Becoming a Welder - Welding Career Guide

Senior Certified Welding Inspectors are similar to Certified Welding Inspectors — they just operate at the most advanced level. Senior CWIs have a better understanding of advanced NDE topics, quality systems, and procedure qualifications. Applicants must have a minimum of 15 years work experience with direct relationship to welding or with direct involvement in 2 or more areas of welding inspection.

Welding Educators understand the welding process, instruction plans, and evaluate students who are taking a welding process class. They understand the basic requirements of becoming a certified welder and the welder qualifications. They can read drawings and examinations, prepare records and develop reports.

Certified Radiographic Interpreters assess welding-related indications and procedures on radiographic film and related media. The program will help you learn proper film exposure, image quality, and follow the AWS, API, and ASME codes. Certified Radiographic Interpreter learns properties of x and gamma radiation, photographic assets, radiation safety principles, calculations, application to welds, welding technology, and effects of equipment from radiographs.

Certified Welding Supervisors can save up to $17,000 per welder per year. They increase quality and production, reduce welding costs, maximize profits, and oversee safety processes. Certified Welding Supervisors overlook welders' work, productivity, and overall quality.

Certified Welding Sales Representatives are familiar with new welding technologies that can improve and/or streamline the quality of welding processes. They must be knowledgeable of welding and its dynamics. They help with technical support and lend guidance to those that need an appropriate application of welding technology products. They must know about the five arc welding process, brazing and soldering, cutting, welding terminology, ventilation, and electrical requirements for power sources.

Certified Welding Engineers are familiar with written instructions and codes of the welded joints process and production. They also are familiar with specifications, standards, and other rules of the assembly process of welding. Their job begins before production of welding and continues throughout the process.

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The Nuclear Material Organization helps provide materials and services to the nuclear power industry.

Nuclear component type helps ensure persons or organizations performing quality assurance functions identify quality problems, recommend or provide solutions through departmental channels, assure future processing, delivery, installation, and satisfaction of conditions. They must also make sure that ensure design specifications are available for all components, are adequate and available to the ANI before fabrication begins.

Nuclear Quality Assurance helps organizations supply items or services that provide safety for a nuclear facility.

Is the leading standard on how to design and build equipment for the production of biopharmaceuticals and personal care products industry. This process helps with high levels of hygienic requirements. It incorporates current best practices for enhancing a product's safety.

The piping instructor helps provide a continued high level of safety, improve management control and, reduce production delays.

Above ground storage tanks inspectors inspect the safety and quality of tanks. They also repair damaged tanks and help assist state and local government regulations.

Tank entry supervisors must have knowledge of aboveground petroleum tanks and construction. They must understand ventilation, tank decommissions isolation, work permitting, emergency response, and tank recommissioning.

Pipeline inspectors should be knowledgeable about general onshore pipeline construction inspection, their responsibilities, personnel and general pipeline safety, and environmental and pollution control.

Pipeline Inspection

General Oil and Gas Inspection

Non-Inspection Pipeline Experience

General Oil and Gas Industry

Other Heavy Industry Experience

Corrosion and materials certification are highly specialized inspectors, corrosion engineers, chemical engineers, and other professionals across the petrochemical industry.

A Welding Inspection and Metallurgy certification is for highly specialized inspectors, welding engineers, metallurgists, and other professionals across the petrochemical industry.

Risk Based Inspection is quickly becoming one of the industry’s most premier instruments and preferred methods of control. Engineers and other professionals across the petrochemical industry have a higher understanding of this field.

Refractory personnel is open to applicants with any experience in petroleum and petrochemical industries. Must be knowledgeable in installation, inspection, testing, and repair of refractory linings.

Source inspector fixed equipment is open to applicants with any experience in the petroleum and petrochemical industries. The source inspector has been defined as the individual responsible for examining fabricated and manufactured equipment and materials, and confirming the supplier's quality management system.

A Source inspector for electrical equipment will cover the inspection of electrical material from junction boxes, control panels, electrical systems, transformers, switchgears, motor control centers, and electric motors.

Electrical Inspector

Non-Inspection Electrical Experience

General Inspector with Some Electrical Experience

A Source Inspector for Rotating Equipment is the second certification in the source inspector suite. Developed by industry experts, the focuses of this certification include pumps, gears, compressors, and turbines.