Inspector, Quality Assurance - QA​/QC, Quality Control - QC Analysts​/Managers

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Westlake makes chemical and plastic products, which in turn make life better for people every day. We are a quality manufacturer and dependable global supplier of petrochemicals, plastics and building products. Our mission is to serve our clients by enhancing daily life through the products and services we provide.

The API Inspector is the primary fixed-equipment Mechanical Integrity inspection representative for an assigned operating area. The role plans, performs, evaluates, and documents inspections in accordance with regulatory requirements, recognized and generally accepted good engineering practices, applicable API, ASME, NBIC, jurisdictional requirements, and company policies and procedures. The position evaluates equipment condition and credible damage mechanisms; maintains inspection plans and intervals;

coordinates qualified nondestructive examination resources; and provides technical recommendations for continued service, monitoring, repair, rerating, alteration, replacement, or removal from service. The inspector maintains accurate, timely, and auditable records and communicates equipment-integrity risk across Operations, Maintenance, Reliability, Engineering, Planning, and site leadership.

• Serve as the assigned-area inspection representative and maintain awareness of equipment condition, inspection status, due dates, recommendations, temporary repairs, and deferred activities.
• Develop and maintain inspection plans using equipment design, service conditions, history, credible damage mechanisms, remaining life, inspection effectiveness, and risk.
• Plan, perform, coordinate, witness, and evaluate external, internal, on-stream, and condition-monitoring inspections for fixed equipment and associated pressure-retaining systems.
• Identify damage mechanisms; select appropriate examination methods, locations, coverage, hold points, and acceptance criteria; and coordinate qualified NDE personnel.
• Perform or support corrosion-rate, remaining-life, minimum-thickness, similar-service, and other condition assessments within assigned authority.
• Evaluate results and determine whether conditions support continued service or require monitoring, engineering evaluation, fitness-for-service assessment, repair, alteration, rerating, replacement, or removal from service.
• Prepare clear, technically complete inspection reports that document scope, observed conditions, results, measurements, photographs, calculations, conclusions, and recommendations.
• Translate findings into complete SAP notifications, work orders, or approved corrective-action records with the technical basis, priority, required timing, and interim controls.
• Monitor findings from identification through evaluation, mitigation, planning, repair, post-repair inspection, documentation, and closure; elevate overdue or increasing-risk conditions.
• Review repair methods and applicable quality records; establish inspection hold or witness points; and perform or coordinate in-process and final inspections.
• Verify corrective actions address the original finding and that required examinations, tests, acceptance criteria, and closeout records are complete before recommending return to service or closure.
• Maintain accurate and auditable equipment histories, inspection plans, condition-monitoring data, intervals, reports, recommendations, and supporting records in SAP and the approved inspection data management system.
• Coordinate with Operations, Maintenance, Reliability, Engineering, Planning, Scheduling, Projects, contractors, and specialty resources while preserving independent technical judgment.
• Develop inspection scopes using equipment history, damage mechanisms, operating information, monitoring data, applicable requirements, and anticipated access opportunities.
• Identify required resources, specialized NDE, access and cleaning needs, inspection hold points, and repair contingencies; review contractor qualifications and procedures before quality-critical work begins.
• Coordinate field inspection and contracted NDE; evaluate discovered conditions; provide timely technical recommendations; and complete final reports, repair records, and system updates.
• Work extended hours or alternate schedules when required for turnarounds,…