Jobs at Western Development Company Limited (WDCL)

Function: Quality Records, Document Control, and Handover

Reports to: Quality Manager / Project Document Control Lead

Supervises: Document control assistants, as assigned

Role Purpose

Control quality documents and records throughout their life cycle so that approved information is available at the point of use and final QA dossiers are complete, traceable, correctly indexed, and accepted at project handover.

Key Responsibilities

• Implement document numbering, metadata, templates, workflows, revision/status codes, approval matrices, transmittals, and retention requirements.
• Receive, register, quality-check, route, issue, distribute, and archive quality plans, procedures, ITPs, inspection reports, NCRs, audits, certificates, and technical records.
• Maintain controlled registers and ensure superseded or unapproved documents are removed from points of use while retaining an auditable history.
• Coordinate review and approval cycles, monitor overdue responses, and provide accurate document-status reports to responsible owners.
• Manage contractor and vendor quality-document requirements, master document registers, manufacturing records, inspection releases, and final data books.
• Compile system-based QA dossiers/test packs containing material traceability, weld/NDT/coating records, calibration, test results, punch closure, and acceptance evidence.
• Check documents for completeness, signatures, dates, legibility, cross-references, revision consistency, and alignment with the handover index.
• Support mechanical completion, commissioning, as-built, and project-closeout processes, including reconciliation of electronic and hard-copy records.
• Protect confidential information, maintain access controls and backups, and support audits by retrieving reliable records promptly.

Qualifications and Experience

Minimum Requirements

• HND or bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Information/Records Management, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
• Typically 5 or more years of document control or quality-records experience on oil and gas, EPC, construction, fabrication, or asset-integrity projects.
• Demonstrated experience with electronic document management systems, transmittals, registers, contractor/vendor documents, and QA dossier compilation.
• Understanding of inspection, welding/NDT, material, test-pack, NCR, audit, and handover record relationships.
• Exceptional accuracy, organisation, confidentiality, follow-up, and stakeholder-service skills.

Preferred Certifications and Standards Knowledge

• Document/records management, ISO 9001, or information-governance training is advantageous.
• Experience with major EDMS platforms and spreadsheet-based registers is preferred.
• Awareness of project completions, configuration management, retention, and data-protection requirements.

Core Competencies

• Revision and distribution control
• Quality-record completeness and traceability
• EDMS/register administration
• QA dossier and handover compilation
• Accurate status reporting and follow-up

Key Performance Measures

• Documents processed and distributed within target time
• Overdue reviews and missing records reduced
• Zero use of obsolete or unapproved controlled documents
• QA dossiers accepted first pass or with minimal comments
• Audit retrieval requests fulfilled accurately and promptly

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Role Purpose

Inspect oil-spill preparedness and field response activities to verify that containment, recovery, shoreline/land protection, waste handling, equipment readiness, and response records meet approved plans, environmental requirements, and safe-work controls.

Key Responsibilities

• Inspect spill-response bases, kits, booms, skimmers, pumps, tanks, sorbents, PPE, communications, boats/vehicles, and support equipment for availability and serviceability.
• Verify inventory, maintenance, inspection tags, calibration, deployment readiness, access routes, and mobilisation arrangements against response plans.
• Participate in drills and exercises, observe deployment and command interfaces, record gaps, and track improvement actions.
• During an incident, inspect source-control support, containment, recovery, transfer, temporary storage, shoreline/land protection, and cleanup activities.
• Monitor contractor practices, exclusion zones, ignition control, water safety, manual handling, decontamination, and use of suitable PPE.
• Document affected areas, response tactics, recovered volumes, equipment use, waste streams, photographs, coordinates, samples, and chain of custody as assigned.
• Verify recovered oil, contaminated soil/water, sorbents, and debris are classified, contained, transported, and handed over to approved waste routes.
• Escalate ineffective containment, secondary pollution, wildlife/community risk, unsafe practices, or gaps in equipment and personnel capability.
• Prepare daily inspection summaries, demobilisation checks, after-action findings, and auditable evidence for regulatory and management review.

