Quality Inspector
- Location:
-
Flintshire
- Sector:
- Oil & Gas
- Job Type:
- Contract
- Salary:
- Inside IR35 - PAYE
- Reference:
- SK/R/092798
Role
Ready to take ownership of quality from fabrication through to installation? Join a major industrial project and play a key role in ensuring the highest welding and fabrication standards are delivered.
Our Client has a requirement for a Fabrication & Welding Quality Inspector, who will be required to work on a contract basis in Padeswood.
Role Purpose
- Provide independent inspection and quality surveillance of fabrication and construction activities.
- Ensure compliance with approved procedures, specifications, codes, standards, and quality requirements.
- Support both workshop fabrication and site installation activities.
- Verify welding, NDT, material traceability, testing, and quality documentation.
Job Role Responsibilities
- Inspect fabrication and welding activities, ensuring compliance with WPS, WPQRs, and welder qualifications.
- Verify material certification, traceability, dimensional control, and fabrication quality records.
- Witness inspections, hold points, and NDT activities (RT, UT, MT, PT).
- Review weld maps, inspection reports, material certificates, and quality dossiers.
- Identify and manage non-conformances through NCR processes.
- Support installation, hook-up, tie-ins, field welding, and testing activities on site.
- Witness pressure testing and hydrotesting activities.
- Support mechanical completion, punch listing, walkdowns, and handover activities.
- Produce inspection reports and quality updates while liaising with project stakeholders.
Experience / Skills / Knowledge / Qualifications
Essential
- CSWIP 3.1 Welding Inspector (3.2 preferred).
- PCN Level 2 RT, UT, MT and PT certifications.
- Pressure testing competency.
- Valid CSCS card.
- Welding inspection experience within industrial, energy, power, petrochemical, oil & gas, or infrastructure projects.
- Experience of both fabrication-shop and site-based inspection activities.
- Strong knowledge of welding processes, NDT methods, fabrication records, and quality documentation.
Desirable
- NACE CIP Level 2 or ICorr Level 2 certification.
- Coating and insulation inspection experience.
- Experience using electronic quality management systems.
Benefits
- 12-month initial contract with extension potential.
- Opportunity to work across both fabrication and construction phases.
- Involvement in complex welding, NDT, testing, and commissioning activities.
- Collaborative, multidisciplinary project environment.
Company Information
At First Recruitment Group we understand just how important it is to secure the right people. That is why our Recruitment Consultants always take the time to understand requirements in detail and offer sound advice to both clients and candidates. We actively recruit at all levels and this is a superb opportunity for Fabrication & Welding Quality Inspectors looking for new employment.
As part of putting people first, we strive to be an equal opportunities employer and are always looking to increase the diversity of our workforce, working closely with our clients to ensure everyone is included.
