Certified Weld Inspector (4 x 10-hour workdays per week)

This position is located in our brand-new Portland, CT facility

Join the Birdon team and help ensure USCG boats are safe and reliable!

The Certified Welding Inspector ensures that the work produced by welders meets specifications for quality and safety. They perform tests on welds to determine whether weld joints can handle stress and ensures that welds are safe for public use. Some of your daily functions will include:

• Codes, standards, and specifications: Interpretation of the intent and ensuring the requirements of codes, standards and specifications are met.
• Welding procedures: Ensuring that a procedure is available, has been approved and is being employed in production.
• Witnessing of welder and procedure approval tests: Witnessing the preparation of test plates and destructive tests and verifying compliance with appropriate standards and specifications.
• Welder approvals: Verifying that adequate and valid welder approvals are available, and that only approved welders are used in production.
• Welding consumable’s identity: Verification of correctness of welding consumables (electrodes, filler wires, consumable in­serts, gases, fluxes etc.
• In process welding inspection and surveillance: Surveillance during welding to verify compliance with specified procedures including any pre­weld, dimensional, pre­heat, interpass temperature control and post heat requirements.
• Inspection and Test Plans: Assistance and agreement with the preparation of Inspection and Test Plans (ITP’s)

If you have at least 2 years' experience as a welder, possess an Associate's degree in welding technology or related equivalent experience and hold your CWI certification ACCP Level 2, we want to talk to you!

Birdon is committed to the HEALTH and SAFETY of our workforce and to the ENVIRONMENT we work in. We expect this same commitment from all employees.