About Austin Industrial

Austin Industrial delivers premier maintenance, construction, and soft craft services to leading industrial companies across the U.S. An industry leader for more than 60 years, we offer single-source solutions to our customers in the oil, gas, chemical, food, agriculture, power, and manufacturing industries. Our team of 4,000 employee-owners, equipped with innovative technology and optimized procedures, helps owners optimize safety, productivity, profit margins, and cost-efficiency.

QA/QC Piping Inspector 

We are currently seeking an experienced QA/QC Piping Inspector to be based in La Porte, Texas
This position requires API-570/Valid Driver’s License/Valid TWIC
Maintenance position working 4x10's plus occasional OT - NO Per Diem

QA/QC Piping Inspector that can do UTT thickness readings, PTs, and may require an API-570 for piping inspection, will inspect, test, and sample products, materials, or parts, for deviations and defects from specifications. The inspector will reject anything that does not meet with company standards. A QA or QC inspector will observe production operations and equipment to ensure that specifications are being met and to make or order necessary adjustments to processes or assemblies. Attention to detail is essential to the job of detecting defects that could be easily missed by the customer but still present a safety risk, and the ability to communicate clearly and effectively when reporting issues and defects is necessary. An inspector should be able to interpret blueprints and other drawings that detail product specifications. Experience with measuring tools is required as well. 

Responsibilities:  

Performs daily construction surveillance at project site, including welding, structural and civil inspections. Inspect, test, and sample materials or assembled parts or products for defects and deviations from specifications. Reject products, materials, and equipment not meeting specifications. Observe and report construction progress. Drafts daily reports based on observations made. Reports discrepancies to QA/QC Manager and Project Manager. Coordinates code compliance inspections per client specifications and State laws. Maps welds to be performed. Effective interfaces with client QA personnel.

Physical Demands - The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk or hear and taste or smell. The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to twenty-five pounds and may frequently lift and/or move up to fifty pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Qualifications:

API – 570 Piping Inspections, PT – Dye Penetrant Testing and UT – Ultrasonic Thickness Readings. Piping and static equipment inspector to include UT and at least a couple of years’ experience in plant inspection.

Austin Industrial is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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No Third-Party Inquiries Please

This Company does not accept and will not consider unsolicited resumes, or any other unsolicited candidate information submitted to the Company or any of its employee-owners by staffing agencies, search firms, or third-party recruiters in response to a posted vacancy. The Company will not pay any placement fee(s) without a written agreement to do so (e.g., payment must be required pursuant to the terms of a written agreement). 

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