Welding Inspector - Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom - TechnipFMC

TechnipFMC

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Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Location:
Newcastle upon Tyne, GB

Employment type:
Employee

Place of work:
Office

Offshore/Onshore:
Onshore

TechnipFMC is committed to driving real change in the energy industry.

Our ambition is to build a sustainable future through relentless innovation and global collaboration - and we want you to be part of it.

You'll be joining a culture that values curiosity, expertise, and ideas as well as diversity, inclusion, and authenticity.

Bring your unique energy to our team of more than 20,000 people worldwide, and discover a rewarding, fulfilling, and varied career that you can take in anywhere you want to go.

Job Purpose
To support various departments of the business unit and associated subcontractors in ensuring weld quality, integrity and traceability throughout umbilical manufacturing including proposals, qualification, umbilical layup and termination. Accountable and responsible for welding inspection and coordination of the NDT subcontractor as laid out within standards/specifications, inspection test plans and framework agreements throughout project life cycle for Newcastle upon Tyne site. Required to liaise, consult and inform Technical Authority, stakeholders and subcontractors when required.
Job Description

Review prospect (pre-award) specifications for weld inspection and NDT requirements at FEED/proposal stage and liaise with Proposals Engineers to open/close any required qualifications to align with TU standard, clarifications, or deviations.

Review contractual project (post award) specifications/documentation for weld inspection and NDT requirements at execution stage, liaising with PMA to open/close any required technical queries or deviations are opened/closed and ensure any modified weld inspection/NDT acceptance criteria are communicated to PQE for inclusion in ITP.
Liaise with Welding Engineer and Welding Supervisor for planning of welding trials and qualifications e.g., welding procedure qualification, welder performance qualifications and production test piece to avoid clash with P6 production related inspection/NDT.
Preweld inspection of welding trial or qualification samples in accordance with SI06455, SI06456 and WPS requirements. (Joint set up, pure arrangement, recording of material dimensions, material heat/lot, shielding/backing gas batch numbers, recording consumable lot etc)
In process inspection of welding trial or qualification samples in accordance with SI06455, SI and WPS requirements (100% weld monitoring, completion of form

LTF :
As-Run Data and provision to Welding Engineer)

Post Weld VT of welding trial or qualification samples in accordance with SI06461, ITP and/or WPS requirements (100% VT including VT report generation and provision to Welding Engineer)
Post weld VT of umbilical offline/online tie in welds and termination welds in accordance with SI06461, ITP and/or WPS requirements (100% VT including VT report generation). Delegation of duty to NDT Subcontractor EN ISO 9712 VT level II when unavailable e.g. activity clash / night shift. HR-F033 Rev 2 Uncontrolled if printed Date of last review: April 202
Random inprocess welding inspection to be performed on structural works performed by a TU appointed subcontractor e.g. reel packing/modifications or CAPEX projects to ensure conformance to MPS 0411 and approved documentation
Postweld VT of structural works performed by a TU appointed subcontractor e.g. reel packing/modifications or CAPEX projects to ensure conformance to MPS 0411 and approved documentation. Delegation of duty to NDT Subcontractor EN ISO 9712 VT level II when unavailable e.g., activity clash / night shift.
Management, review and completion of NDT Subcontractor qualification matrix for personnel operating on TU site, ensuring compliance with SI requirements
Generation and distribution of unique independently numbered and detailed NDT requests to NDT subcontractor in accordance with project requirements e.g., ITP requirement, SI
Review of all NDT Subcontractor reports on behalf of TU to ensure completeness/correctness in accordance with ITP, SI and SI
Minimum 10% radiographic interpretation of NDT Subcontractor images in accordance with ITP, SI and SI on behalf of TU to verify performance and ensure correct acceptance.
Management and completion of TU Weld Tracker ensuring traceability of qualification, tiein and termination welds is correct for feed into PowerBi weld performance statistics.
Perform internal audits in relation to welding inspection and NDT process.
Support external audit for welding inspection and NDT process e.g., Client audit or LRQA ISO 9001 audit.
Raise and/or contribute to Non-Conformance Report corrective action, preventative action and closure for welding/NDT related issues.
Problem solving and continuous improvement within welding inspection and NDT.
Required qualifications

CSWIP 3.1 Welding Ins