Job Title: Supplier Quality Representative (SQR)
Duration: 3–6 months
Schedule: Monday-Friday, full-time, 40 hours per week
Location: San Antonio/Schertz, TX
This opportunity supports supplier quality surveillance activities within a structural steel fabrication environment in Central Texas. The role focuses on shop surveillance, inspection, document review, nonconformance reporting, and shipment release activities, with a strong emphasis on QA/QC, structural steel, coatings, and procurement document compliance. This position offers the chance to work in a technically demanding industrial setting where quality oversight has a direct impact on fabrication progress, compliance, and project delivery.
Required Education:
- High school diploma or equivalent plus 1,000 hours of in-shop surveillance, examination, or testing activities; or Associate Degree or equivalent related coursework plus 500 hours of related in-shop experience; or two years of related experience involving 2,000 hours of in-shop surveillance, examination, or testing activities
Required Experience:
- Experience performing in-shop quality surveillance, examination, or testing activities within supplier or vendor facilities
- Experience reviewing procurement document requirements, inspection and test requirements, drawings, specifications, and supplier documentation
- Experience identifying, documenting, and following up nonconformances in a fabrication or manufacturing environment
- Experience witnessing operations, inspections, examinations, or tests such as welding, fit-up, dimensional verification, blasting, coating, final inspection, factory acceptance testing, or pre-shipment verification
- Ability to travel routinely to supplier facilities within the assigned area
- Ability to work safely in an industrial fabrication environment with exposure to noise, heat, cold, dust, fumes, and moving equipment while wearing required personal protective equipment
- Ability to climb ladders and stairs, work at elevation, enter confined or restricted spaces where authorised, stand and walk for extended periods, and lift and carry inspection equipment of approximately 25 pounds
Required Skills:
- Strong knowledge of quality assurance and quality control principles within supplier quality and shop surveillance activities
- Ability to monitor fabrication processes through observation, document review, witnessing of examinations and tests, and selective hands-on inspection
- Ability to prepare clear, factual, and timely surveillance reports as auditable records of attendance, observations, and actions
- Working knowledge of word processing and spreadsheet applications, electronic submission of reports and assignment tracking, and digital camera use
- Ability to reach defensible conclusions independently while working under moderate supervision in a supplier facility
- Working familiarity with applicable industry codes and standards including ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code, ASME B31.1, ASME B31.3, AWS D1.1, API standards, and AMPP/SSPC coating standards
- Ability to verify corrective actions, track open actions, and report repeat findings and adverse trends
- Vision and hearing, with correction as needed, sufficient to perform visual examination and witness testing
Required Certifications:
- Valid driver’s licence
- Ability to obtain and maintain any facility or export-control access required for assigned suppliers
Preferred Qualifications:
- At least 4–5 years of QA/QC, supplier quality, or shop-surveillance experience
- Structural steel fabrication and coating experience
- Commodity experience in structural steel and plate work, piping, spools, valves, supports, pressure vessels, exchangers, tanks, skids or modules, rotating equipment, packaged units, electrical and instrumentation equipment, protective coatings and linings, or precast and prestressed concrete products
- Industry certifications such as ASNT Level II, AWS Certified Welding Inspector, AMPP/NACE coating inspector, or NPCA Production and Quality School certification
- Experience with quality programmes including ISO 9001, 10 CFR 50 Appendix B, or NQA-1
- Experience on engineering, procurement, and construction projects in energy, nuclear, liquefied natural gas, mining and metals, or major infrastructure
- Experience with supplier assessment, surveillance level determination, supplier requalification, or supplier document and certification data book control
- Experience with international suppliers and translated documentation
About Airswift:
Airswift is an international workforce solutions provider within the energy, process and infrastructure industries. Airswift serves as a strategic partner to clients, offering a turnkey workforce solution to capture and deliver the top talent needed to complete successful projects by aligning with unique project needs. With over 1000 employees and 9,000 contractors operating in over 60 countries, Airswift's geographical reach and pool of talent available is unmatched in the industry.
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