Contract: Welding Engineering / Calgary

The valued client, a large Oil & Energy company are seeking an experienced Welding Engineering to join their team in Calgary, AB on a long-term contract basis.

 

About the role:

• Provide welding engineering support to a wide variety of new construction and maintenance projects

including pipelines, facilities and shop fabrications

• Develop welding procedure specifications (WPS) as required. Select welding procedure specifications for project use

• Support existing technical specifications related to welding

• Support qualification and auditing of new and existing welding contractors and suppliers

• Review and approve third-party welding procedure specifications and welding-related technical specifications to ensure that supplementary requirements are applied

• Provide upfront welding engineering support to projects through document reviews and pre-production meetings

• Issue welding-related technical documentation and memos to projects as required

• Support RFI and NCR processes to ensure contractor, supplier and manufacturers compliance with  requirements

• Provide troubleshooting support during execution of new construction and maintenance projects

• Collaborate with internal team members, welding contractors and suppliers to find practical

solutions to technical challenges and to identify opportunities to improve technical requirements and processes

• Conduct and support welding-related engineering assessments and engineering critical assessments

• Support the documentation and consistent application of requirements

• Support failure analysis, issue investigations and root cause analysis as required

• Experienced in the application of welding requirements according to CSA Z662 and ASME IX

• A strong background of materials properties, effects of fabrication methods on material properties,

fracture mechanics analysis on fracture initiation and propagation control

• Hands-on trouble shooting skills is an asset

• Experience with mechanized welding procedures for mainline welding and fabrication welding

• Experience with other design and welding standards (e.g. ASME B31.3, ASME VIII, CSA B51, CSA W59, CSA Z662)

• Field experience with construction practices to prevent problems such as hydrogen-induced cracking

 

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Welding Engineering, Metallurgical/Materials or Mechanical Engineering, preferably an AWS, IWE or CWB certified welding engineer

• Registered Professional Engineer (P. Eng) with the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA) is required

• Minimum of 10 – 15 years of progressive experience in a welding engineering role, preferably related to gas pipeline/facility construction and design