and maintenance. Through our expert capability, we work closely with clients to use the latest technology, machinery and innovative solutions to meet their engineering and construction needs.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.

Job Reference: BBUK02868