Qualifications and Experience

Minimum Requirements

• HND or bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science, Engineering, Marine Studies, Occupational Safety, or a related discipline.
• Typically 5 or more years of environmental inspection, oil-spill response, emergency response, marine operations, pipeline operations, or HSE experience.
• Practical knowledge of containment/recovery equipment, field documentation, waste handling, environmental protection, and incident command interfaces.
• Physical capability to work outdoors, near water, in remote terrain, and during extended emergency-response operations.
• Strong observation, photographic documentation, record keeping, and calm stakeholder communication.

Preferred Certifications and Standards Knowledge

• Recognised oil-spill response or incident-command training is strongly preferred.
• NEBOSH or equivalent HSE certification is advantageous.
• Boat/water safety, first aid, HAZWOPER/hazardous-material, sampling, or waste-management training is desirable according to deployment.

Core Competencies

• Response equipment readiness inspection
• Containment, recovery, and cleanup surveillance
• Environmental and waste-chain traceability
• Emergency field documentation
• Safe contractor and community interface

Key Performance Measures

• Response equipment available and serviceable
• Drill and inspection findings closed by target dates
• Incident inspection records complete and timely
• Recovered material and waste fully traceable
• No avoidable secondary pollution or unsafe response practice

Reporting and Interfaces

Internal interfaces: HSE/environment, emergency response, operations, pipeline/terminal teams, security, logistics, medical, and community relations.

External interfaces: Response contractors, regulators, waste contractors, laboratories, marine providers, landowners/communities, and specialist advisers.

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Function: Quality Performance, Analytics, and Improvement

Reports to: Quality Manager / Project Controls Manager

Supervises: None

Role Purpose

Turn inspection, audit, NCR, rework, supplier, completion, and document data into reliable insight that enables project and operations leaders to prioritise risk, improve performance, and prevent recurrence.

Key Responsibilities

• Define quality data requirements, KPI definitions, coding rules, data ownership, reporting frequency, and validation checks.
• Consolidate and cleanse data from inspection requests, ITPs, NCRs, audits, weld/NDT registers, coating reports, test packs, supplier records, and handover systems.
• Build and maintain dashboards, scorecards, trend reports, Pareto analyses, ageing reports, and early-warning indicators.
• Analyse defect, rework, repair, overdue action, audit, vendor, and first-pass acceptance trends by discipline, contractor, system, location, and period.
• Validate source-to-report traceability and challenge incomplete, duplicated, inconsistent, or misleading data before publication.
• Partner with QA/QC and delivery teams to investigate adverse trends and quantify causes, impacts, action effectiveness, and residual risk.
• Prepare weekly and monthly quality performance packs, management-review inputs, and concise narratives explaining material changes.
• Maintain controlled master data, reporting templates, quality registers, and lessons-learned datasets with appropriate access and revision control.
• Automate repeatable data preparation and reporting where practical while retaining transparent, auditable calculations and source links.

Qualifications and Experience

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or HND in Engineering, Quality, Data/Statistics, Information Systems, or a related discipline.
• Typically 5 or more years of quality, inspection, project-controls, or operational data experience, including at least 2 years of analytics/reporting responsibility.
• Strong spreadsheet and dashboard capability; experience with databases, BI tools, or scripting is advantageous.
• Understanding of QA/QC processes, inspection/NCR lifecycles, audit data, completions, and supplier quality.
• Excellent data-quality discipline, analytical reasoning, visual communication, and technical writing.

Preferred Certifications and Standards Knowledge

• Quality, data analytics, business intelligence, or statistical certification is advantageous.
• ISO 9001 awareness or auditor training is preferred.
• Familiarity with project controls, document management, inspection-management, or completions systems is desirable.

Core Competencies

• Data governance and validation
• Quality KPI and dashboard design
• Trend, Pareto, ageing, and root-cause analysis
• Clear management reporting
• Auditable reporting automation

Key Performance Measures

• Reports issued accurately and on schedule
• Source-to-dashboard reconciliation and data completeness
• Actionable trends identified before major impact
• Reduction in manual reporting effort and duplicate data
• Stakeholder use and acceptance of quality insights

Reporting and Interfaces

Internal interfaces: Quality, inspection, project controls, engineering, construction, procurement, completions, operations, IT, and document control teams.

External interfaces: Clients, contractors, vendors, third-party inspectors, and system/reporting service providers.

