Inspection Coordinator

About the role

Saipem is a global leader in the engineering and construction of major projects for the energy and infrastructure sectors, both offshore and onshore. Organized into business lines: Asset Based Services, Drilling, Energy Carriers, Offshore Wind, Sustainable Infrastructures, Robotics & Industrialized Solutions. Purpose: “Engineering for a sustainable future”. Present in more than 50 countries, employs about 30,000 people of over 130 nationalities.

As Inspecting Coordinator you will be part of the Post Order Services team at Saipem America. Your primary purpose is to plan, coordinate, and control all inspection activities related to procured materials and equipment, ensuring inspections are efficiently scheduled, properly executed, documented, performed on time and closed, in accordance with project requirements, inspection and test plans (ITPs), and quality standards, without impacting the project schedule. Location: Houston, Texas.

Responsibilities

• Review Project Quality Control requirements and all contractual documentation to detect discrepancies and prevent misunderstandings, aiming for a supply‑chain management approach.
• Support Material Management (MM) on issuance of Project QC procedures.
• Contribute to finalize PMC and IDS.
• Support MM on PO Inspection Classification.
• Ensure specialist support to engineering department for vendor quality control documents review (ITP and Test Procedures), directly or through Internal Inspectors.
• For each Project PO, ensure all necessary and suitable documentation (Inspection Assignment Package) is available to the designated inspector prior to inspection activities.
• With MM support, plan/organize the PIM (if any), agree dates and venues with Vendors, ensure presence of all Sub‑Vendors (if any), Saipem (requisitioning unit and designated inspector), Client and any required third‑party personnel.
• Ensure correct Project inspection notification workflow with Client and/or Third Parties per contractual requirements, and that all necessary documentation is available prior to confirmation of inspection notification.
• Check all inspection reports received from inspectors (internal and external) and ensure correct distribution/filing in the system (SAP).
• After a positive final test result, verify that all necessary conditions are satisfactory and ensure timely issuance of Inspection Release Note in SAP.
• In case of unsatisfactory inspection, ensure correct management of Non‑Conformity Reports and Punch Lists.
• Ensure vendor Manufactured Data Book review and approval and timely issuance of Final Test Certificate in SAP.
• Ensure performance evaluation of external (Agency) inspectors using I‑PERF.

Requirements

Education: Diploma in Engineering