Chief Inspector

Job Accountabilities And Responsibilities

• Own the enterprise-wide approach to inspection program management, including programs governed by API 510 (pressure vessels), API 570 (piping systems), and API 653 (storage tanks).
• Define and maintain expectations for risk-based inspection (RBI) methodology application across all O&P USA assets, including damage mechanism reviews, inspection planning, and corrective action management.
• Continuously optimize inspection programs to ensure the enterprise is inspecting the right equipment, in the right areas, at the right intervals, focusing inspection resources where risk is highest and reducing low-value inspection activity.
• Ensure inspection programs are aligned with applicable API codes, ASME standards, corporate mechanical integrity expectations, and OMS requirements.
• Drive standardization of inspection planning, documentation, and reporting practices across all sites.
• Provide technical leadership and functional guidance to site-based inspection leads, ensuring consistent program execution across all locations.
• Engage regularly with site teams to assess inspection program health, resolve technical challenges, and drive consistent execution across diverse asset bases and site cultures.
• Lead or participate in internal audits of inspection programs and mechanical integrity practices, identifying systemic gaps and driving corrective actions to closure.
• Functionally calibrate site inspection leads to ensure alignment on enterprise expectations, risk tolerance, code interpretation, and decision-making practices in the field.
• Lead the inspector role group across O&P USA, defining what good looks like for the inspector role at every level, from field inspectors to site inspection leads.
• Establish clear expectations for inspector competency, field performance, technical judgment, and professional development, and serve as the accountable owner for these standards within the future INEOS O&P Business Competency Management System.
• Develop and maintain a structured inspector development framework, including progression pathways, technical training requirements, certification milestones, and on-the-job development standards.
• Assess the capability of site-based inspection personnel and identify gaps in knowledge, experience, or certification that require targeted development or external support.
• Champion a culture of professional growth and technical excellence within the inspection community, support succession planning for critical inspection roles, and ensure inspectors are equipped to make sound, risk-informed decisions in the field.
• Tailor inspection programs to recognize the different risk profiles of manufacturing, utilities, pipeline, and storage assets across the O&P USA portfolio.
• Ensure inspection intervals, damage mechanism reviews, and corrective action plans are risk-based, defensible, and grounded in current asset condition data.
• Work closely with the Corrosion & Materials Engineer to ensure inspection strategies reflect known degradation threats, material vulnerabilities, and corrosion control document requirements.
• Collaborate with the Fixed Equipment Specialist to align inspection findings with asset care strategies, lifecycle planning, and capital investment priorities.
• Coach site inspection teams through RBI-, FFS-, and damage-mechanism-based decision making, ensuring consistency across the enterprise.
• Continuously monitor industry incident trends, NDE technology developments, and emerging damage mechanisms to identify potential threats before they are realized within O&P USA, and update inspection strategies accordingly.
• Maintain technical relationships with inspection service providers and NDE contractors, setting clear expectations for field execution quality, data management, and reporting standards.
• Lead the technical review and endorsement of new inspection vendors, NDE technologies, or inspection methods before adoption.
• Participate in vendor qualification and performance evaluation processes, with focus on inspection-specific outcomes such as NDE quality, data accuracy, and reporting reliability.
• Ensure third-party inspection work is consistent with enterprise standards, delivers reliable high-quality results, and is appropriately integrated into site inspection program records.
• Partner with Procurement to shape vendor strategies that support the enterprise’s mechanical integrity and inspection goals, including opportunities to reduce complexity and improve consistency through vendor consolidation.
• Support turnaround inspection scope development across the enterprise ensuring alignment with RBI priorities, asset care strategies, and known degradation threats.
• Provide technical oversight of inspection execution during turnarounds, including NDE methods, fitness-for-service evaluations, and quality assurance of vendor-executed work.
• Endorse turnaround inspection scope from a risk-based perspective, confirming appropriate risk reduction relative to the value of work and identifying residual risk for site leadership awareness.
• Ensure inspection findings from turnarounds are documented, analyzed, and fed back into asset care strategies, RBI program updates, and damage mechanism reviews.
• Influence the inspection portion of $175MM+ in annual maintenance and inspection spend through risk-based scope selection and execution quality across approximately 20 distinct turnaround events on rotating multi-year cycles.
• Develop and maintain enterprise KPIs for inspection program execution, including overdue inspections, RBI plan currency, asset health indicators, inspection coverage, and vendor performance metrics.
• Track inspection-related incidents, gaps, and near-misses; lead and support incident investigations involving mechanical integrity failures, contributing technical expertise on inspection practices and program effectiveness; and drive corrective actions into program updates.
• Drive continuous improvement in inspection program maturity across all sites, integrating lessons from incidents, turnarounds, audits, and peer benchmarking to advance enterprise inspection performance.
• Participate in, and where appropriate lead, INEOS Group inspection discipline networks to ensure alignment, knowledge sharing, and adoption of best practices across the enterprise.
• Actively participate in external technical forums, including API committees and the AFPM Mechanical Integrity Subgroup, representing INEOS interests and bringing industry learnings back into the organization.
• Monitor regulatory changes, evolving inspection codes and standards, NDE technology developments, and external incidents to ensure INEOS inspection programs remain credible, current, and defensible.
• Foster a network of site-based inspection professionals to share best practices, learn from each other, and collectively improve the enterprise's mechanical integrity and inspection capabilities.

