Turnaround QA Technician Job Listing at Kelly Services in Orange, TX (Job ID 9650149)

Description

KellyOCG is currently seeking an experienced Turnaround QA Tech to support several Turnarounds in the Orange, Texas area! The turnaround QA Tech will be the interface between contractor QC inspectors and QA Coordinators and other members of the turnaround team.  This role is primarily to monitor contractor performance in the field and help them deliver the quality work the client expects.

The QA Tech's responsibilities include:

• 80% of the workday spent in their assigned area to observe the contractors' activities, including:
  • Auditing contractor flange inspections to ensure they are performed by Qualified Flange Inspectors and are performed correctly.
  • Auditing contractor flange make-up to ensure they are following the Site Flange Makeup Procedure.
  • Audit other contractor work and activities to verify that Dow procedures, EMETL practices, and pipe specs are being followed
  • Spot checking materials to verify that the correct nuts, bolts, gaskets, piping, valves, etc are being installed and that larger pieced (pipe, valves, etc) are tagged with a green PMI tag.  Note:  Materials should have been PMI'ed before issue to the contractors.  If there's no indication that items were PMI'ed, they need to be re-verified or replaced.
  • Ensuring contractors' material handling practices address proper material issuing and storage as per G8S-6500-10, “Welding Material Control” and G8S-6500-11, “Materials Segregation” and the contractor's TA Specific Quality Plan.
  • Spot check leak detection tubing installations to ensure the tubing is being installed properly.
  • Verifying that touch up/repair painting is done.  Note:  Contractor QCs should be addressing and tracking paint repairs. 
  • Assisting inspector activities, i.e. pictures, documentation, etc., at hold points or witness points when requested
  • Verify that quality checklists and reports are completed and submitted as per the contractor's TA Specific Quality Plan
  • Reviewing documentation when contractors report that jobs are complete and organize field walks and signoffs as per the RTO process.  Work with the contractor QA reps to ensure punch lists are completed.

• Learn tubing fitting assembly procedures and check that anyone making up these fittings knows how to do it per the procedures
• Work with the QAQC Team, TACs to agree on Systems and/or Jobs to be RTO'd and organize a field walk for these systems logging all deficiencies found.
• Forward documents that are to be archived to the TA documenter.
• Generate non-conformance reports when deviations from Dow practices, specifications and procedures or the contractor's TA Quality Plan occur. Update the Quality Team shift activity log to provide accurate communications across shifts. Meet or exceed the EH&S LHC TA Safety Plan Requirements.

The QA Tech's primary qualifications are:

• Two to five years of chemical plant and skilled craft experience
• Basic computer skills - Outlook, Word, Excel, Internet Explorer, Access
• Ability to work in a team
• Communication skills: written, verbal, etc.
• Familiarity with Dow workstation tools such as SAP, CPPS, the Site equipment files and drawing files and with TA work processes and procedures may be helpful

Important information: This position is recruited by a remote Kelly office, not your local Kelly branch.  Applicants must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
 

As part of our promise to talent, Kelly supports those who work with us through a variety of benefits, perks, and work-related resources. Kelly offers eligible employees voluntary benefit plans including medical, dental, vision, telemedicine, term life, whole life, accident insurance, critical illness, a legal plan, and short-term disability. As a Kelly employee, you will have access to a retirement savings plan, service bonus and holiday pay plans (earn up to eight paid holidays per benefit year), and a transit spending account. In addition, employees are entitled to earn paid sick leave under the applicable state or local plan. Click here for more information on benefits and perks that may be available to you as a member of the Kelly Talent Community.

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