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Function: Supply Chain Quality and Assurance

Reports to: Quality Manager / Procurement Manager

Supervises: Audit team members or inspection coordinators, as assigned

Role Purpose

Provide independent, risk-based quality audits and proactive vendor expediting to ensure suppliers comply with contractual quality requirements and deliver materials, equipment, and documentation in line with the project schedule.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop audit and expediting plans based on supplier criticality, manufacturing complexity, quality risk, and required-on-site dates.
• Review purchase orders, vendor quality plans, manufacturing schedules, ITPs, suborders, document registers, and inspection assignments.
• Conduct supplier QMS, process, product, and project-specific audits; record objective evidence and classify findings consistently.
• Monitor engineering submissions, material procurement, subvendor progress, fabrication, testing, preservation, packing, and shipping readiness.
• Verify that quality hold points, source inspections, FATs, NDT, certifications, and inspection releases are completed before dispatch.
• Identify schedule and quality risks early, validate recovery plans, and escalate slippage, capacity constraints, unresolved NCRs, or document gaps.
• Facilitate root-cause analysis and track supplier corrective actions to effective closure.
• Issue concise visit reports, audit reports, milestone forecasts, exception lists, and expediting dashboards with evidence-based status.
• Coordinate procurement, engineering, logistics, inspection, and vendor teams so materials and final documentation arrive together and are acceptance-ready.

Qualifications and Experience

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or HND in Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, or a related discipline.
• Typically 7 or more years of quality auditing, supplier quality, vendor inspection, procurement quality, or expediting experience.
• Demonstrated ability to audit QMS/processes and to evaluate realistic manufacturing progress beyond reported percentages.
• Strong knowledge of vendor documentation, inspection release, FAT, preservation, packing, logistics, and final data-book requirements.
• Excellent interviewing, negotiation, analytical reporting, and stakeholder-escalation skills.

Preferred Certifications and Standards Knowledge

• ISO 9001 Lead Auditor certification is strongly preferred.
• Relevant technical inspection certification (CSWIP, API, ASNT/ISO 9712, AMPP/NACE) is advantageous for assigned commodities.
• Professional procurement, quality, or engineering membership is desirable.

Core Competencies

• Risk-based auditing
• Manufacturing-schedule verification
• Supplier corrective-action management
• Quality-gate and inspection-release control
• Clear forecasting and executive escalation

Key Performance Measures

• Critical supplier audits/visits completed to plan
• Vendor milestones achieved against required dates
• Quality and schedule risks escalated with sufficient lead time
• Supplier findings closed effectively and without recurrence
• Materials and final documentation accepted at delivery

Reporting and Interfaces

Internal interfaces: Quality, procurement, engineering, inspection, planning, logistics, construction, and document control teams.

External interfaces: Suppliers, subvendors, third-party inspectors, freight providers, clients, certification bodies, and testing laboratories.

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Function: Non-Destructive Testing and Weld Quality

Reports to: NDT Level III / QA/QC Engineer

Supervises: NDT technicians, where authorised

Role Purpose

Perform, witness, and review non-destructive testing of welds, materials, and equipment, ensuring methods, personnel, procedures, equipment, interpretation, and records meet the approved code and project acceptance criteria.

Key Responsibilities

• Review NDT procedures, technique sheets, examination coverage, acceptance criteria, drawings, weld maps, and inspection requests before testing.
• Verify technician certification, visual acuity, method authorisation, equipment calibration, reference standards, consumables, and environmental conditions.
• Perform or witness VT, PT, MT, UT and radiographic-film interpretation within certified competence and employer authorisation.
• Confirm surface condition, examination stage, identification, orientation, datum, scanning pattern, sensitivity, coverage, and traceability.
• Interpret indications accurately, distinguish relevant from non-relevant responses, and evaluate results against the specified code.
• Issue clear NDT reports with weld/component identity, method, equipment, calibration, coverage, indication details, disposition, and examiner approval.
• Maintain weld/NDT status, repair-cycle traceability, rejection trends, and release status so unaccepted work is not coated, tested, or concealed.
• Monitor radiation-safety interfaces for radiography and coordinate exclusion zones and permits with the authorised radiation team.
• Escalate ambiguous, significant, recurring, or out-of-scope indications to the responsible Level III and support root-cause and repair verification.