Risk Profiling & Inspection Strategy

• Tailor inspection programs to recognize the different risk profiles of manufacturing, utilities, pipeline, and storage assets across the O&P USA portfolio.
• Ensure inspection intervals, damage mechanism reviews, and corrective action plans are risk-based, defensible, and grounded in current asset condition data.
• Work closely with the Corrosion & Materials Engineer to ensure inspection strategies reflect known degradation threats, material vulnerabilities, and corrosion control document requirements.
• Collaborate with the Fixed Equipment Specialist to align inspection findings with asset care strategies, lifecycle planning, and capital investment priorities.
• Coach site inspection teams through RBI-, FFS-, and damage-mechanism-based decision making, ensuring consistency across the enterprise.
• Continuously monitor industry incident trends, NDE technology developments, and emerging damage mechanisms to identify potential threats before they are realized within O&P USA, and update inspection strategies accordingly.

Third-Party Vendor Management & Technical Stewardship

• Maintain technical relationships with inspection service providers and NDE contractors, setting clear expectations for field execution quality, data management, and reporting standards.
• Lead the technical review and endorsement of new inspection vendors, NDE technologies, or inspection methods before adoption.
• Participate in vendor qualification and performance evaluation processes, with focus on inspection-specific outcomes such as NDE quality, data accuracy, and reporting reliability.
• Ensure third-party inspection work is consistent with enterprise standards, delivers reliable high-quality results, and is appropriately integrated into site inspection program records.
• Partner with Procurement to shape vendor strategies that support the enterprise’s mechanical integrity and inspection goals, including opportunities to reduce complexity and improve consistency through vendor consolidation.

Performance Monitoring & Continuous Improvement

• Develop and maintain enterprise KPIs for inspection program execution, including overdue inspections, RBI plan currency, asset health indicators, inspection coverage, and vendor performance metrics.
• Track inspection-related incidents, gaps, and near-misses; lead and support incident investigations involving mechanical integrity failures, contributing technical expertise on inspection practices and program effectiveness; and drive corrective actions into program updates.
• Drive continuous improvement in inspection program maturity across all sites, integrating lessons from incidents, turnarounds, audits, and peer benchmarking to advance enterprise inspection performance.

External Engagement & Industry Benchmarking

• Participate in, and where appropriate lead, INEOS Group inspection discipline networks to ensure alignment, knowledge sharing, and adoption of best practices across the enterprise.
• Actively participate in external technical forums, including API committees and the AFPM Mechanical Integrity Subgroup, representing INEOS interests and bringing industry learnings back into the organization.
• Monitor regulatory changes, evolving inspection codes and standards, NDE technology developments, and external incidents to ensure INEOS inspection programs remain credible, current, and defensible.
• Foster a network of site-based inspection professionals to share best practices, learn from each other, and collectively improve the enterprise's mechanical integrity and inspection capabilities.