Supplier Quality Representative; SQR; Structural Steel

Job Title: Supplier Quality Representative (SQR)- Structural Steel

Location: New England Region, USA

Type of Role: Contract

Position:
Will be required to travel.

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 include the defined attributes of recognized codes and standards and 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 project personnel and the customer.

• 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.
• Performs the surveillance activities defined by the assignment and company’s quality surveillance plan, which establishes what 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.
• Releases conforming material for shipment and notifies other functional organizations to assist in coordination of their activities.
• Reports the results of quality surveillance activities to provide project personnel and the customer with the status of surveillance activities, using timely and accurate surveillance reports as the auditable record of attendance, observations, and actions.
• Provides early notification of quality or fabrication progress risk to the Area Supervisor and project supplier quality personnel, and coordinates with area expediting personnel so quality and progress status are consistent.
• Supports remote and technology-enabled surveillance, including hands-free video collaboration, three-dimensional scanning, and model overlay tools that extend Engineering and project visibility into the shop; these tools supplement, and do not replace, in-shop presence and judgment.
• Maintains assignment, notice-of-inspection, finding, certification, and photographic records in the…