Supplier Quality Representative (SQR) Central Texas Iron Works (ESS-434)

Job Description: Area: Greater Houston Area and willing to travel all of Texas and US as needed. Part-time Position possible full-time from 20-40 hours a week Timeline Needs: SQR to be available for weekday, weekend, and overnight work (with applicable notice). This will be to take over current BSQE resources for short notice work, and is not intended to be full-time but could turn into full time as desired. No hourly forecast currently exists. Coverage: Welding/Fabrication, Dimensional, run testing, balance testing, hydro testing, functional testing, shipping, release, and related manufacturing activities. Experience: Prefer candidates with at least 4–5 years of Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC), supplier quality, or shop-surveillance experience. Supply Chain - Company Supplier Quality and Expediting. Position Summary: This position entails visits to supplier and vendor shops to perform the activities defined by the quality surveillance assignment. The Supplier Quality Representative verifies, through monitoring, observation, document review, witnessing of examinations and tests, and selective hands-on inspection, that supplier-furnished material and equipment includes the defined attributes of recognized codes and standards and company procurement document requirements. Rejects material found nonconforming to procurement document requirements. Collaborates with the supplier and project supplier quality personnel to identify a course of action to achieve satisfactory disposition of disclosed nonconformances, releases conforming material for shipment, and reports surveillance results to company project personnel and the customer. Responsibilities: The Supplier Quality Representative represents the company as the supplier’s primary contact and performs quality surveillance activities defined by the assignment scope to verify that supplier-furnished material and equipment conforms to the technical and quality requirements of the procurement documents. Acting in this capacity, the Supplier Quality Representative performs the following: Requirements and Pre-Fabrication Readiness: Reviews the procurement document requirements with supplier representatives to ensure they are understood and implemented, including client-specific and code-driven requirements. Participates in kickoff and pre-fabrication meetings; confirms witness and hold points, inspection and test planning, documentation deliverables, and traceability expectations before production begins. Verifies that qualified procedures, qualified personnel, calibrated equipment, current approved drawings and revisions, and released material are in place prior to the start of work. Surveillance and Verification. Performs the surveillance activities defined by the assignment and the company's quality surveillance plan, which establishes what the company verifies and at what level; the supplier’s inspection and test plan governs the supplier’s own regime, and the two meet at witness and hold points. Monitors supplier personnel activities, including the witnessing of operations, inspections, examinations, or tests, to verify purchase order document requirements have been met - first operation and nondestructive examination, welding, fit-up and dimensional verification, blasting and coating, pressure and functional testing, final inspection, factory acceptance testing, and pre-shipment verification. Reviews supplier-generated quality verification documentation to verify conformance to procurement document requirements, including material test reports, traceability and heat records, nondestructive examination reports, personnel and procedure qualifications, calibration records, coating records, and data books. Verifies that sub-suppliers and subcontracted operations are disclosed, qualified, and controlled, and that sub-tier findings and records are included in supplier reporting. Reviews supplier documents submitted to the company with or without comme…

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