Mechanical / API Inspector - Contract

Company Description

We are SGS – the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company. We are recognized as the global benchmark for quality and integrity. Our 98,000 employees operate a network of 2,650 offices and laboratories, working together to enable a better, safer and more interconnected world.

Job Description

SGS is looking to hire Mechanical / API Inspectors as independent contractors for various contracts. It is not full time work and we contact you when we have a request for work.

• Rate: CAD $50–$55 per hour
• Agreement length: 2 years
• Schedule: Intermittent assignments—as and where required, depending on project needs. This is not a continuous full-time assignment.
• Required certifications: API 510, API 570 and API 653
• Experience: Minimum 7 years of API-related equipment inspection experience, including 3 years in quality assurance, vendor surveillance or shop inspections
• Openings: 2–3 inspectors at each location
• Start date: To be confirmed; no firm assignment schedule is currently available
• Travel expenses: Covered at cost when the inspection site is beyond a 200 km round trip from the inspector’s residence and an overnight hotel stay is required. Prior client approval is required.

Scope of work: 

• To perform Mechanical Integrity Inspections (API 510, API 570, API 653)
• To verify compliance with API 510, API 570, and API 653 codes, satisfying federal, provincial, or state regulatory mandates
• Auditing owner-user inspection management systems, corrosion monitoring programs, and Risk-Based Inspection (RBI) strategies
• Determine long-term and short-term corrosion rates, safe operating limits, and next inspection intervals.
• Witnessing weld repairs, reviewing traveler/weld map packages, and verifying post-weld heat treatment (PWHT) or pressure/vacuum testing
• Issuing traceable, code-compliant inspection reports for internal safety programs and provincial/state regulators
• Inspection of pressure vessels, heat exchanger shells and channels, air coolers, metallic piping systems, piping components, and pressure relief devices, welded steel atmospheric storage tanks
• Quality document reviews including WPS / PQR, assessment of quality, and issue reports or recommendations for corrective actions to ensure the safety and structural integrity of welded components
• Inspecting welds, reviewing welding procedures, and conducting visual and dimensional inspections
• Perform in-service inspections, turnaround inspections, and risk-based inspections (RBI).
• Conduct visual inspections of welded joints, checking dimensions, penetration, and bead formation.
• Witness non-destructive testing (NDT) and interpret / verify results.
• Visual inspection on the quality of welding and mechanical projects.
• Prepare detailed reports documenting inspection results, including any issues found.
• Recording inspection results and any non-conformities
• Investigating Non-Conformities i.e. identifying causes and assisting in corrective actions.
• Ability to communicate effectively with welders, engineers, and other personnel.

Qualifications

• API 510, API 570, API 653. All 3 preferred but API 510, 570 a must. 
• Minimum of seven (7) years API related equipment inspection experience. Three (3) of these years should be in Quality Assurance / vendor surveillance / shop inspections
• Industrial experience in Oil & gas / Power & Utility / Construction / Manufacturing, etc..
• Inspection experience of pressure vessels, heat exchanger shells and channels, air coolers, metallic piping systems, piping components, and pressure relief devices, welded steel atmospheric storage tanks.
• Experienced in witnessing NDE test (UT, PT, MT, RT, etc..) and verifying test reports.

Additional Information

SGS is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and as such we recruit, hire, train, and promote persons in all job classifications without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression and Indigenous status, or any other characteristics protected by law.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily with or without reasonable accommodations. The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required.

This job description should not be construed as an exhaustive statement of duties, responsibilities, or requirements, but a general description of the job. Nothing contained herein restricts the company's rights to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

Accommodations are available on request for qualified candidates during each stage of the recruitment process.

Please note that candidates applying for Canadian job openings should be authorized to work in Canada.