Welding & Quality Inspector
Company
Chart Industries
Location
Johannesburg (+1 other)
Via
via Talent.com
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Job Description
Ensuring Charts Success
Howden a Chart Industries Company is a global leader in air and gas handling products services and solutions. Howdens core focus is on providing quality solutions for air and gas handling and have over a century of experience in doing so.
Howden South Africa Division is looking for an experienced Welding & Quality Inspector to ensure all welding and fabrication work carried out in the heavyfabrication workshop conforms to approved welding procedures engineering drawings ITP requirements applicable codes/standards customer specifications and internal quality controls. The role includes functional leadership of welders grinders and other workshop personnel when required.
What Will You Do
• Verify job scope customer specifications and quality requirements.
• Confirm approved drawings WPS/WPQR and weldprocedure documentation.
• Ensure material certificates and traceability records.
• Perform inspections as required by the ITP.
• Verify welders qualifications and WPS compliance and keep record thereof.
• Conduct dimensional inspections during fabrication.
• Check welding consumables for handling and storage compliance.
• Perform visual weld inspections and surface preparation checks.
• Monitor NDT activities and liaise with NDE personnel. Conduct final inspections before release.
• Raise NCRs verify corrective actions and close out deviations.
• Maintain accurate inspection records and data packs.
• Verify calibration and suitability of welding equipment.
• Enforce safety and environmental compliance.
• Provide functional supervision of Welders Grinders and general workshop artisans as required.
• Support coordination of workshop labour allocation task prioritisation and productivity.
• Assist in overseeing entire workshop teams during periods of absence peak workload or operational need.
Your Experience Should Be...
• Artisan qualification (Boilermaker/Welder/Fitter & Turner).
• At least 5 years of experience in a similar position.
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings.
• Knowledge of welding processes.
• Understanding of NDT requirements.
• Computer literacy (MS Office).
• SAIW Welding Inspector Level 1 and 2.
• Experience in heavy fabrication.
• ISO 3834 exposure.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Exceptional focus on accuracy and detail
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Leadership capability when supervising artisans.
Our Benefits Package...
Howden offers an excellent benefits package along with a competitive salary. It also provides the opportunity to work in a dynamic fast-paced environment within a global engineering company.
Required Experience:
IC
Key Skills
Car Driving,Accounting And Auditing,Instrumentation,Application Engineering,Jboss,AX
Employment Type : Full Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1
Howden a Chart Industries Company is a global leader in air and gas handling products services and solutions. Howdens core focus is on providing quality solutions for air and gas handling and have over a century of experience in doing so.
Howden South Africa Division is looking for an experienced Welding & Quality Inspector to ensure all welding and fabrication work carried out in the heavyfabrication workshop conforms to approved welding procedures engineering drawings ITP requirements applicable codes/standards customer specifications and internal quality controls. The role includes functional leadership of welders grinders and other workshop personnel when required.
What Will You Do
• Verify job scope customer specifications and quality requirements.
• Confirm approved drawings WPS/WPQR and weldprocedure documentation.
• Ensure material certificates and traceability records.
• Perform inspections as required by the ITP.
• Verify welders qualifications and WPS compliance and keep record thereof.
• Conduct dimensional inspections during fabrication.
• Check welding consumables for handling and storage compliance.
• Perform visual weld inspections and surface preparation checks.
• Monitor NDT activities and liaise with NDE personnel. Conduct final inspections before release.
• Raise NCRs verify corrective actions and close out deviations.
• Maintain accurate inspection records and data packs.
• Verify calibration and suitability of welding equipment.
• Enforce safety and environmental compliance.
• Provide functional supervision of Welders Grinders and general workshop artisans as required.
• Support coordination of workshop labour allocation task prioritisation and productivity.
• Assist in overseeing entire workshop teams during periods of absence peak workload or operational need.
Your Experience Should Be...
• Artisan qualification (Boilermaker/Welder/Fitter & Turner).
• At least 5 years of experience in a similar position.
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings.
• Knowledge of welding processes.
• Understanding of NDT requirements.
• Computer literacy (MS Office).
• SAIW Welding Inspector Level 1 and 2.
• Experience in heavy fabrication.
• ISO 3834 exposure.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Exceptional focus on accuracy and detail
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Leadership capability when supervising artisans.
Our Benefits Package...
Howden offers an excellent benefits package along with a competitive salary. It also provides the opportunity to work in a dynamic fast-paced environment within a global engineering company.
Required Experience:
IC
Key Skills
Car Driving,Accounting And Auditing,Instrumentation,Application Engineering,Jboss,AX
Employment Type : Full Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1
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