Machining Sr. Engineer

Role overview

Process inspection and product verification

• Execute incoming, in-process, and final inspections of machined components.
• Verify compliance with drawings, tolerances, specifications, and customer requirements, including mandatory first-piece and final inspections before release.
• Monitor machining operations against approved process parameters.
• Control identification, segregation, and status of conforming and non-conforming products.

Measurement systems and calibration

• Ensure measuring and inspection equipment is calibrated, verified, and traceable to national and international standards.
• Manage calibration of CMMs, gauges, micrometers, calipers, and precision instruments.
• Maintain calibration records, status labels, and recall systems; remove and report out-of-calibration equipment.

Compliance, traceability, and improvement

• Ensure machine-shop compliance with API Spec Q1, API 20A, API 20B, ISO 9001, and applicable international standards.
• Enforce product identification, traceability, preservation, storage, and handling requirements; verify inspection records, travellers, and documentation.
• Support First Article Inspection, qualification processes, and customer inspections.
• Lead root cause analysis; issue, manage, and close NCRs, CAPAs, and corrective actions; monitor effectiveness and prevent recurrence.
• Analyze rejection trends and drive continuous improvement.

Documentation, audits, and technical support

• Prepare and maintain inspection reports, quality records, and release documentation in line with API Spec Q1 and ISO 9001 requirements.
• Support internal, external, and API audits with full readiness.
• Provide technical guidance and training to QC staff and production teams; coordinate with cross-functional teams to resolve quality issues.

Education and experience

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Production, or Manufacturing Engineering, or equivalent.
• At least 7 years of quality-control experience in casting, forging, or heavy machining.
• Hands-on dimensional inspection, visual inspection, and testing of machined components, including CMM inspection.
• Experience with customer inspections and third-party and client inspectors.

Technical knowledge and skills

• Strong knowledge of machining processes, CNC operations, machining process sheets, and manufacturing drawings.
• Proficiency in GD&T, engineering drawings, tolerances, fits, and precision measurement techniques.
• Knowledge of API Spec Q1, API 20A, API 20B, ISO 9001:2015, and customer-specific quality requirements.
• Knowledge of identification, traceability, inspection records, NCR, CAPA, and documentation control.
• Familiarity with ASME, ASTM, ISO, and customer inspection specifications.
• Hands-on use of CMMs, gauges, micrometers, vernier calipers, dial indicators, and other precision instruments.
• Ability to interpret machining process sheets, CNC programmes, drawings, and inspection plans; prepare inspection, FAI, dimensional, and ERP/MES quality documentation.
• Strong root-cause analysis, communication, customer handling, coordination, attention to detail, integrity, and quality focus.