Quality Compliance Inspector

Ensuring Chart’s Success…

Howden, a Chart Industries Company, is a global engineering business that focuses on providing clients with industrial products that help multiple sectors improve their everyday processes. Howden’s core focus is on providing quality solutions for air and gas handling, and have over a century of experience in doing so.

We invite you to join Howden South Africa as a Quality Compliance Inspector. We are looking for an experienced Inspector to effectively monitor quality standard compliance for the Business Unit.

What Will You Do?

• Conduct Quality audits according to schedule and compile audit reports accurately, on time, and in accordance with procedure. Raise, follow up and close audit findings.
• Ensure Calibration Status of Howden Power measuring and Test equipment is maintained.
• Supplier inspections: Undertake surveillances, audits, dimensional, visual and welding inspections and report on conformance to Project engineers.  Authorise the release of items to site to indicate quality conformance
• Initiate, follow up and close out of Non-Conformance Reports (NCR) on products found to be non-compliant
• Prepare, review and monitor Quality Control plans to ensure that the quality system and contractual quality requirements are adhered to and ensure that Project Quality requirements are communicated to all relevant parties.
• Verify and ensure Suppliers are working in accordance with the Latest copies of Howden Power purchase Specifications and Procedures. 
• Provide assistance to in-house inspections when required
• Expedite progress on additional Orders at suppliers during inspections. 
• Conduct Quality training in-house and with supplier personnel in line with the agreed annual programme, thereby creating quality awareness, which will lead to continuous improvement and development.

Your Experience Should Be...

• Grade 12
• At least 5 years’ experience as an artisan Boilermaker/Fitter and Turner, having sufficient experience to manufacture structural steel and plate work to drawings.
• Ability to read and interpret technical drawings and specifications
• Knowledgeable on the use and applications of various measuring and test equipment.
• Welding and Fabrications Inspector Level 1 and 2, and an understanding of welding/ fabrication defects.
• Knowledge of various NDT methods and procedures.
• Computer literacy – Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Word.
• Good problem-solving skills.
• ISO 9000 Quality Management Systems training.
• Internal/ Supplier audit on quality management system courses.

Our Benefits Package...

Howden provides a great benefits package in addition to an attractive salary. The Company also offers the opportunity to work in an exciting, fast-paced environment within a global engineering company.