Welding Inspector

Our Opportunity

Location : Christmas Creek and Cloudbreak - Fortescue’s Chichester Hub is located on the traditional lands of the Palyku and Nyiyaparli peoples.

Roster : 8D / 6R - FIFO from Perth, Busselton, Broome, Karratha, Port Hedland, Fitzroy Crossing, and Kununurra.

Reporting to the Welding Coordinator, the Welding Inspector will be responsible for ensuring compliance with welding standards, maintaining quality control, and supporting continuous improvement efforts across Fortescue's operational sites. The role requires technical expertise in welding processes, documentation review, and inspection activities.

Key Responsibilities

• Align with Fortescue values and safety culture, promoting safe work practices through field interactions with workgroups.
• Audit the welding quality management system in accordance with AS / NZS ISO 3834, ensuring compliance with specifications, codes, and standards.
• Create, review, and approve welding-related documentation, including ITPs, WPS, welder qualifications, weld maps, drawings, and MDRs, ensuring adherence to relevant specifications.
• Conduct site visits, inspect welded joints (fit-up, during, and post-welding), and supervise welding operations as needed to ensure compliance with specifications and industry best practices.
• Manage technical queries with stakeholders, coordinate welder qualification activities, oversee NDT operations, and generate NDT requests.
• Troubleshoot welding issues, provide practical solutions, and stay updated on industry trends, codes, and regulations to ensure engineering excellence and quality improvements.

Qualifications And Experience

About Us

Be part of something big. Fortescue is leading the world with our plan to decarbonise our iron ore operations, projects that harness renewable energy, and the development of technology that will change our planet forever.

Our Commitment

Fortescue celebrates individual strengths and encourages team members to bring their whole selves to work. Our global workforce promotes an inclusive culture across our organisation and communities, including First Nations Peoples, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+ community, gender, neurodiverse, cultural diversity, all age groups, and those with intersectional or multiple diverse characteristics. We welcome applications from all backgrounds.

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Internal candidates and current contractors should apply via the SuccessFactors Careers Portal. For more information, visit the Fortescue Hub.

Fortescue reserves the right to close applications early if a suitable candidate pool is identified. We will never ask for payment of any kind during the application process.

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