Qualifications and Experience

Minimum Requirements

• Technical diploma/HND or bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Materials, Welding, or a related technical discipline.
• Typically 5 or more years of industrial NDT experience on welds, piping, pipelines, tanks, structures, or pressure equipment.
• Current employer authorisation and documented experience for each method performed or interpreted.
• Ability to read weld maps, isometrics, drawings, NDT procedures, and code acceptance criteria.
• Strong attention to indication evaluation, report accuracy, and traceability.

Preferred Certifications and Standards Knowledge

• ASNT SNT-TC-1A, ASNT CP-189, ISO 9712, or equivalent Level II certification in the required methods.
• Radiographic-film interpretation certification/authorisation where film review is part of the role.
• Knowledge of ASME Section V/IX, ASME B31 series, AWS D1.1, API 650/653/570, ASTM E165/E709, and project-specific acceptance criteria as applicable.

Core Competencies

• NDT method execution and interpretation
• Procedure and calibration compliance
• Indication evaluation and code acceptance
• Weld-status and repair-cycle traceability
• Radiation-safety interface awareness

Key Performance Measures

• NDT completed within inspection schedule
• Reports accepted without traceability or interpretation errors
• No unauthorised release of rejected or unexamined work
• Repair and rejection trends reported promptly
• Calibration and personnel certification maintained without lapse

Reporting and Interfaces

Internal interfaces: Welding, QC, construction, pipeline/tank inspection, materials, HSE, and document control teams.

External interfaces: Client inspectors, NDT contractors, laboratories, radiation-safety personnel, and Level III authorities.

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Function: Pressure Safety Device Inspection and Certification

Reports to: Mechanical Integrity Engineer / Inspection Authority

Supervises: Valve technicians and test-bench personnel, as assigned

Role Purpose

Inspect, witness, and document the removal, overhaul, testing, certification, preservation, and reinstallation of pressure safety and relief valves so that each device is traceable, correctly set, leak-tight, and fit for its designated service.

Key Responsibilities

• Verify valve identification, tag number, service, set pressure, inlet/outlet data, due date, and maintenance history against the approved register and data sheet.
• Witness as-found testing and record pop/set pressure, seat leakage, blowdown, and observed condition before dismantling where practicable.
• Inspect bodies, bonnets, nozzles, discs, spindles, springs, bellows, seals, threads, flanges, and internal components for damage, wear, corrosion, or contamination.
• Review repair, machining, replacement-part, cleaning, lapping, assembly, and torque activities against approved procedures and OEM requirements.
• Confirm test bench, gauges, pressure sources, media, adapters, and measurement devices are suitable and within calibration.
• Witness final set-pressure, seat-tightness, blowdown, and functional tests and ensure results meet applicable tolerances.
• Verify sealing, tagging, paint coding, preservation, transport protection, installation orientation, isolation removal, and flange/bolt integrity.
• Review and accept test certificates, repair reports, calibration records, material/part records, and status updates in the relief-device register.
• Raise NCRs or quarantine devices with failed tests, unapproved parts, traceability gaps, or unsafe condition and escalate critical availability risks.

Qualifications and Experience

Minimum Requirements

• HND or bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Materials, Instrumentation, or a related engineering discipline; experienced technicians may qualify with equivalent competence evidence.
• Typically 5 or more years of pressure-relief-device inspection, valve maintenance, test-bench, or mechanical-integrity experience.
• Working knowledge of valve construction, set-pressure testing, seat leakage, calibration, tagging, preservation, and certification.
• Ability to interpret data sheets, P&IDs, maintenance history, test procedures, and acceptance tolerances.
• High attention to traceability and safety-critical documentation.

Preferred Certifications and Standards Knowledge

• API 576/527 training or relevant OEM/pressure-relief-device certification is preferred.
• ASNT/ISO 9712 Level II is advantageous where NDT forms part of the inspection scope.
• Working knowledge of applicable ASME/API pressure-relief requirements, client procedures, and calibration-control standards.

