Weld Engineer

SUMMARY A welding engineer combines practical welding work with higher-level administrative and technical duties. Welding engineers develop weld procedure specifications, manage welding projects, supervise welding teams, and are involved with planning and preparation.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Create, submit, and manage WPS(s).
• Assign approved WPS(s) to new jobs.
• Leading welding projects.
• Analyzing engineering designs for welding requirements.
• Reviewing welding procedures, processes, and documentation.
• Assist in managing welding procedure qualifications and generating welding procedures to help the manufacturing and welding teams.
• Conducting failure analyses and cause analyses on welding issues.
• Other duties as assigned.

• In leu of a Bachelor’s degree in engineering, at least 5 years of work experience in Quality Assurance, fabrication, or non-destructive testing field should be combined with a demonstrated track-record of accomplishments as a Weld Engineer, and with satisfying customers in technology-driven, supporting quality departments.
• Experience with ISO9001 Quality System rules, regulations, including planning and implementation. Also, NAVSEA and ASME experience preferred.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, strong interpersonal skills, and superior organizational abilities.
• Ability to take initiative, to maintain confidentiality, to meet deadlines, and to work in a team environment essential.
• PC-based computing experience (word processing-Word, spreadsheet-Excel, presentation- PowerPoint, documentation s/w, statistical software) essential.
• Experience with performing Internal Audits and Document Control.
• General knowledge of associated machinery and processing preferred.
• Broad knowledge of theory and principles of statistics and statistical process control.
• Diverse knowledge of inspection and control methods, techniques and documentation.