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About Austin Industrial
Austin Industrial delivers premier maintenance, construction, and soft craft services to leading industrial companies across the U.S. An industry leader for more than 60 years, we offer single-source solutions to our customers in the oil, gas, chemical, food, agriculture, power, and manufacturing industries. Our team of 4,000 employee-owners, equipped with innovative technology and optimized procedures, helps owners optimize safety, productivity, profit margins, and cost efficiency.
QA/QC Piping Inspector
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
QA/QC Piping Inspector must have experience doing UTT thickness readings, and PTs, and may require an API-570 for piping inspection, will inspect, test, and sample products, materials, or parts, for deviations and defects from specifications. The inspector will reject anything that does not meet company standards. A QA or QC inspector will observe production operations and equipment to ensure that specifications are being met and to make or order necessary adjustments to processes or assemblies. Attention to detail is essential to the job to detect defects that could be easily missed by the customer but still present a safety risk, and the ability to communicate clearly and effectively when reporting issues and defects is necessary. An inspector should be able to interpret blueprints and other drawings that detail product specifications. Experience with measuring tools is required as well.
Responsibilities:
- Performs daily construction surveillance at the project site, including welding, structural, and civil inspections.
- Inspect, test, and sample materials or assembled parts or products for defects and deviations from specifications.
- Reject products, materials, and equipment not meeting specifications.
- Observe and report construction progress.
- Writes daily reports based on observations made.
- Reports discrepancies to the QA/QC Manager and Project Manager.
- Coordinates code compliance inspections per client specifications and State laws.
- Maps welds to be performed.
- Effectively interfaces with client QA personnel.
Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk or hear, and taste or smell. The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 25 pounds and may frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
Qualifications Required for this Position:
Education: – no minimum education requirements.
Certifications/ Licenses: NCCER, a valid Driver's License, and a TWIC.
Experience: – 5 years of Journeyman level experience.
Austin Industrial is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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No Third-Party Inquiries Please
- This Company does not accept and will not consider unsolicited resumes or any other unsolicited candidate information submitted to the Company or any of its employee-owners by staffing agencies, search firms, or third-party recruiters in response to a posted vacancy. The Company will not pay any placement fee(s) without a written agreement to do so (e., payment must be required pursuant to the terms of a written agreement).
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