Core Competencies

• Relief-device inspection and test witnessing
• Calibration and test-bench assurance
• Safety-critical traceability
• Defect recognition and disposition
• Certificate and register accuracy

Key Performance Measures

• Devices tested and returned before due date
• As-left results within approved tolerance
• Certificates and register updates accurate and complete
• Failed devices quarantined and risks escalated promptly
• Zero incorrect tagging, set pressure, or service reinstatement

Reporting and Interfaces

Internal interfaces: Operations, maintenance, mechanical integrity, instrumentation, planning, stores, HSE, and document control teams.

External interfaces: Valve workshops, OEMs, calibration providers, client inspectors, and third-party certification bodies.

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Function: Storage Tank Construction and Integrity

Reports to: Tank/Mechanical Integrity Engineer / QA/QC Manager

Supervises: None

Role Purpose

Inspect storage-tank construction, rehabilitation, repair, and in-service integrity activities, verifying conformance with approved design, API requirements, welding/coating procedures, and safe return-to-service criteria.

Key Responsibilities

• Review tank drawings, repair scopes, inspection history, settlement data, material specifications, WPS/PQRs, ITPs, NDT, coating, and hydrotest procedures.
• Inspect foundations, annular plates, bottom plates, shell courses, roof, nozzles, manways, reinforcement, structural attachments, and appurtenances.
• Verify material identification, dimensions, plumbness, roundness, settlement, fit-up, weld preparation, welder qualifications, and welding controls.
• Coordinate VT, PT/MT, UT, radiographic interpretation, vacuum-box testing, leak testing, and other specified examinations.
• Monitor weld repairs, plate replacement, patching, nozzle work, jacking, structural repair, and reinspection against approved procedures.
• Inspect internal linings, external coatings, surface preparation, DFT, holiday testing, and corrosion-control provisions.
• Witness hydrostatic testing, settlement monitoring, roof/drain checks, cleaning, reinstatement, and pre-commissioning activities.
• Evaluate findings, raise punch items/NCRs, and support repair recommendations and fitness-for-service or engineering review where required.
• Compile complete inspection records, weld maps, NDT reports, test results, repair history, and tank handover dossier inputs.

Qualifications and Experience

Minimum Requirements

• HND or bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Materials/Metallurgical, Welding, Civil, or a related discipline.
• Typically 7 or more years of tank construction, repair, coating, or integrity inspection experience.
• Strong practical knowledge of tank welding, geometry, NDT, bottom leak testing, coating/lining, hydrotest, and settlement monitoring.
• Ability to interpret tank drawings, weld maps, inspection results, repair details, and acceptance criteria.
• Experience working safely in confined spaces and around hydrotest and lifting operations.

Preferred Certifications and Standards Knowledge

• API 653 certification is strongly preferred; API 650 construction experience is required for new-build assignments.
• CSWIP 3.1 and ASNT/ISO 9712 Level II are advantageous.
• AMPP/NACE coating certification is desirable for lining and coating scopes.

Core Competencies

• Tank construction and repair inspection
• Welding, NDT, and leak-test control
• Tank geometry and settlement verification
• Lining/coating inspection
• Integrity findings and dossier reporting

Key Performance Measures

• Tank inspection scope completed to plan
• Weld/NDT and leak-test first-pass acceptance
• Critical defects identified before hydrotest or return to service
• Repair and punch items closed on time
• Tank dossier accepted with complete traceability

Reporting and Interfaces

Internal interfaces: Tank engineering, construction, welding, coating, civil, commissioning, operations, asset integrity, and HSE teams.

External interfaces: Client inspectors, tank contractors, NDT/coating providers, laboratories, and specialist engineering assessors.

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Function: Regulatory Compliance and Asset Integrity Inspection

Reports to: Asset Integrity Manager / Inspection Authority

Supervises: None

Role Purpose

Plan, coordinate, and document statutory and code-required inspections for facility equipment and safety-critical assets, maintaining a reliable compliance register and ensuring overdue, defective, or uncertified items are controlled.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain the facility statutory inspection register, equipment inventory, inspection frequencies, due dates, certificates, and responsible parties.
• Confirm applicable legal, regulatory, code, manufacturer, and client requirements for pressure equipment, lifting equipment, storage systems, relief devices, and other assigned assets.
• Develop risk-informed inspection schedules and scopes and coordinate access, isolation, preparation, and competent-person resources.
• Review equipment history, previous findings, repairs, operating conditions, and certification status before inspection.
• Perform or witness visual examination, functional tests, NDT, thickness measurement, load tests, pressure tests, and specialist examinations within authorised competence.
• Evaluate inspection results against acceptance criteria and define restrictions, repairs, reinspection, or removal from service where necessary.
• Verify third-party competence, calibration, approved procedures, and certificate accuracy before accepting statutory records.
• Track findings and integrity actions to closure and escalate overdue inspections or high-risk defects to accountable management.
• Provide auditable compliance reports, dashboards, certificates, and evidence for management, client, and regulatory assurance reviews.

