About Elessent Clean Technologies
Elessent Clean Technologies is a global leader in process technologies to drive sustainability and carbon neutrality in the metal, fertilizer, chemical, and oil refining industries with an unwavering commitment to customer support. We provide extensive global expertise across our portfolio of offerings in key applications – MECS® sulfuric acid production, STATCO® alkylation, BELCO® wet scrubbing, and IsoTherming® hydroprocessing. Offering critical process equipment, products, technology, and services, we enable an array of industrial markets, including phosphate fertilizer, non-ferrous metals, oil refining, petrochemicals, and chemicals, to minimize their environmental impact and optimize productivity. We are dedicated to helping our customers produce high-quality products used in everyday life in the safest, most environmentally-sound way possible, with a vision to make the world a better place by creating clean alternatives to traditional industrial processes.
Regional Quality Engineer - EMEA Fabrication
Elessent is seeking an experienced industrial equipment Quality professional to serve as a regional quality and inspection lead for engineered products fabricated in Europe and other global supply regions. This position is responsible for coordinating, verifying, and advancing quality control activities for fabricated equipment, raw materials, supplier documentation, third-party inspection activities, and selected field-service work related to installation, maintenance, or repair.
The primary regional focus will be Belgium and surrounding EMEA fabrication and project locations. Remote candidates located near a major international airport within EMEA may be considered. The local Elessent office is in Hoeilaart, Belgium. This role reports to the Global Quality Leader based in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, and will work closely with global project managers, engineering specialists, suppliers, fabricators, contractors, and third-party inspection agencies.
Position Responsibilities (including, but not limited to):
1. Represent Elessent quality requirements with fabricators, manufacturers, suppliers, contractors, and third-party inspectors.
2. Coordinate with the Global Inspection Manager, project managers, engineering, procurement, and suppliers to plan and execute project inspection activities.
3. Lead or support pre-inspection meetings to review project specifications, inspection and test plans, hold/witness points, documentation requirements, and quality expectations before fabrication or field work begins.
4. Review and approve supplier and contractor quality documentation, including inspection and test plans, welding procedures, procedure qualification records, welder qualifications, NDE procedures, heat treatment procedures, coating procedures, material records, and final data books.
5. Organize inspection coverage for engineered products in accordance with approved ITPs, purchase order requirements, Elessent specifications, and the Elessent Equipment Inspection Matrix.
6. Perform shop inspections of fabricated equipment, raw materials, weldments, pressure-retaining components, mechanical assemblies, coatings, dimensional requirements, and final shipment readiness.
7. Verify that fabricated equipment and field-installed components conform to purchase order requirements, drawings, specifications, applicable codes, and approved procedures.
8. Manage, qualify, and coordinate third-party inspector activities when external inspection resources are used.
9. Perform or support supplier, fabricator, and contractor qualification activities, including shop surveys, welding program reviews, quality system assessments, and corrective action follow-up.
10. Monitor contractor quality performance during installation, maintenance, or repair work at jobsite locations when required.
11. Identify, document, communicate, and escalate deviations, quality risks, and nonconformances to the responsible Elessent project manager, quality leadership, and technical specialists.
12. Coordinate corrective actions with fabricators, suppliers, contractors, project managers, and engineering specialists; verify closure and effectiveness where required.
13. Support pressure vessel, pressure piping, heat exchanger, and specialty equipment quality activities, including coordination with fabricator quality management and authorized inspection personnel when applicable.
14. Submit clear inspection reports, inspection records, punch lists, nonconformance reports, and supporting documentation after each inspection or quality activity.
15. Prepare periodic regional quality status reports covering active fabrication, inspection progress, supplier performance, open quality issues, and project risks.
16. Inspect or coordinate inspection of raw materials at supplier facilities, fabricator shops, warehouses, or other storage locations.
17. Promote safe work practices and stop or escalate work when unsafe conditions, uncontrolled quality risks, or specification violations are observed.
Qualifications & Skill Requirements:
The successful candidate should meet most of the following requirements:
1. Minimum 10 years of quality control, inspection, supplier quality, or fabrication experience in industrial equipment, oil and gas, refining, chemical, power, or heavy manufacturing environments.
2. Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Welding Engineering, Metallurgy, Materials Science, or a related technical field preferred; equivalent technical experience may be considered.
3. Welding inspection certification required, such as AWS CWI, CSWIP 3.1/3.2, IWI, IWT/IWE, or equivalent.
4. Current or previous NDE Level II or Level III certification in one or more methods preferred, such as PT, MT, VT, RT, UT, or PMI, in accordance with ISO 9712, ASNT, PCN, or equivalent schemes.
5. Working knowledge of welding, fabrication, heat treatment, NDE, dimensional inspection, coating inspection, pressure testing, material traceability, and final documentation review.
6. Practical knowledge of applicable codes and standards such as ASME, NBIC, ASNT, AWS, API, PED, EN 13445, EN 13480, EN ISO 3834, EN ISO 15614, EN ISO 9606, and related European fabrication standards.
7. Experience reviewing ITPs, WPSs, PQRs, welder qualifications, NDE procedures, material test reports, inspection reports, and final manufacturing record books.
8. Experience working with pressure vessels, heat exchangers, pressure piping, fabricated internals, alloy materials, or chemical-process equipment preferred.
9. Experience qualifying or auditing fabricators, manufacturers, suppliers, or field contractors preferred.
10. Strong communication skills with the ability to work across cultures, time zones, technical disciplines, and organizational levels.
11. Ability to enforce project requirements with suppliers and contractors while maintaining professional working relationships.
12. High attention to detail, strong technical judgment, and the ability to identify quality risks before they become project delays or field failures.
13. Self-directed, proactive, organized, and comfortable working remotely with limited day-to-day supervision.
14. Willingness and ability to travel frequently within EMEA and occasionally to other international locations.
15. Experience with semi-automatic orbital TIG tube-to-tubesheet welding, specialty alloys, acid plant equipment, mist elimination, or sulfuric acid industry equipment is a plus.
Recruitment Fraud Notice
Elessent does not ask applicants to pay fees, purchase equipment, deposit checks, or provide banking information as part of the recruiting process. Official recruiting communications will come from an Elessent email address or through our authorized recruiting partners.
Applicants should be cautious of individuals or websites posing as Elessent recruiters, especially if they request payment, personal financial information, or urgent action outside of our normal hiring process.
Suspected recruitment scams may also be reported to the Federal Trade Commission at ReportFraud.ftc.gov or the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center at IC3.gov.
