Quality Engineer

Liberty Personnel Services, Inc.; Manville (NJ); On-site; USD 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Liberty Personnel Services, Inc. is seeking a Mechanical Quality Engineer to join a heavy industrial equipment team in New Jersey. You will oversee quality assurance activities on fabrication, welding, and assembly of large machinery for infrastructure, power, and petrochemical sectors.

The role emphasizes inspection, documentation, and adherence to standards (AWS, ASME, NACE, API). Strong communication and root-cause analysis skills are essential to drive nonconformances to closure.

Qualifications

• Associate or Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or related discipline.
• 2-5 years of QA/QC experience in metal fabrication with welding.
• Familiar with AWS, ASME, NACE, AISC, ASNT, API standards.
• Experience with dimensional inspection and interpreting drawings.
• Strong written and verbal communication; proactive at identifying risks.

Responsibilities

• Monitor supplier manufacturing through inspections and quality records.
• Verify compliance of structural steel, vessels, skids, and equipment with specs.
• Perform or coordinate welding, dimensional, erection, painting, and alignment inspections.
• Develop QC plans and testing procedures for project requirements.
• Evaluate vendor documentation; coordinate corrective actions.
• Investigate quality failures via root cause analysis and track corrective actions.
• Prepare inspection reports and communicate findings to stakeholders.
• Review project codes/specs and contribute to design reviews.
• Coordinate vendor inspections with clients, procurement, and logistics.
• Maintain inspection schedules, calibration records, NCRs, OS&D logs, and MDRs.
• Organize quality meetings and distribute minutes; maintain third-party inspection data.
• Provide technical guidance and training to team members.
• Perform other duties as assigned by QA/QC Director.

Skills

Quality assurance

Quality control

Dimensional inspection

Engineering drawings interpretation

Quality standards familiarity

Communication skills

Root cause analysis

Proactive quality risk management

Education

Associate or Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering

Job description

Mechanical Quality Engineer - Heavy Industrial Equipment

$85,0000 to $115,000 + Bonus

Mechanical Quality Engineer opportunity with a very well-established industry leading engineering firm who designs and builds large industrial machinery for the infrastructure, power, petrochemical, and manufacturing industries.

Requirements:

• Associate or Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, or related discipline.
• 2-5 years of quality assurance, quality control experience in a metal fabrication and with welding processes.
• Familiarity with applicable standards, including American Welding Society, ASME, NACE, AISC, ASNT, and API
• Experience with dimensional inspection.
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings, project specifications, and technical documentation.
• Rotating equipment knowledge preferred, but not mandatory.
• Strong written and verbal communication.
• Proactive approach to identifying quality risks and preventing nonconformances.

Responsibilities:

• Monitor supplier manufacturing and fabrication activities through inspections, audits, and review of quality records.
• Verify compliance of structural steel, pressure vessels, skids, mechanical equipment, and other commodities with project specifications and applicable codes.
• Perform or coordinate inspections covering welding, bolting, dimensional accuracy, structural steel erection, painting, equipment installation and alignment, trial assembly, preservation, storage, and completion of scope.
• Establish inspection and testing procedures and develop quality control plans for project requirements.
• Evaluate vendor documentation and inspection results; identify deficiencies and coordinate corrective action.
• Investigate quality failures through root cause analysis and track corrective measures through resolution.
• Prepare inspection reports and communicate quality findings to management, suppliers, customers, and project stakeholders.
• Review project codes and specifications and contribute to design reviews to ensure quality requirements are addressed.
• Coordinate vendor inspections and third-party inspectors with clients and purchasing, expediting, and logistics personnel.
• Maintain inspection schedules, calibration records, quality databases, nonconformance reports (NCRs), over, short, and damaged (OS&D) logs, and other quality records.
• Maintain commissioning and preservation documentation and review or compile final Manufacturing Data Record (MDR) books as required.
• Organize quality meetings, document discussions, and distribute meeting minutes.
• Maintain and expand the third-party inspection sourcing database.
• Coordinate quality programs and provide technical guidance and training to team members.
• Perform other duties as assigned by the QA/QC Director.