Nuclear Quality Engineer – Field & Fabrication

Aecon U.S.; Aiken (SC); On-site; USD 85,000 - 112,000; Full time

Job summary

Aecon is hiring a Quality Engineer in the United States (Aiken, SC) to support quality engineering activities for safety-related structures, systems, and services. You will work with field construction, fabrication, and suppliers to ensure compliance with ASME NQA-1, 10 CFR, and project specifications.

The role emphasizes right-first-time execution, documentation, and coordination across engineering, construction, procurement, and QA teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Materials, or a related technical field.
• Experience in nuclear, power, EPC, heavy industrial, or other highly regulated construction environments.
• Working knowledge of ASME NQA-1, 10 CFR 50 Appendix B, 10 CFR 830, ASME Section VIII, and applying these requirements to field construction, fabrication, documentation, and turnover.
• Strong communication, technical writing, analytical and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide quality engineering oversight for construction and fabrication activities to verify compliance with approved procedures, inspection and test plans, design documents, and applicable regulatory and code requirements.
• Apply applicable quality requirements from ASME NQA-1, ASME Section VIII, 10 CFR 50 Appendix B, 10 CFR 830, project specifications, and customer contract documents across construction and supplier scopes.
• Develop, review, and maintain quality plans, inspection plans, work instructions, checklists, and turnover documentation packages supporting field construction, module fabrication, and equipment installation.
• Coordinate with engineering, construction, procurement, and project teams to ensure quality requirements are flowed down to subcontractors, fabricators, and suppliers.
• Provide quality engineering support for construction and fabrication special processes including welding, nondestructive examination, heat treatment, coating and lining applications, bolting controls, and other qualified processes.
• Review quality documentation such as welding qualifications, material traceability, concrete batch records, test reports, inspection reports, and turnover packages.

Job description

Aecon is hiring a Quality Engineer in the United States (Aiken, SC) to support quality engineering activities for safety-related structures, systems, and services. You will work with field construction, fabrication, and suppliers to ensure compliance with ASME NQA-1, 10 CFR, and project specifications.

The role emphasizes right-first-time execution, documentation, and coordination across engineering, construction, procurement, and QA teams.