Welding Superintendent

About the role

Requirements

• Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC)
• Experience: 10-30 years

Responsibilities

• Welding Execution & Supervision: Oversee all welding activities including structural welding (jackets, topsides, decks) and piping/equipment welding; ensure welding is performed per approved WPS and PQR; monitor fit-up, welding, and joint completion.
• Planning & Coordination: Coordinate with Planning team to align welding activities with project schedule; ensure readiness of drawings and revisions, welding consumables, qualified welders and equipment; plan daily and weekly welding activities.
• Welder Qualification & Control: Ensure all welders are qualified and certified per project requirements; assign based on welding process and material; maintain welder qualification records; monitor welder performance and productivity.
• Welding Quality Assurance: Ensure compliance with project specifications and applicable codes (ASME, AWS, API, ISO); monitor weld quality and defect rates; coordinate with QA/QC for fit-up inspections, visual inspections, NDT (RT, UT, MPI, DPI).
• Consumables & Equipment Management: Ensure proper handling and storage of welding consumables (electrodes, flux, filler wires, gases); maintain electrode baking/holding ovens; ensure calibration and maintenance of welding machines.
• Productivity & Cost Control: Monitor welding productivity (inch-dia / tonnage metrics); control rejection rates and minimize rework; optimize usage of consumables and manpower.

Skills

• Welding supervision
• Welding Procedure Specification (WPS)
• Procedure Qualification Record (PQR)
• ASME
• AWS
• API
• ISO
• NDT methods (RT, UT, MPI, DPI)
• Fit-up inspection
• QA/QC coordination
• Piping and structural welding
• Welding consumables management
• Welder qualification management
• Calibration and maintenance of welding machines
• Planning and scheduling