Quality Piping Lead

Blackfield Associates are currently partnered with a global pharmaceutical manufacturer to support their search for a Piping Quality Lead to join their project based in Indiana on an initial 12-month contract.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead all piping quality activities throughout fabrication, installation, testing, commissioning, and turnover phases of the project.
• Provide field-based oversight of piping fabrication, welding, and installation activities to ensure compliance with project specifications, approved drawings, owner requirements, and applicable piping codes and standards.
• Perform and oversee weld quality inspections, reviewing welding procedures, welder qualifications, and non-destructive testing results to ensure compliance with quality requirements.
• Conduct routine inspections, audits, and field walkdowns to verify workmanship, material compliance, and installation quality.
• Oversee flushing, passivation, pressure testing, hydrotesting, and mechanical integrity verification activities for process and utility piping systems.
• Ensure proper installation and integration of process, utility, hygienic, and high-purity piping systems throughout the facility.
• Review and implement project quality plans, Inspection and Test Plans (ITPs), quality procedures, and turnover requirements.
• Manage quality issues from identification through closure, including non-conformance reports (NCRs), corrective actions, root cause investigations, and verification of corrective measures.
• Maintain accurate quality documentation, including inspection reports, testing records, turnover packages, quality metrics, and deficiency logs.
• Coordinate closely with construction, engineering, commissioning, CQV, and contractor teams to drive quality performance and timely issue resolution.
• Support system turnover and handover activities by ensuring piping systems meet quality, documentation, and regulatory requirements.
• Promote a culture of quality, accountability, continuous improvement, and safe execution across all project stakeholders.

Experience Required

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical discipline preferred; equivalent industry experience considered.
• Certified Welding Inspector (CWI) certification required.
• NDT certification and strong experience reviewing radiographic, ultrasonic, magnetic particle, and dye penetrant inspection results.
• Sufficient experience supporting piping, mechanical, and utility installations on large capital projects.
• Proven experience within pharmaceutical, biotechnology, semiconductor, or other GMP-regulated manufacturing environments.
• Strong knowledge of ASME B31.3, ASME welding standards, ANSI codes, and associated mechanical and piping regulations.
• Experience supporting hygienic, high-purity, utility, and process piping systems in regulated facilities.
• Demonstrated experience managing quality management systems, NCRs, corrective actions, turnover documentation, and inspection programs.
• Familiarity with commissioning, qualification, and turnover requirements for critical process and utility systems.
• Experience reviewing engineering drawings, specifications, RFIs, submittals, commissioning documentation, and turnover records.
• Strong communication, leadership, organizational, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to drive quality performance in a fast-paced construction environment.