HOW A MECHANICAL ENGINEER CAN DEVELOP HIS CAREER AS QA/QC ENGINEER?

QA/QC Engineers have nearly 100% placement opportunity with attractive salary in industrial construction.  Usually QA/QC Engineers are placed in engineering companies and consulting companies involved in construction of Industrial plants and equipments.  Industries of interest are Oil Field Industries (RIG, Gas Oil Separation Plant, Pipe line etc.), Refinery, Petrochemical Plant, Steel Plants, Power Plants, Boilers, Ship Building, Water Treatment Plant, Nuclear Plants and so on…

In order to achieve placement as QA/QC Engineer, engineers would requirement to attend specialization courses with relevant certification.   Usually fresh mechanical engineers do not have clear idea about the specialization courses and certifications necessary to get placement in QA/QC department. This condition became worse when candidates approach certain institutes, because they offer variety of courses and certificates which may or may not be required for QA/QC Engineer in industrial construction.  Hence this has to be clear at first.  

The image posted in this page is a classified advertisement for the selection of QA/QC Engineers which shows requirement of additional qualifications.  The certifications requested are American Standard certificates and British Standard certificates – Why?

The quality control of industrial construction is usually done in accordance with International construction Standards such as ASME, API, AWS, ANSI, ASTM, EN, BS, BIS etc. standards.  Please note that most of these standards are American Standards and British Standards.  Hence engineers should attend American and British standard courses to get placement as QA/QC Engineer.

Now it is important to understand, which are the courses and certifications?  In order to make it clear we must have some idea about the duties and responsibilities of QA/QC Engineer in the project.  Day to day activities of QA/QC Engineers includes many activities such as Review of Drawings (done by designer as per standard), Inspection of Raw materials, Review of Procedures, Fit up inspection, Monitoring of Welds, Post Weld Heat Treatment, Hardness Test, Non Destructive Inspection of welds (NDT), Surface Preparation and painting of spools, Pressure Test, Coating Inspection, Inspection at erection etc.  Hence QA/QC Engineers should know “How to do these activities as per relevant standard?” 

Most of the above activities are done in accordance with relevant standard (for example -  ASME B 31.1 for process piping, ASME Sec VIII for construction of pressure vessel, API 650 for construction of tanks etc.)  But some activities like Welding Inspection (ASME SEC IX), Non Destructive Testing (ASME SEC V), and Coating Inspection (SIPC) have some general standards which is being applied in conjunction with other standards.  Hence there are specialization courses in these segments.

This situation illustrates that candidate looking for placement as QA/QC Engineer should take care to get certified in American Standard or British Standard.   Certificates issued by ASNT, AWS, NACE, TWI, BGAS, API etc. are considered for placement as QA/QC Engineer.

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