Chief Inspector
Listed on 2026-07-23
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Engineering
Quality Engineering -
Quality Assurance - QA/QC
Quality Control - QC Analysts/Managers, Quality Engineering
Company:
INEOS Olefins & Polymers USA
Interested in joining a winning team? A team whose employees are empowered to make a difference?
Interested in joining a winning Team? A team whose employees are empowered to make a difference?
Company:
Olefins and Polymers USA LLC
Job Title
Chief Inspector
Grade
37
Offer Range
$161, (commensurate with experience)
Location
TBD - (Hybrid)
How the job fits in:
The Chief Inspector is the most senior functional leader for fixed equipment inspection across INEOS O&P USA. Reporting to the Equipment Integrity Manager & Technical Authority, this role designs, implements, and assures the inspection programs that protect the mechanical integrity of piping, pressure vessels, and storage tanks across $15B+ in enterprise replacement value assets. Inspection programs stewarded by this role directly support the company’s license to operate.
Within the discipline of fixed equipment inspection, the Chief Inspector defines enterprise expectations for inspection planning, RBI methodology application, field execution quality, and inspection data management. Site inspection leads operate within the inspection program framework, methodologies, and standards established by this role and rely on it for technical leadership, calibration, and assurance. While the position has no direct line authority over site inspection personnel, its functional leadership and structured assurance activities establish how inspection programs are executed across all O&P USA sites.
The role spans three major manufacturing sites and the O&P USA pipeline business, providing functional leadership across all site-based inspectors and RBI analysts and shaping the inspection portion of $175MM+ in annual maintenance and inspection spend. Through inspection program optimization, focusing inspection resources on the highest-risk equipment and reducing low-value activity, the role drives both reliability outcomes and cost efficiency across the enterprise.
The Chief Inspector is also the role group leader for inspectors across O&P USA, defining inspector competency expectations, development pathways, and what good looks like for the inspector role at every level. The role is recognized as a technical authority on inspection within INEOS and is expected to actively participate in relevant industry forums and committees, including API and AFPM Mechanical Integrity Subgroup activities, ensuring that O&P remains aligned with emerging standards, NDE technologies, and best practices in inspection program management.
A significant intervention to address this structural threat to the Business has been defined and actioned by the O&P USA Board and endorsed by INEOS Capital. Central to this intervention is creation and implementation of a corporate Operations Management System (OMS) that will define, at a corporate level, how all elements of engineering, operations and technology will be defined, structured, standardised and managed going forward.
Critical to the successful delivery of the OMS is creation of a Corporate Engineering & Technology Organization, and population of that organization with senior, competent and experienced discipline leaders, with the technical capability and gravitas to design, communicate and manage their engineering / operational discipline to significantly improved and consistent standards across the entire O&P USA Business.
The E&T organization will hold all discipline engineering Technical Authorities in the Business, who will set corporate standards, practices, procedures and competency requirements across all operating locations. This is a purposeful and complete reversal in structure to previous / current where personnel at the operating Sites had an assumed authority for all technical discipline policies, practices, structures and standards at their individual location;
an approach that has not worked and is the root cause of the many performance issues encountered today.
The post holder must have deep understanding of their engineering discipline and have successful experience of setting policy and driving compliance to required standards across a large and diverse manufacturing organization. The…
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