Welding Program Engineer
About The Position
The Welding Program Engineer works in the Strategic Engineering department, within the Engineering Programs section. The role is responsible for preparing, implementing, and maintaining the welding program to promote equipment reliability and ensure compliance with regulations and commitments. The engineer provides technical oversight to personnel planning and carrying out welding activities, and interfaces with Projects and Maintenance to oversee those activities. The position includes maintaining program documentation and the weld database, assessing and communicating program health, participating in applicable industry activities, and providing oversight of welding equipment testing and contractor welding and mock-up activities. Work is performed in the field and/or at the work site. Overtime, alternate schedules, callouts, travel, carrying a phone, and rotational engineering duty may be required.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or engineering technology.
- Working knowledge of ASME Section IX, AWS D1.1, AWS D9.1, ASME III Subsection NX-4000 and NX-5000, ASME Section XI, ASME/ANSI B31.1, API 1104, and ASME Section VIII.
- Ability to obtain and maintain unescorted access.
- Successfully complete General Employee Training (GET) as required for the position.
Nice To Haves
- Working knowledge of ASME Section IX, AWS D1.1, AWS D9.1, ASME III Subsection NX-4000 and NX-5000, ASME Section XI, ASME/ANSI B31.1, API 1104, and ASME Section VIII.
- Current or previous American Welding Society (AWS) Certified Welding Inspector (CWI) certification.
Responsibilities
- Ensure program scope and activities comply with changes in regulations and industry guidance.
- Prepare, implement, and maintain the site welding program.
- Interface with Projects and Maintenance to provide technical oversight of welding activities.
- Prepare and maintain program reports and procedures for record retention as required by regulation.
- Participate in industry activities, including user groups, training, program self-assessments, benchmarking, and ASME Code Meetings, as applicable.
- Assess, monitor, and communicate the health of programs.
- Advocate for the needs and continued improvement of assigned programs through forums such as management presentations and health reports.
- Maintain the weld database, including improvements and revisions.
- Provide technical oversight for testing and verification of new models of welding equipment.
- Monitor welding and mock-up activities performed by specialty welding contractors on and off site.
- Accept an Emergency Response Organization (ERO) position as needed.
- Accept an outage position as needed.
- Obtain and maintain unescorted access.
- Successfully complete General Employee Training (GET) as required for the position.
- Support rotational engineering duty.
