NDE Engineer – Advanced Ultrasonic & Electromagnetic Inspection
Key Skills for This Role
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Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Engineering, Physics, Materials Science, Metallurgical Engineering, or a closely related technical field.
- Demonstrated professional experience in Nondestructive Testing (NDT) or Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE).
- Hands-on experience with Ultrasonic Testing (UT).
- Experience with Phased Array Ultrasonic Testing (PAUT), advanced ultrasonic inspection, or comparable advanced UT technology.
- Experience with electromagnetic NDT/inspection, including Eddy Current, MFL, EMI, EMAT, or related methods.
- Experience applying NDT methods to steel, steel pipe, tubular products, welds, or comparable metallic materials.
- Ability to interpret inspection results and communicate technical findings to engineering and operations teams.
- Strong technical problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Ability to work effectively in laboratory, manufacturing, inspection, and engineering environments.
Preferred Qualifications
- 3–5 years of directly relevant NDE/NDT engineering experience preferred; candidates with additional relevant experience may also be considered.
- Experience with OCTG, tubular products, steel mills, pipe manufacturing, railroad inspection, aerospace metallic components, or other steel inspection applications.
- Experience with NDE method development, inspection system development, or inspection equipment qualification.
- Experience with TOFD, AUT, FMC/TFM, UTSW, guided-wave ultrasonics, or other advanced NDE methods.
- Knowledge of probability of detection (POD), defect characterization, calibration, inspection sensitivity, and validation.
- Experience with signal processing, image processing, data acquisition, sensors, probes, transducers, or instrumentation.
- Experience with MATLAB, Python, LabVIEW, C/C++, or similar technical programming tools.
- Experience with FEA/FEM, COMSOL, ANSYS, or other modeling and simulation tools.
- Familiarity with ASNT, ASTM, ASME, API, AWS, or similar NDT and inspection standards.
- Research, product development, manufacturing engineering, or advanced inspection technology experience.
Responsibilities
- Develop, evaluate, validate, and improve NDE inspection methods and technologies for steel and tubular products.
- Apply Ultrasonic Testing (UT) and Phased Array Ultrasonic Testing (PAUT) to flaw-detection and inspection applications.
- Support or perform electromagnetic inspection (EMI) and related technologies such as Eddy Current, Magnetic Flux Leakage (MFL), or comparable electromagnetic NDT methods.
- Perform or support direct inspection and flaw detection of steel, steel pipe, tubular products, welds, and other metallic components.
- Develop and improve inspection techniques, scan plans, calibration methods, reference standards, procedures, and acceptance criteria.
- Analyze inspection data to characterize flaws and evaluate inspection sensitivity, reliability, repeatability, and false-call performance.
- Support development, qualification, and validation of NDE equipment, sensors, probes, transducers, instrumentation, and data-acquisition systems.
- Troubleshoot inspection equipment and investigate technical issues affecting data quality or defect detection.
- Use engineering analysis, experimental testing, signal processing, and data analysis to solve NDE problems.
- Support NDE technology development from concept and laboratory evaluation through implementation in manufacturing or inspection environments.
- Collaborate with mechanical, electrical, materials, software, manufacturing, quality, and operations teams.
- Prepare technical reports, procedures, presentations, test documentation, and engineering recommendations.
- Support continuous improvement initiatives focused on inspection efficiency, accuracy, reliability, and product quality.
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