Qualifications and Experience

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or HND in Mechanical, Materials/Metallurgical, Electrical, Marine, or a relevant engineering discipline.
• Typically 7 or more years of inspection or asset-integrity experience in oil and gas, terminals, refineries, or industrial facilities.
• Demonstrated experience managing inspection registers, certification, competent-person activities, and integrity-action closure.
• Knowledge of pressure equipment, lifting appliances, tanks, relief devices, piping, and related facility safety-critical systems.
• Ability to interpret applicable regulations, code requirements, inspection reports, and equipment history.

Preferred Certifications and Standards Knowledge

• Relevant API, ASNT/ISO 9712, lifting-equipment, pressure-equipment, or competent-person certification is preferred according to scope.
• ISO 9001 auditor or asset-integrity training is advantageous.
• Working knowledge of applicable ASME, API, statutory, manufacturer, and client inspection requirements.

Core Competencies

• Statutory inspection planning
• Compliance-register and certificate control
• Risk-based defect evaluation
• Third-party competence assurance
• Clear escalation and integrity reporting

Key Performance Measures

• Statutory inspections completed before due date
• Certificates complete, accurate, and retrievable
• High-risk findings escalated and controlled promptly
• Overdue inspection backlog and repeat findings reduced
• Regulatory/client assurance reviews completed without major gaps

Reporting and Interfaces

Internal interfaces: Operations, maintenance, asset integrity, HSE, engineering, inspection planning, and document control teams.

External interfaces: Regulators, client assurance teams, competent persons, inspection bodies, OEMs, and specialist testing contractors.

HSE and Quality Commitment

Ensure equipment is safely isolated, depressurised, prepared, and accessed before inspection; statutory compliance never overrides permit-to-work or operational safety controls.

The role holder is expected to demonstrate integrity, objective judgement, respect for approved procedures, and a continual-improvement mindset. Responsibilities may be adjusted to suit project scope, risk, location, and contractual requirements.

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Function: Pipeline Construction and Integrity Inspection

Reports to: Pipeline QA/QC Lead / Construction QA/QC Engineer

Supervises: None

Role Purpose

Inspect pipeline construction, tie-in, testing, coating, and reinstatement activities to ensure the installed pipeline meets approved design, code, integrity, and client requirements and is supported by complete construction records.

Key Responsibilities

• Review route drawings, alignment sheets, isometrics, material specifications, WPS/PQRs, ITPs, test procedures, and approved construction methods.
• Verify pipe, fittings, valves, flanges, consumables, heat numbers, coating condition, storage, handling, and material traceability.
• Inspect joint preparation, fit-up, alignment, preheat, welding parameters, welder qualifications, weld identification, and weld mapping.
• Coordinate VT and NDT, review results and repair status, and ensure accepted welds are released before coating or concealment.
• Inspect field-joint coating, holiday testing, lowering-in, padding, crossings, trench condition, backfill, markers, and cathodic-protection interfaces.
• Witness gauging, cleaning, pressure testing, dewatering, drying, leak testing, reinstatement, and pre-commissioning activities.
• Verify tie-ins, dimensional control, flange management, bolt tightening, valve orientation, supports, and interface points at facilities.
• Raise and close observations, punch items, and NCRs; prevent unauthorised repairs or bypass of ITP hold points.
• Maintain daily reports, weld/NDT/coating/test registers, red-line records, and pipeline handover dossier inputs.

Qualifications and Experience

Minimum Requirements

• HND or bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Welding, Materials/Metallurgical, Pipeline, or a related discipline.
• Typically 7 or more years of pipeline construction or integrity inspection experience in oil and gas.
• Hands-on knowledge of pipeline welding, NDT, field-joint coating, hydrotesting, lowering-in, reinstatement, and documentation.
• Ability to read alignment sheets, isometrics, weld maps, test packs, and pipeline specifications.
• Readiness to work along rights-of-way, remote locations, terminals, crossings, or live-facility interfaces.

