Welding Auditor - Indpendent Contractor

Overview
This Welding Auditor position is an excellent opportunity for recent retirees or consultants that have working knowledge in welding processes.

Our auditors enjoy traveling domestically and/or internationally, a flexible schedule (some auditors perform 1 or 2 audits a month, while others desire to audit every week), competitive compensation that includes a daily rate plus travel expenses, meeting new people and keeping in touch with technology and the latest developments, networking with other industry professionals.

Qualifications
The ideal auditor candidate will possess most of the following criteria:

Note: All applicants will be considered for auditing in either Aerospace orTransportation & Power Generation Industry Programs. Details are noted in this section of each industry welding qualifications.

Aerospace Welding Auditor Qualifications:

• Experience working as a manufacturing engineer, process engineer, or quality engineer in the aerospace industry with a background in welding.
• Practical experience in a manufacturing environment in the aerospace industry is required.
• Knowledge of quality systems, and/or experience participating in quality system audits or manufacturing process audits
• Must have strong knowledge of the GTAW process and aerospace industry welding specifications plus experience with processes such as torch brazing, induction brazing, resistance welding, electron beam welding or laser welding
• Professional CQA (Certified Quality Auditor) or CWI (Certified Welding Inspector) a plus

Transportation & Power Generation Welding Auditor Qualifications including candidates living in Brazil:

The ideal auditor candidate will possess most of the following criteria:

• Education and experience in welding processes (preferred), or alternative qualifications with relevant experience may be considered acceptable
• 10 years’ or more experience with welding process development (WPS) on the shop floor and preparation and completion of the welding qualifications (PQR, QTR).
• Must have working knowledge in some of these major weld processes: SMAW, FCAW, GTAW, GMAW, SAW, AWS, D 1.1 and D 15.1
• Knowledge of quality assurance systems
• Auditing experience a must (auditor and/or audit participation)
• Ability to read and write audit findings in English

WORKING CONDITIONS AND PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Travel Required: Most audits are conducted on-site at clients’ locations.
• Physical Demands: Auditor is frequently required to walk and to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; talk and hear. The auditor is occasionally required to stand; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. Work requires regular physical strain such as long periods of driving and flying. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close distance, distant vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, ability to hear and understand conversation in noisy environments and the ability to adjust focus.
• Work environment: Exposed to a combination of normal office type environments and shop environments. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate with regular exposure to shop elements such as very loud noise, moving parts, odor, dust, fumes, heat, cold or chemicals.
• Personal Protective Equipment: The performance of this position regularly requires exposure to a typical manufacturing area, under certain conditions that may require the use of personal protective equipment such as safety glasses with side shields, mandatory hearing protection, steel toe shoes and hard hats.