Certified Welding Inspector

Nelson Global Products Inc.; Indianapolis (IN); On-site; USD 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Certified Weld Inspector to enhance weld quality and compliance. This role involves maintaining the certified welding program, ensuring adherence to industry standards, and collaborating with engineering and production teams. You will utilize your expertise in welding processes and measurement tools to solve production issues and improve efficiency. Join a company dedicated to employee safety and community engagement, where your contributions will significantly impact the quality of metal forming solutions provided to various markets. This is an excellent opportunity to advance your career in a supportive and innovative environment.

Qualifications

• Certified weld inspector certification required, preferably D1.1 codebook.
• Thorough knowledge of welding processes and symbology is essential.

Responsibilities

• Maintain certified welding program, including testing and evaluation.
• Ensure compliance with all certifications and testing required by customers.
• Investigate and propose new welding equipment or processes for improvement.

Skills

GTAW (TIG) welding processes

GMAW (MIG) welding processes

Welding symbology

Weld measurement equipment

AWS and ASME code documentation

Education

AWS Certified weld inspector certification

Tools

Calipers

Feeler gages

Fillet gage

Bridge-cam gage

Job description

Fortune Circle
2840 Fortune Cir W, Suite C
Indianapolis, IN 46241, USA

COMPANY OVERVIEW: Nelson Global Products provides superior metal forming solutions worldwide to the Commercial, Recreational Vehicle and Industrial markets by executing lean principles, empowering our employees, and leveraging our global footprint. We are focused on the health and safety of our employees, partnering with our customers, giving back to the communities we live in and protecting our natural environment.

POSITION OVERVIEW: A Certified weld inspector (CWI) assists the Engineering, Production, and Quality department to plan and evaluate weldment quality per customer and industry code requirements. The CWI directs and leads weld quality improvement and solves issues arising in production regarding welding procedures and requirements. CWI also maintains the certified weld program by testing and certifying welding employees per customer and industry requirements.

PRIMARY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

1. Responsible for maintaining the certified welding program, including weld testing and evaluation.
2. Responsible for ensuring the company is in compliance with all certifications and testing required by customers (WPS, PQR, WPQR) and maintain all records.
3. Interpret and implement technical documentation (Code books, specifications, Lab reports, rejection/Quality reports).
4. Works closely with Engineering, Production, and Quality to ensure proper weld requirements and procedures are followed.
5. Fills out and approves welding set-up sheets.
6. Investigates and proposes new welding equipment or processes that would be beneficial to the company to increase weld quality or efficiency.
7. Helps resolve weld-related failures from customer rejections and reduce internal leak rejections to minimize reworking parts.
8. Develop tooling or techniques to implement more efficient processes during production and reduce non-welding labor.
9. Using measurement tools such as calipers, micrometer and weld gages to verify weld dimensions, signing off on job start-up.
10. Contact and collaborate with customers and vendors on issues regarding welding and weld quality via phone, email, or in-person conferences.
11. Complete tracking sheets for weld defects found. Communicate the issues to the area creating it.
12. Train/evaluate production welders, maintain welder qualification records.
13. All other projects and tasks as assigned.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:

AWS Certified weld inspector certification (D1.1 preferred codebook).

SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• Thorough knowledge of the GTAW (TIG) and GMAW (MIG) welding processes.
• Knowledge of welding symbology.
• Knowledge of the use of weld measurement equipment (calipers, feeler gages, fillet gage, bridge-cam gage).
• Knowledge and understanding of AWS and ASME code documentation.

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