Preferred Certifications and Standards Knowledge

• CSWIP 3.1 Welding Inspector and ASNT/ISO 9712 Level II are strongly preferred.
• AMPP/NACE coating certification is advantageous.
• Working knowledge of ASME B31.4/B31.3 as applicable, ASME Section IX, API requirements, ASTM materials standards, and client pipeline specifications.

Core Competencies

• Pipeline welding and NDT surveillance
• Coating, lowering-in, and backfill inspection
• Hydrotest and pre-commissioning verification
• Material and weld traceability
• Route-based reporting and dossier control

Key Performance Measures

• Weld repair and NDT rejection rate
• Field-joint coating and holiday-test acceptance
• Pipeline test packs accepted first pass
• No unauthorised concealed work or missed hold points
• Complete weld, coating, test, and as-built records

Reporting and Interfaces

Internal interfaces: Pipeline engineering, construction, welding, coating, survey, testing, commissioning, HSE, and document control teams.

External interfaces: Client inspectors, pipeline contractors, NDT/coating providers, land/community interface teams, and laboratories.

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Function: Materials Quality, Receiving Inspection, and Traceability

Reports to: Materials/QA/QC Engineer / Procurement Quality Lead

Supervises: None

Role Purpose

Verify that purchased and delivered materials and equipment conform to purchase orders, specifications, approved drawings, certificates, and preservation requirements, with full traceability from manufacture through receipt, storage, issue, and installation.

Key Responsibilities

• Review purchase orders, material requisitions, technical specifications, data sheets, approved vendor documents, inspection assignments, and release notes.
• Perform or witness source and receiving inspections for pipes, fittings, flanges, plates, structural steel, valves, welding consumables, coatings, fasteners, and equipment.
• Verify quantity, dimensions, grade, heat/batch numbers, markings, physical condition, packaging, and conformity with approved documents.
• Review material test certificates and certificates of conformity for chemical, mechanical, heat-treatment, testing, and code compliance.
• Witness positive material identification, dimensional checks, hardness, impact, destructive or non-destructive tests when specified.
• Maintain material traceability and prevent commingling, substitution, damage, expiry, or use of unapproved material.
• Identify non-conforming or damaged materials, control quarantine status, and coordinate technical disposition and reinspection.
• Verify storage, preservation, segregation, environmental protection, shelf-life control, and issue practices at warehouses and laydown areas.
• Prepare receiving reports, inspection releases, punch lists, NCR inputs, and complete supporting records for QA dossiers.

Qualifications and Experience

Minimum Requirements

• HND or bachelor’s degree in Materials/Metallurgical, Mechanical, Welding, Production, or a related engineering discipline.
• Typically 5 or more years of materials inspection, vendor inspection, receiving inspection, or procurement quality experience.
• Ability to interpret material specifications, MTCs, ASTM/ASME grades, dimensional standards, and purchase-order requirements.
• Experience with traceability systems, preservation, non-conforming-material control, and vendor documentation.
• Competence with basic dimensional tools and material-identification methods.

Preferred Certifications and Standards Knowledge

• ASNT/ISO 9712 Level II or PMI/materials inspection training is advantageous.
• Welding inspector or API certification is desirable for piping and pressure-equipment materials.
• Working knowledge of relevant ASTM materials standards, ASME specifications, API requirements, and client preservation standards.

Core Competencies

• Material certification and traceability review
• Receiving and source inspection
• Dimensional and visual verification
• Quarantine, preservation, and shelf-life control
• Accurate inspection-release documentation

Key Performance Measures

• Materials accepted without later traceability gaps
• Receiving inspections completed within target time
• Non-conforming material contained before issue or installation
• Preservation and shelf-life compliance
• Complete MTC and release records available for handover

Reporting and Interfaces

Internal interfaces: Procurement, warehouse, engineering, construction, QA/QC, logistics, preservation, and document control teams.

External interfaces: Vendors, freight/logistics providers, third-party inspectors, testing laboratories, and client materials representatives.