Senior Welding Quality Control Inspector (AWS CWI)

Key Responsibilities

• Perform welding inspections and quality surveillance during construction, maintenance, turnaround, and outage activities.
• Verify compliance with approved welding procedures, project specifications, customer requirements, and applicable industry codes and standards.
• Inspect welding activities, fabrication work, repairs, pressure boundary modifications, and structural steel installations.
• Review welding procedures, welder qualifications, inspection reports, test records, and other quality documentation.
• Identify, document, and communicate non-conformances and support corrective and preventive actions.
• Cook up with construction, engineering, quality, contractors, and customer representatives to resolve quality concerns.
• Maintain accurate inspection records, punch lists, reports, and turnover documentation.
• Support audits, surveillance programmes, readiness assessments, completion activities, and continuous improvement initiatives focused on execution quality and reduced rework.

Qualifications & Experience

• Current AWS Certified Welding Inspector (CWI) certification.
• Technical school qualification or an equivalent combination of education, training, and industry experience.
• Significant experience performing welding inspections and quality control activities in industrial construction, maintenance, turnaround, fabrication, or manufacturing environments.
• Strong knowledge of welding processes, inspection techniques, welder qualification requirements, and quality management principles.
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings, fabrication drawings, welding procedures, specifications, and quality records.
• Working knowledge of relevant industry codes and standards including AWS, ASME, and API.
• Proven ability to independently assess workmanship, determine compliance, and manage quality issues in a fast-paced environment.
• Desirable: Experience supporting refinery, petrochemical, LNG, power generation, heavy industrial, or energy infrastructure projects.