Lead Quality Control Inspector – Burnaby, BC
Join CIMS Limited Partnership as a Lead Quality Control Inspector, where you'll drive excellence and ensure the highest standards of quality across multiple disciplines, including welding, mechanical, electrical, and instrumentation. In this leadership role, you will manage a team of inspectors, assigning tasks, defining expectations, deliverables, and timelines to ensure seamless project execution.
You will be accountable for:
- Ensure that all incoming and outgoing raw and fabricated materials meet quality standards, with appropriate identification and job numbers transferred to individual materials before cutting.
- Perform receiving inspections and review material test reports (MTRs) for each job, assigning steel ID numbers and maintaining a material receiving log.
- Conduct welding and dimensional inspections, monitor NDE activities in compliance with specifications, and arrange for NDE of completed welds as per the Inspection and Test Plan (ITP).
- Track welding NDE percentages, welder rejection rates, and non-conformance issues, recommending corrective actions as necessary.
- Prepare and circulate Non-Conformance Reports (NCRs) detailing issues and providing recommendations to prevent recurrence.
- Maintain a log of Non-Conformances, ensuring proper disposition and acceptance.
- Ensure that all Quality Control/Quality Assurance (QC/QA) documentation is complete and accurate.
- Support internal and external customer needs by reviewing scopes of work, engineering drawings, and project specifications and ensuring personnel are working with the latest approved revisions.
- Compile and submit QA/QC turnover packages to client inspectors, scanning final versions to the server.
- Ensure tracking and reporting KPIs, ensuring that quality benchmarks are met consistently
- For new welders, verify qualifications, assign welder IDs, and update the welder qualification log, maintaining a copy of certifications on file.
- Prepare Inspection and Test Plans (ITPs), review Welding Procedure Specifications (WPS), and submit to client QA for review and approval.
- Conduct surveillance on welders' performance, ensuring compliance with the client quality program and WPS parameters such as preheat and filler metals.
- Perform additional duties as required.
Qualifications:
- CWB Level II or equivalent (API) certification with piping and/or equipment experience (tanks, boilers, exchangers, etc.).
- Strong attention to detail and accuracy with excellent problem-solving skills.
- Proficient verbal and written communication, along with strong planning, organization, conflict resolution, and training abilities.
- Ability to multi-task and manage conflicting priorities effectively across all levels of the organization and with clients.
- Proficiency in MS Office and other relevant software for monitoring quality standards.
Working conditions:
- Work may be performed in both office environments and customer sites, supplier premises, or fabrication shops.
- Use of standard fabrication shop equipment such as welders, power tools, and hand tools.
- May involve outdoor work in various weather conditions (heat, cold, wet, humid, or dry).
- May require occasional work outside regular hours to meet deadlines.
- Frequent standing, walking, repetitive movement, and lifting required.
- Use of personal protective equipment to prevent exposure to hazardous materials.
About CIMS LP:
CIMS LP is a 100% Canadian-owned and operated mechanical contractor serving locations across Canada. We provide services in the heavy industrial sector, including the largest plant shutdowns and complex industrial projects in the Oil & Gas, Mining & Industrial, Pulp & Paper, and Power Generation industries. We have a strong reputation for executing projects on or ahead of schedule and providing critical 24-hour emergency response services. Our labour affiliations allow us to quickly mobilize highly skilled trades for emergency work, complex major capital or maintenance projects. We work closely with our project stakeholder throughout the project lifecycle to identify, implement, and enforce all aspects of work that impacts productivity which is critical to our customer’s success.
What differentiates CIMS is Our People. Our reputation for the past 30+ years in the business have given us the ability to attract and retain high performing staff and field supervision who are committed to our CIMS Core Values and making positive impact every day. Our Promise is that every employee goes home injury free and that the job is done right the first time. Our Passion is providing our customers with peace of mind with our team’s knowledge, experience, innovated thinking and integrity.
To those who are interested in applying:
CIMS is an inclusive employer committed to a workplace that reflects the diversity of the communities we live and work in. Every day we work towards empowering and advocating for our employees by welcoming, respecting and valuing people for who they are as individuals. We welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQIA2+ community, mature workers, people with disabilities, and people from different colour /cultural backgrounds.
CIMS LP is committed to ensuring that reasonable accommodation is made available to people with disabilities during the recruitment, assessment and selection processes. If there's something we can do to help make the recruitment process more accessible-friendly, let us know and we will do our best to accommodate.
Only candidates who are most qualified for the position will be contacted.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $70.00-$85.00 per hour
Expected hours: No less than 40 per week
Additional pay:
Schedule:
- 10 hour shift
- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
- Weekends as needed
Application question(s):
- How many years of Refinery Experience
Experience:
- Quality Control: 4 years (required)
- Quality assurance: 4 years (required)
Location:
Work Location: In person
