API Inspector Austin Industrial (Plaquemine, LA)

Austin Industrial provides premier self-perform maintenance construction and soft craft service to leading industrial companies across the U.S. An industry leader for more than 60 years we offer single-source solutions to our customers in the oil gas chemical food agriculture power and manufacturing industries.

To learn more about us visit Inspector

This person must be able to support our facilitys mechanical integrity and reliability programs. This position plays a key role in ensuring the safe compliant and efficient operation of pressure vessels piping systems and aboveground storage tanks within an industrial environment. Other duties may be assigned.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

Inspection & Integrity Assessments

- Conduct inspections of pressure vessels (API 510) piping systems (API 570).

- Perform internal external and on-stream evaluations of all fixed equipment.

- Assess equipment condition corrosion mechanisms deterioration and structural integrity.

- Perform thickness studies calculate remaining life and establish inspection intervals.

- Other duties as assigned.

- Applicants must be legally authorized to work for ANY employer in the United State. Austin Industrial is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position.

Oversight & Compliance

- Review and approve repair plans welding procedures and alteration scopes.

- Oversee mechanical repairs and verify compliance with API codes and jurisdictional requirements.

- Interpret NDE results (UT MT PT RT vacuum box testing settlement surveys etc.).

- Support compliance with OSHA PSM MI requirements and company policies.

Documentation & Data Management

- Create detailed inspection reports repair recommendations and regulatory documentation.

- Maintain accurate equipment files corrosion data and inspection histories.

- Provide input and updates for risk-based inspection (RBI) programs.

- Assist with turnaround planning and mechanical integrity scope development.

Technical Support

- Collaborate with engineering maintenance and operations teams.

- Provide technical insight regarding damage mechanisms metallurgy and equipment design.

- Participate in failure investigations and root cause analyses.

- Support continuous improvement of the facilitys mechanical integrity program.

QUALIFICATIONS

- API 510 Pressure Vessel Inspector

- API 570 Piping Inspector

- Strong understanding of fixed equipment design fabrication corrosion and NDE.

Preferred

- AWS CWI

- NACE/AMPP certification

- STI SP001

- Experience with RBI software or inspection data systems

- Working knowledge of API 579 Fitness for Service

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this Job the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger handle or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; climb or balance; stoop kneel crouch or crawl; talk or hear and taste or smell. The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 25 pounds and may frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision distance vision peripheral vision depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Qualifications Required for this Position:

Education: no minimum education requirements.

Experience: 5 years of Journeyman-level experience.

Certifications/ Licenses:API 510 & 570 a Valid Drivers License and a TWIC Card.

Austin Industrial is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Seethe Know Your Rights poster available inEnglishandSpanish.

No Third-Party Inquiries Please

This Company does not accept and will not consider unsolicited resumes or any other unsolicited candidate information submitted to the Company or any of its employee-owners by staffing agencies search firms or third-party recruiters in response to a posted Company will not pay any placement fee(s) without a written agreement to do so (i.e. payment must be required pursuant to the terms of a written agreement).

Any unsolicited resumes or candidate information submitted to this Company or any of its employee-owners becomes the property of the Company.

Accessibility Note

If you are a job seeker with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to apply for one of our jobs or have accessibility concerns please contact thePeople Services Teamat.

Required Experience:

IC