Welding Engineer
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Job Overview: The Welding Engineer applies their conceptual knowledge of Welding and, with a moderate level of guidance and direction from colleagues and leadership, is responsible for solving a range of straightforward Welding problems.
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Job Overview
The Welding Engineer applies their conceptual knowledge of Welding and, with a moderate level of guidance and direction from colleagues and leadership, is responsible for solving a range of straightforward Welding problems.
They will be responsible for analyzing possible solutions using standard procedures and building knowledge of the company, processes, and customers.
The Welding Engineer understands critical business drivers and applies this knowledge to solve problems in straightforward situations by analyzing possible solutions using technical experience, judgment, and precedents.
Key Tasks And Responsibilities
- Responsible for the development of project welding procedures that comply with the applicable design, engineering, and construction codes, standards, and project specifications
- Responsible for maintaining the project welder qualification program
- Review customer drawings/specifications for material and welding requirements to determine the necessary WPS/PQR required to ensure the integrity of the weldment
- Select the electrode/consumables and estimate quantities required for the project
- Source materials required for WPS/PQR's
- Determine joint design
- Optimize the welding process
- Apply code and specification requirements to the proposed WPS
- Develop project and task-specific Welding Qualification Execution plans
- Submittal of WPS PQR packages for the project
- Toolbox talks and conducting welding kick-offs
- Qualify welding procedures and welder qualifications through the execution of the welding plan
- Supervise PQRs on-site and witness tests at the laboratory
- Prepare weld procedure specifications
- Review welder qualification tests and approve documentation
- Assess the quantity of production weld testing required and ensure their timely performance and testing
- Consult with the customer’s engineers and Production Supervisor on metallurgical and welding problems to determine or implement resolution
- Assist in the development of automatic welding systems and new methodology (for AWS Engineer)
- Supervise/monitor work at the metallurgical laboratory
- Supervise the welding school activities
- Supervise welder training
- Vendor’s welding documents review
- Liaise with Welding School Supervisor, Production Supervisor, Certifying Authority
Essential Qualifications And Education
- 4-year BS Degree in Welding Engineering/Metallurgical Engineering/Mechanical Engineering
- 3+ years in Welding/Metallurgy aspects for Fabrication and Construction Industry
- Welding technology preferred
- Understanding of NDT techniques preferred
- Inspection Qualification preferred
About Us
Our ingenuity fuels daily life. Together, we’ve forged some of the most trusted partnerships across the energy value chain to make what was once just an idea a reality: laying subsea infrastructure thousands of feet below sea level, installing platforms hundreds of miles from shore, using our expertise to design and build offshore wind infrastructure, and reshaping the onshore landscape to deliver the energy products the world needs safely and sustainably.
For more than 100 years, we've been making the impossible possible.
Today, we're driving the energy transition with more than 30,000 of the brightest minds across 54 countries.
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