Supplier Quality Engineer-Welding

Supplier Quality/Welding Engineer – India

BUSINESS: Critical Flow Solutions (CFS), DeltaValve and TapcoEnpro

LOCATION: Coimbatore, India

REPORTS TO: CFS India Supervisor, Quality

FUNCTIONAL REPORTING: NA

About Critical Flow Solutions

Critical Flow Solutions consists of two product brands, DeltaValve LLC and TapcoEnpro LLC, offering a diverse range of products and services, mainly for the oil and gas and petrochemical industries.

TapcoEnpro: For nearly seven decades, TapcoEnpro has been the leader in providing severe service, critical flow, high temperature control valves, electrohydraulic actuators and other essential products and services to the global refining and petrochemical industry. Our multi-step process includes research, conceptualization, feasibility assessment, establishing design requirements, preliminary design, detailed design, production planning, and finally production. TapcoEnpro valve and actuator service handles the needs of customers throughout the world with the capability to perform complete valve overhauls in the field with an emphasis on safety, quality, and on time completion.

DeltaValve: DeltaValve is a world leader in the design, engineering, and manufacturing of critical service equipment for delayed coking. Our renowned fully automated coke drum unheading devices (valves) have become a global standard for safe, reliable, and easy-to-operate coke drum unheading. This revolutionary technology was the foundation for many other innovations, including the Top Unheading Device, Retractable Center Feed Device, Smart Electric Actuator, Isolation Valves, Auto-Switch Coke Boring/Cutting Tools, and other related equipment.

POSITION DETAILS

Position Summary

As the Supplier Quality/Welding Engineer, your primary responsibility will be to assist the Quality Manager in performing supplier evaluations, audits, inspections, and document review to ensure compliance to all purchase order, statutory and CFS requirements. Frequent travel to meet with suppliers and accompany customer representatives will be required. This position will be responsible for building long-term quality and process integrity with CFS suppliers and customer inspection base.

Principal Activities

You Will:

• Provide direct oversite of assigned suppliers located in India, holding them accountable to meet all purchasing, quality, engineering and statutory requirements.
• Oversee and assist with development of supplier fabrication processes as well as support the local CFS welding program to ensure compliance with ASME and company specifications.
• Ensure that quality control inspection and reporting activities are conducted at suppliers as outlined in Inspection & Test Plans (ITP).
• Perform in-process inspections and validation of material, welding, heat treatment, NDE, hydrostatic shell testing, and dimensions.
• Witness inspection activities as outlined in project ITPs and Purchase Orders (POs).
• Accompany customer inspectors or third parties to inspection activities as outlined in project ITP’s.
• Review and approve supplier data packages to ensure compliance to PO, ITP, quality, engineering and statutory requirements and provide an approval signoff for shipment.
• Interface with suppliers and various company departments to develop strategies and quality plans and provide details related to project manufacturing and quality processes and expectations to meet company and project requirements, and assist with developing supplier procedures.
• Review and evaluate complex non-conformances, candidly and openly discuss findings, and implement resolutions with the suppliers.
• Collaborate with Company Engineering and Quality subject matter experts (SMEs) to obtain disposition and implement corrective actions related to non-conformances.
• Promote, drive, and facilitate Root Cause Analysis and Problem-Solving processes and action related resolutions.
• Assist with defining and developing selection criteria for supplier qualification, certification, evaluation ratings, and performance improvement.