Api Inspector 510/570

Description:
**Summary**

Conduct Mechanical Integrity inspections including dead legs, visual inspection, isometric sketches and piping inspection. Located in La Porte, Tx for one-year project.

**Essential Functions**
- Conduct non-destructive (NDT) testing of components and materials in accordance with applicable codes, standards, equipment utilization, specifications, and procedures.
- Utilize appropriate NDT method to perform NDT inspections, including API 510/570, magnetic particle, liquid penetrant, ultrasonic, leak testing and visual inspections.
- Select, prepare, load, calibrate, or operate equipment used in the non-destructive testing of products or materials.
- Identify defects in materials using appropriate testing technique.
- Complete documentation, work orders, and reporting thoroughly following established protocols and meeting required timeframes.
- Drive Company vehicles and maintain safe driving record.
- Interact professionally with customers and co-workers.

**Other Functions**
- Perform general cleaning and minor maintenance duties to maintain company vehicles, routinely inspect equipment and maintain shop areas in a clean, orderly and functional condition.
- Perform duties as assigned.

**Requirements**:
**Knowledge, Skills, Abilities**
- Mechanical - Intermediate mechanical knowledge and aptitude.
- Communication and Active Listening - Strong verbal and written communication skills. Able to speak and write clearly. Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, and asking appropriate questions.
- Able to Work a Demanding and Flexible Schedule - Strong work ethic required. Able to work long periods of time, up to 16-hour days. Able to respond to call-outs on short notice and to stay on site, including long distance travel for extended periods of time.
- Physical Demands - Able to frequently lift and carry objects up to 75 pounds on loose, rough or uneven terrain. Able to occasionally exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects up to 150 pounds with assistance. Climbing and working at heights, balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching, handling, standing for long periods, walking, pushing, pulling, repetitive motion, working in confined spaces, working in extreme cold and heat, visual acuity, working near hazards including moving mechanical parts, working near electrical components and exposures to chemicals. Able to adapt to frequent, often daily, changes in the work environment. Applicants must meet weight restrictions to ensure their safety when utilizing safety harnesses.
- Professional Appearance and Conduct - Dress appropriately for the assignment and maintain good hygiene.
- Customer Service - Interact professionally with customers. Punctual arrival to assignments.
- Coordination - Adjusting actions in relation to others’ actions.
- Operation Monitoring - Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine or process is working properly.
- Active Learning - Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
- Equipment Selection - Determining the kind of tools and equipment needed to do a job.
- Critical Thinking - Use logic and reason to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems. Good decision maker and detail oriented.
- Multi-Tasking - Ability to perform, monitor, or go back and forth between multiple tasks effectively.
- Vision - The ability to see details at close range (within 20 inches). Clarity of vision at 20 feet or more. Ability to observe an area that can be seen up and down or to right or to left while eyes are fixed on a given point.
- Team Work - able to work effectively as part of a team and to provide instruction to others effectively and professionally.
- Quality and Process Improvement - Thorough and continually looks for ways to improve processes.

**Education**

High School Diploma or GED.

**Certification and Licensure**

Valid driver’s license. Insurability through PROtect, LLC insurance carrier. Certification in API 510/570.

**Work Experience**

Demonstrated NDT skill, knowledge or experience.