Quality Control Inspector - Full-time

Position Summary:
Thermal Engineering International (USA) Inc. designs and fabricates high quality Pressure Vessels and Heat Transfer Equipment for the power generation and process industries worldwide. TEi's product line includes a wide variety of main steam condensers, feedwater heaters, moisture separator reheaters (MSRs) and auxiliary heat exchangers. This role is responsible for the quality of Company products as required by all applicable codes and specifications. Inspect, test, sort, sample, or weigh raw materials or processed, machined, fabricated, or assembled parts or products for defects, wear, and deviations from specifications. May use precision measuring instruments and complex test equipment. May be assigned to do other jobs including assisting other employees; and shall be responsible for maintaining a clean place to work, may need to perform NDE to meet code and/or specification requirements.
Essential Responsibilities:
• Segregate, reject and document products, materials, and equipment not meeting specifications.
• Analyze and interpret blueprints, data, manuals, and other materials to determine specifications, inspection and testing procedures, adjustment and certification methods, formulas, and measuring instruments required.
• Inspect, test, or measure materials, products, installations, and work for conformance to
specifications.
• Notify supervisors and other personnel of production problems and assist in identifying and correcting these problems.
• Discuss inspection results with those responsible for products and recommend necessary corrective actions.
• Record inspections or test data, such as weights, temperatures, grades, or moisture content, and quantities inspected or graded.
• Mark items with details such as grade and acceptance or rejections status.
• Observe and monitor production operations and equipment to ensure conformance to specifications and make or order necessary process or assembly adjustments.
• Measure dimensions of products to verify conformance to specifications, using measuring instruments such as rulers, calipers, gauge, or micrometers.
• Analyze test data and make computations as necessary to determine test results.
• Collect or select samples for testing or for use as models.
• Check arriving materials to ensure that they match purchase orders and submit discrepancy reports when problems are found.
• Compare colors, shapes, textures, or grades of products or materials with color charts, templates, or samples to verify conformance to standards.
• Write test and inspection reports describing results, recommendations, and needed repairs.
• Read dials and meters to verify that equipment is functioning at specified levels.
• Clean, maintain, repair, and calibrate measuring instruments and test equipment such as dial indicators, fixed gauges, and height gauges.
• Position products, components, or parts for testing, or direct other workers to position them.
• Make minor adjustments to equipment, such as turning setscrews to calibrate instruments to required tolerances.
• Set controls, start and monitor machines that automatically measure, sort, or inspect products.
• Interpret legal requirements, provide safe information, and recommend compliance procedures to contractors, craft workers, engineers, and property owners.
• Compute defect percentages or averages, using formulas and calculators, and prepare reports of inspection or test findings.
• Weigh materials, products, containers, or samples to verify packaging weights and ingredient quantities, or to determine sorting.
• Administer tests to engineers and operators to assess whether they are qualified to use equipment.
• Disassemble defective parts and components, such as inaccurate or worn gauges and measuring instruments, using hand tools.
• Perform NDE (BLT, MT, VT, PT) as required by MITP, code, and customer specification requirements.

Job Requirements / Skills, Knowledge and Abilities:

• High School Graduate or General Education Degree (GED)
• Minimum 5 years' experience
• ASNT-TC-1A Level II Bubble Leak Testing
• ASNT-TC-1A Level II Dye Penetrant Testing (PT)
• ASNT-TC-1A Level II Visual Inspection with Dimensional Inspection (Weld & Dimensional)
• ASNT-TC-1A Level II Magnetic Particle (MT)
• ASNT-TC-1A Level II Radiography Testing (RT)
• AWS CWI
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, both written and oral
• Must be organized and be able to work under pressure to meet deadlines and be able to work independently with minimal supervision
• Ability to identify and respond quickly to correct conditions that affect Employee Safety
• Knowledge of Excel and Word
• Microsoft Outlook
  
  Other Physical Requirements:
  • Vision (Near, Distance, Color, Depth Perception)
  • Ability to wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) (Safety eye wear, gloves, steel toe shoes, hearing protection)
  
  Work Environment:
  • Manufacturing Environment with temperatures extremes, hazards from things like lasers or welding arc, or other environmental hazards.