Welding Engineer

Responsibilities

• Provide central office and field support to the Projects Engineering group, existing facilities operations, construction, and maintenance activities.
• Support project activities including field walkdowns, presentations, supplier discussions, drawing and document reviews, and participation in designs ranging from scope definition, feasibility and conceptual studies, and preliminary/detailed designs.
• Write welding requirements for procurement documents, welding, brazing, and bonding procedures in compliance with applicable code requirements.
• Solve problems in designing and maintaining plant facilities and processes.
• Train site personnel from engineering, maintenance, and construction on welding requirements, criteria, and compliance documents.
• Review design output documents for welding technical data and compliance with national codes and standards.
• Draft and provide assistance in the execution of Installation Change Requests (ICR’s), Non-Conformance Reports (NCR’s), and retrain personnel if necessary.
• Evaluate bid proposals for technical compliance of welding submittals, review supplier submittals, and conduct supplier surveillances to ensure compliance to contractually specified welding requirements.
• Support field activities supporting on-site and off-site organizations, including on-site subcontractors performing welding, brazing, bonding activities or non-destructive examination activities.
• Perform off-site supplier visits and audits.
• Maintain oversight/ownership and ultimate responsibility of Filler Material (Rod) Rooms.
• Review on-site work packages involving welding to ensure design output is complete and correct.
• Establish hold points for the fabrication and inspection of welds that satisfy code, specifications, and procedure requirements.
• Generate Weld Inspection Records (WIRs), associated documents and activities, and maintain them by completing and tracking all alterations from the originals.
• Perform random in-process oversight activities of any on-site welding activity.
• Review all completed Welding Inspection Records for completeness and correctness before final closeout.

Qualifications

• Extensive technical knowledge and understanding of AWS AWS A2.4, ASME B31, and ASME Section IX Welding codes.
• Knowledge and hands-on application in the SMAW, GMAW, FCAW, and GTAW processes, and in weld size calculations.
• Knowledge of autogenous weld process for stainless steel tube for high vacuum applications.
• Knowledge of manual and automatic GTAW welding of stainless steel for high vacuum applications.