Welding Inspector

3 days ago

Perth, Western Australia Fortescue Full time $120,000 - $180,000 per year

Our Opportunity

Location: Chichester Hub (Christmas Creek and Cloudbreak) - Fortescue's Chichester Hub is located on the traditional lands of the Palyku and Nyiyaparli peoples.

Roster: 8D6R FIFO ex Perth

Reporting to the Welding Coordinator, the Welding Inspector will be responsible for ensuring compliance with welding standards, maintaining quality control, and supporting continuous improvement efforts across Fortescue's operational sites. The role requires technical expertise in welding processes, documentation review, and inspection activities.

Key Responsibilities

  • Align with Fortescue values and safety culture, promoting safe work practices through field interactions with workgroups
  • Audit the welding quality management system in accordance with AS/NZS ISO 3834, ensuring compliance with specifications, codes and standards
  • Create, review and approve welding-related documentation, including ITPs, WPS, welder qualifications, weld maps, drawings, and MDRs, while ensuring adherence to relevant specifications
  • Conduct site visits, inspections of welded joints (fit-up, during, and post-welding), and supervise welding operations as needed to ensure compliance with specifications and industry best practices
  • Manage technical queries with stakeholders, coordinate welder qualification activities, oversee NDT operations, and generate NDT requests
  • Troubleshoot welding issues, provide practical solutions, and stay updated on industry trends, codes, and regulations to ensure engineering excellence and quality improvements

Qualifications and Experience

  • Hold one or more current welding certifications (CSWIP 3.1 or 3.2, IWI-S, AS 2214 or AS 1796 Certificate 11 or 10 Welding Supervision).
  • Extensive practical experience in welding inspections and experience within an ISO 3834 accredited quality system.
  • Knowledge of Australian and International structural and pressure vessel welding codes, WHS act 2020 and regulations 2022.
  • Highly developed understanding of non-destructive testing processes and techniques.
  • Current WA Driver's Licence and ability to work in remote site locations.

About Us

Be part of something big. Fortescue is leading the world with our plan to decarbonise our iron ore operations, projects that harness renewable energy and the development of technology that will change our planet forever.

Our Commitment

Fortescue celebrates individual strengths and team members are encouraged to bring their whole selves to work. Our global workforce drives and promotes an inclusive culture, both within our organisation and throughout the communities we interact with. Diverse backgrounds include First Nations Peoples, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+ community, gender, neurodiverse, cultural diversity, all age groups, and those with an intersectional or multiple diverse characteristics. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

Internal Candidates / Current Contractors please apply via Success Factors Careers Portal. For further information on how to apply please visit the Fortescue Hub.

Fortescue reserves the right to close applications early should a suitable pool of candidates be identified. Fortescue will never contact you to ask for payment of any kind, whether directly or through a third party.

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