NDT (Non-Destructive Testing) Lead
CR/079314
Posted: 29/09/2025
- Competitive
- Qatar, Doha
- Contract
Position Overview: We are seeking an experienced NDT Lead to provide technical expertise and leadership across multiple offshore and subsea projects.
The role ensures that all NDT activities are executed to the highest standards of quality, safety, and compliance with international codes and best practices.
Key Responsibilities
Our role in supporting diversity and inclusion
As an international workforce business, we are committed to sourcing personnel that reflects the diversity and values of our client base but also that of Orion Group. We welcome the wide range of experiences and viewpoints that potential workers bring to our business and our clients, including those based on nationality, gender, culture, educational and professional backgrounds, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, and age differences, job classification and religion. In our inclusive workplace, regardless of your employment status as staff or contract, everyone is assured the right of equitable, fair and respectful treatment.
The role ensures that all NDT activities are executed to the highest standards of quality, safety, and compliance with international codes and best practices.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and supervise NDT Inspectors across multiple projects/packages.
- Ensure proper and consistent execution of NDT activities to safeguard asset integrity.
- Support engineering, procurement, fabrication, construction, transportation, and offshore installation works.
- Review, validate, and approve NDT procedures, records, and related documentation.
- Participate in qualification of PAUT, ToFD, and Pipeline AUT systems as well as NDT operators.
- Conduct site missions, audits, and inspections across global contractor/vendor locations.
- Provide quality and technical advice, resolve technical queries, and lead investigations into quality failures.
- Contribute to vendor assessments, audits, and Preferred Manufacturer List updates.
- Issue regular reports, lessons learned, and quality feedback notices.
- Minimum 15 years of experience in a similar role within the Oil & Gas industry, with strong subsea systems and offshore project exposure.
- Strong expertise in automatic welding and PAUT systems.
- Valid ISO 9712 Level III certifications in:
- Radiography (RT)
- Conventional Ultrasonic Testing (UT)
- Ultrasonic Time of Flight Diffraction (ToFD)
- Phased Array Ultrasonic Testing (PAUT)
- Penetrant Testing (PT)
- Magnetic Testing (MT)
- Visual Testing (VT)
- Additional expertise in flaw characterization, guide wave ultrasonic, and radiography interpretation is a plus.
- Familiarity with ASME, API, DNV, AWS, ASTM, NACE, and ISO standards.
- Strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.
- Fluency in English; ability to work in a multicultural environment.
- H2S OPITO and T-BOSIET certifications required.
Our role in supporting diversity and inclusion
As an international workforce business, we are committed to sourcing personnel that reflects the diversity and values of our client base but also that of Orion Group. We welcome the wide range of experiences and viewpoints that potential workers bring to our business and our clients, including those based on nationality, gender, culture, educational and professional backgrounds, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, and age differences, job classification and religion. In our inclusive workplace, regardless of your employment status as staff or contract, everyone is assured the right of equitable, fair and respectful treatment.
Alecz Palas
Senior Recruitment Consultant
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