QA Lead - Civil/Mechanical/Piping

Job Summary

The QA Lead – Civil/Mechanical/Piping will manage quality assurance activities across civil, mechanical, and piping scopes on a large greenfield chemical plant project, ensuring compliance with specifications, codes, and contract requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Create and implement the construction quality management plan and supporting procedures for civil, mechanical, and piping scopes; ensure alignment with project specifications, ITPs, and contractors’ QC programs.
• Oversee quality planning and inspection for site prep, earthworks, compaction, subgrade, and civil work.
• Lead QA oversight for piling, concrete forms, rebar, embeds, placement, finishing, curing, and testing.
• Ensure foundations and concrete structures meet dimensional, elevation, anchor bolt, embedment, and tolerancing requirements; manage hold points and quality milestones.
• Direct QA oversight of equipment receiving, preservation, storage, and installation readiness.
• Verify equipment installation quality, including setting, grouting, shimming, anchor bolts, and alignment.
• Ensure proper implementation of vendor instructions, special process controls, and inspection points for packaged equipment, skids, and modules.
• Manage material control & traceability, welding program (WPS/PQR/WPQ compliance), and NDE coordination & acceptance (e.g., RT, UT, MT, PT, VT as specified).
• Conduct pressure testing at module yard, vendor shop, or on site; manage flushing, blowing, cleaning, and final acceptance.
• Ensure complete, accurate, and auditable quality records: ITPs, inspection reports, test results, weld/NDE dossiers, equipment install checklists, included in turnover packages by discipline.

Key Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or construction management preferred (Industrial, Civil, Mechanical) or equivalent combination of formal education and extensive field quality leadership experience.
• 15+ years of progressively responsible experience leading construction quality on large industrial projects (chemical, petrochemical, refinery, LNG, power, or similar).
• Welding/NDE credentials beneficial (AWS CWI, NDE Level II/III familiarity, or equivalent).
• Demonstrated success managing quality for concrete, foundations, piling, heavy civil works, and structural interfaces; equipment ITPs; piping construction (materials traceability, welding, NDE, PWHT/PMI, hydrotest/test packs, acceptance & turnover).
• Strong working knowledge of industrial codes/standards relevant to role (ACI, ASCE, ASTM, AISC, ASME B31.3, ASME IX, AWS); API certifications a plus: API 570, 510, 653.
• Deep experience and ability to read, understand & interpret engineering and construction drawings in civil, foundations, mechanical/equipment, and piping.
• Physical requirements: primarily field work under varied site conditions; willingness to support extended hours/weekends; onsite presence in St. Gabriel, LA; ability to spend substantial part of each day at the outdoor construction site, including walking on uneven ground, climbing stairs and ladders.

Benefits

• 401k with a 6% company match (additional matching of 3% of plan eligible pay).
• Multi-tier benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision; Employer-paid Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, and Life Insurance.
• Wellness Employee Assistance Program (EAP), paid parental leave, fitness & weight-loss reimbursement.
• Additional benefits: tuition reimbursement, eleven paid company holidays, paid vacation time, paid sick time, career development opportunities, and many other benefits in a collaborative culture focused on work-life balance, innovation, and teamwork. Benefits start on day one.

Location

St. Gabriel, LA

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