Our client is looking for a Quality Inspector and Expeditor to be responsible for ensuring equipment/plant is correctly manufactured, installed and commissioned in conjunction with the procedures of the companies QMS, to SABS and International standards. Position Details: Type: Permanent Reports to: Contracts Director Primary Purpose: Responsible for ensuring equipment/plant is correctly manufactured, installed and commissioned in conjunction with the procedures of the companies QMS, to SABS and International standards Job description / core competencies: - Ensure a good working relationship is maintained with our Chinese Partners and solve problems in relation to quality and expediting of manufacturing to grow mutual respect and improved relationships. - Attend and validate Supplier Quality Kick-Off meeting in accordance with the companies QMS. - Expedite The partners documentation and drawing requirements are approved and issued in accordance with the companies Purchase Order such as Manufacturing Schedule, WPSs, PQRs, WQTCs and NDE procedures. - Expedite and approve QCPs/ITPs for equipment components complete with the companies intervention points for issue to Contacts Engineer. - Monitor and verify manufacturing drawings issued to the respective manufacturing workshops by the partners are consistent with the latest approved drawings issued by the companies and verify latest revisions in circulation. - Expedite and verify that material and equipment has been ordered and delivered in accordance with the relevant specifications and standards by the partners including verification of certified material and material traceability throughout. - Inspect equipment/plant components in accordance with QCPs/ITPs and ensure compliance with the purchase order, approved drawings and relevant specifications and international standards. - Ensure that correct manufacturing processes are implemented and enforced by the partners workshops in accordance with the relevant specifications and standards. - Raise non-conformance reports with detailed description of the non-conformity to the partners for root cause analyses including the necessary corrective and preventative actions to be concluded by the partners. - Expedite delivery of components and equipment and ensure completion in accordance with the companies Purchase Order and the contract program issued by the contracts engineer. - Ensure trial assemblies, shop assemblies and factory acceptance tests (FATs) are complete by the partners workshops in accordance with the relevant specifications and international standards. - Arrange the testing/inspections with Customers in conjunction with contracts engineer and compile all necessary QMS documentation after acceptance by Customer. - Complete equipment pre-delivery checklists, inspection and release certificates and final release certificates. - Supervise packing, crating, and loading of equipment into containers or onto trucks. Ensure bills of material on assembly drawings are cross checked against packing lists to ensure all components and material are loaded complete with photographic verification of all components detailed on packing lists. - Recording, monitoring, and coordinating resolution of all non-conformances, concessions, and technical queries. - Ensure The partners data books are compiled and approved in accordance with customers requirements. - Conduct Supplier SHEQ assessments for new and existing Suppliers in accordance with The companies QMS. Location (city, province): Johannesburg, Gauteng Job Qualifications, Skills & Experience: - Welding inspector, level 1 or 2 - Paint Inspector (Qualification), level 1 or 2 - AWS CWI, certified welding inspector, cert no. XXX-XXXX - AWS SCWI, senior certified welding inspector, cert no. XXX-XXXX - CSWIP 3.1, Welding inspector, cert no. 542682 - NACE CIP level3, Senior coating inspector, cert no. 15379 - Liquid Penetrant Testing Level 2 Certificate numbers 23/0675/2 & 23/0682/1/PED (EN ISO 9712). - Ultrasonic Testing Level 2 Certificate numbers 23/0676/2 & 23/0705/1/PED (EN ISO 9712). - American Society for Nondestructive Testing, ASNT Level 2 (UT, PT, MT, RT) , cert no. XXX-XXXX7 - PMP, PMI, cert no. 2590634 - Senior constructor for electromechanical engineering, cert no, XXX-XXXXXXX-XXXX - QMS ISO9001 auditor, cert no 2022-NXXX-XXXX0