Quality Control Engineer

Pinnacle Partners is hiring for a QC Engineer for a fulltime direct hire role with our esteemed client in Indianapolis, IN. This is an onsite role and non locals will need to relocate to the Indianapolis, IN area.

Below are the details:

Duties:

• This person will be working alongside Engineering manager, sales team, fabrication team, and purchasing to design and test heat exchangers and pressure vessels at a large and small scale
• This is less of a design focused role, but more focused on the quality of the design, and communication between the client, internal parties, and shop floor.
• Process this company takes:
• Inquiry
• Sales (Pricing of material, making a bid)
• Once bid is won, they generate a work order
• Engineering (Calculations, drawings, design) and then send to client
• Once approved by client, THEN the QC takes over
• The main difference between the Design Engineer and the QC Role is the role they play in the process. The QC is geared towards reviewing drawings and documents once the client approves the drawings. They look at ASME standards, make sure what has been designed is ASME compliant, and take part in the inspection and test plans (ITP’s), and they send this back to the client. They also have a large hand in the product from a machining, welding, x-ray inspection standpoint, visual inspection, non destructive testing. Then, they will amend the BOM (some clients require material ONLY come from the USA or other area, so this person works with purchasing) and then this person releases the drawings to the shop floor supervisor and purchasing.
• Materials used for this company are usually steel, stainless steel, steel alloys, and depending on the application, sometimes aluminum
• Job shop- no 2 projects are the same. May have 5 and upwards of 10 projects going on at once.
• Average project takes 24 weeks from initial winning of work to project completion
• Will create BOM’s for bid packages that will be submitted to clients
• Pipe used in exchanger could be <2 inches, or upwards of 120 inches in diameter
• Potential to interact with customers or suppliers
• Other terms for this industry are Pressure Vessels and Heat Exchangers
• Some products are made in house- for example, they have metal flanges they can machine in-house if they are under 24 inches- if they are over, they have machining suppliers domestically and internally that can fabricate heavy or specialized product
• Will review internal drawings and clients drawings once engineering is complete and verify things are up to ASME code/standard
• This role could spend more time on the floor than the Design Engineer, but probably a 60/40 split between office/floor.
• This role will have more direct communication with the client on a weekly basis compared to the Mechanical Design Engineer
• “needs to come from static equipment, QC, NDE, X ray, weld procedures and testing of welds “

Required Skills (Must have):

• Thorough understanding of 2D or 3D AutoCAD or Solidworks
• 4+ YOE
• This person needs to have experience in Quality- communicating with customers, vendors,
• ASME experience (REALLY prefer Section 8)
• Experience surrounding pressure vessels or heat exchangers
• Build Of Material creation
• Experience designing products composted of steel, aluminum, or stainless steel. Occasionally they will use other alloys
• Experience in Quality Control (testing, analysis, non destructive testing, pressure testing, weld inspection)
• Minimum of Associates in Mechanical Engineering, preferred Bachelors in Engineering

Preferred Skills (Nice to have):

• Job shop experience, fabrication.
• Understanding that each project is different- size, scope, and how it’s engineered isn’t always repeatable
• CWI or previous experience with welding/quality control on welds
• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering (Mechanical is preferred)
• Project engineer- sees project through from the initial bid, initial drawings, approval from client, and doing any engineering changes before fabrication takes place
• Would love someone from a pressure vessel/heat exchanger industry
• Ability to conduct specific calculations per ASME code
• Past experience working with other departments- sales, purchasing, other engineers, and customers
• Prefers people who have the personality of “come with solutions”