QA&QC Specialist

QA&QC Specialist

Location: Brunsbüttel, Germany

Duration: 3 months

Start Date: ASAP

Position Overview

This position offers the opportunity to support quality assurance and quality control activities on a construction site within the chemical or petrochemical sector. The role is focused on maintaining inspection standards, supporting compliance with project quality requirements, and helping ensure that installation and testing activities are properly documented and verified. This opportunity will suit a technically strong professional with site-based QA/QC inspection experience in Germany and a practical understanding of construction quality processes.

Role Context

This opportunity is based in Brunsbüttel and supports construction-phase activities within an industrial plant environment. The working context includes inspections across multiple disciplines such as piping, steelwork, concrete, equipment installation, coatings, and cable installation. The role also involves working around active construction activities, supporting handover readiness, and contributing to quality performance on site.

Key Responsibilities

Carry out construction site inspections in line with inspection and test plans.

Monitor execution activities including pipe construction, steel construction, concrete works, and equipment installation.

Document, report, and follow up on non-conformities, non-compliance issues, and quality complaints.

Support document control, material handling, and material flow activities relevant to quality assurance.

Inspect and verify installation works for pressure vessels, storage tanks, rotating equipment, boilers, and steam generators.

Review and support testing and documentation for protective coatings, insulation, fire protection coatings, refractory coatings, and cable installation.

Support functional tests, loop checks, handover procedures, and completion documentation.

Conduct audits and inspections to verify compliance with standards, specifications, and contractual quality requirements.

Prepare and maintain inspection protocols, test reports, punch lists, and as-built documentation.

Provide weekly reporting to construction management and support implementation of the project quality management plan.

Qualifications & Experience

Several years of QA/QC inspection experience on projects in Germany.

Experience within chemical or petrochemical plant environments.

Bachelor’s degree, Master’s degree, Dipl.-Ing. in E&I, or Technician qualification.

Strong knowledge of inspection and test plans and quality documentation processes.

Experience conducting inspections on construction sites across multiple technical disciplines.

Understanding of occupational health and safety requirements on construction sites.

Very good written and spoken German, with English knowledge considered advantageous.

Good MS Office skills; knowledge of scheduling programs is beneficial.

Ability to work in site conditions, including inspections at elevated work areas.

Relevant certifications such as welding supervision, NDT, or Pressure Equipment / PED are advantageous depending on trade background.

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