Quality Engineer

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Review and verify vendor quality documentation to ensure compliance with project specifications and applicable industry codes, including AWS D1.1, ASME Sections II, V, VIII & IX, B31.1, B31.3, AISC, ASNT, API, and NACE.
• Develop, implement, and maintain inspection and testing procedures.
• Create and execute quality control plans.
• Collaborate with suppliers, clients, and internal teams to ensure quality requirements are achieved.
• Document inspection results and implement corrective actions to address quality issues.
• Lead root cause investigations and drive effective corrective and preventive actions.
• Analyze quality metrics and report findings to management.
• Review engineering codes, standards, and project specifications.
• Participate in design reviews to ensure quality requirements are incorporated into product development.
• Conduct vendor audits to verify compliance with client and project quality standards.
• Communicate quality-related information to internal departments, vendors, and clients.
• Perform quality inspections and surveillance activities, including welding, bolting, dimensional verification, equipment installation and alignment, preservation, storage, structural steel erection, painting inspections, and project completion verification.
• Prepare QA/QC inspection reports for welding, bolting, mechanical equipment installation, trial assemblies, and other inspection activities.
• Organize quality meetings with project teams, vendors, and clients, and prepare meeting minutes (MOM).
• Manage and verify implementation of quality control programs.
• Maintain commissioning and preservation documentation.
• Update quality databases, logs, non-conformance reports (NCRs), overage/shortage & damage (OS&D) reports, and other quality records.
• Maintain calibration records, inspection schedules, and related quality documentation.
• Review or compile Manufacturing Data Record (MDR) books for project closeout.
• Become proficient in company quality assurance procedures and responsibilities.
• Manage the internal vendor inspection schedule.
• Cookordination inspection activities with clients, purchasing, expediting, logistics, and project teams.
• Expand and maintain the third-party inspection service database.
• Provide technical guidance and training to team members on quality assurance and quality control practices.
• Perform additional duties as assigned by the QA/QC Director.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of quality control standards, methodologies, and industry best practices.
• AWS D1.1 and/or Certified Welding Inspector (CWI) certification preferred but not required.
• NACE Level II or III certification preferred but not required.
• Knowledge of rotating equipment is preferred.
• Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings, plans, specifications, and technical documents.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, email, PDF software, and document management systems (such as Adept).
• Excellent attention to detail and organizational skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Effective project management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Self-motivated, proactive, and capable of identifying and resolving quality concerns before they become issues.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in both office and field environments.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience performing dimensional inspections.
• Commitment to continuous learning and professional development within the quality discipline.

Education & Experience

• Associate's or Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Quality Assurance, or a related technical discipline.
• Two to five years of experience in quality assurance, quality control, or a related technical field is preferred but not required.