Job Title: ǪC Engineer
Product:steel sheet piles, beam profiles, and (spiral-welded and longitudinally welded) pipe profiles
Job Location:Lagos
Objective
The ǪC Engineer is jointly responsible for safeguarding the quality of the process and the products to be delivered by company
Areas of Responsibility Inspection/Supervision
- Help ensure that during the production process and upon delivery, the products comply with the agreed quality requirements (ITP).
- Ensure that, where necessary, WPSs are prepared in a timely manner for each project based on WǪRs/WPǪs.
- Instruct the Production Manager and Supervisors, and if necessary the workshop employees, regarding the quality requirements of the relevant product (project).
- Ensure the timely written assignment or execution of Non-Destructive and Destructive Testing (NDT and DT) in accordance with project or internal requirements (ITP), in consultation with the relevant Project Manager or the ǪC Manager.
- Ensure timely logistical preparation for DT and NDT inspections.
- Provide feedback on NDT and DT test results to the Project Manager and ǪC Manager.
- Perform (digitally) documented random sample inspections (cross-checks) on products and processes.
- Supervise any non-conformities requiring repairs.
- On behalf of the ǪC, Project, or Sales Manager, visit customers and subcontractors for complaint handling or general quality inspections. These visits are digitally documented.
- Help ensure the traceability (Release Note) of assembled products through a prepared Pile Make-Up.
- Monitor the timely calibration of measuring and testing equipment used at the sites by the Technical Department to determine the quality of the final product, while maintaining a clear (digital) administration of these activities.
- When deviations are identified or reported, ensure they are registered by production through an NCR (Non-Conformity Report) and, where permitted, propose corrective actions and have them implemented.
- Compile and provide the agreed (digital) project documentation to the relevant Project Manager.
- Ensure the timely and well-substantiated renewal of welder certificates based on relevant standards.
- Maintain an up-to-date welder overview list and distribute it to Production.
- Maintain accurate and transparent general ǪC and project administration.
- Check welding parameters during production and report them digitally.
Requirements:
Knowledge of:
- Processing and manufacturing techniques for steel sheet piles, beam profiles, and (spiral-welded and longitudinally welded) pipe profiles.
- Sufficient commercial insight and strong interpersonal skills.
- English, both spoken and written.
Education:
- BSC/HND Mechanical Engineer
- Working and thinking level in metalworking, supplemented by extensive relevant practical experience.
- Completed IWS or IWT (International Welding Technologist) qualification.
- VTW 2 or equivalent qualification.( Visual inspection Level 2)
- VCA.
- Relevant procedures from the quality manual.
Manual Skills
- Required for:
- Performing dimensional inspections on semi-finished or finished products.
Responsibility
- Responsible for:
- Monitoring the implementation of WPSs per project at the production sites.
- Preparing (based on project requirements) and renewing welder certificates (every six months by the ǪC Engineer and annually by a third party).
Communication with
- Various colleagues regarding quality and welding-related technical advice.
- NDT and DT subcontractors regarding planning and definition of activities.
- Production Manager and ǪC Manager to provide advice on quality-related matters.