Senior Certified Welding Inspector III (AWS SCWI) — Baytown, TX

What a week in this job looks like

The week is programs, people, and the hard calls: a fabricator audit before a steel package is released, a review of a CWI's reports that turned up an inconsistent acceptance standard, a procedure qualification you are witnessing for a new pipe alloy, and a disputed UT indication where the erector wants to grind and you want to see the scan. You still inspect — enough to keep your eye — but your leverage is in the standard every inspector on the program applies.

You are the company's welding memory: which fabricators are reliable, which joint details cause trouble, and which codes changed this cycle.

Certifications, training, and where this leads

Senior Welding Inspector III is a senior technical seat. The path from here is director of steel and welding inspection for the practice, or quality management on the industrial programs where welding is the critical path.

Pay, schedule, and travel

Pay runs $50 to $68 an hour depending on certifications held, verified experience, and the program you are assigned to. Welding inspection follows the erector's and the fabricator's schedule: early starts, night shifts on some industrial work, and overtime when steel is going up.

Texas positions are dispatched from the Sugar Land headquarters; project-site positions elsewhere are staffed on a project basis with travel and per diem as assigned, and the listing for your city says which one it is.

Safety, quality, and the standards we work under

Welding inspection is performed to the code the project specifies and reported under our documented AASHTO R18 quality system; on IBC special inspection projects the reports go to the building official under Chapter 17. Accept/reject decisions are made to the code, not to the schedule.

The safety side is real: work at height, confined spaces, hot work, and active erection. Fall protection, confined-space, and site-specific training are provided and required.

How hiring works, and our commitment

Apply with your AWS certification number, the codes you inspect to, and your project list. Expect a direct conversation with the people you would work for, references that get called, and a written offer consistent with this posting. The role requires a valid driver's license and the ability to be present on active jobsites, with pre-employment screening consistent with jobsite and client requirements.

We are an equal opportunity employer and consider every applicant without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or veteran status.