Would you thrive in a role where welding excellence, technical rigor and cross‑functional collaboration ensure flawless execution of fabrication processes?
Would you bring the discipline, expertise and problem‑solving mindset needed to drive continuous improvement and compliance in welding operations?
Join our Quality Team!
At Baker Hughes, Quality is essential to delivering safe, reliable and high-performing products. Our Product QA team ensures alignment with the Quality Management System (QMS), customer requirements and industry standards across welding, fabrication and validation processes.
Partner with the best!
As a Quality Engineer, Product QA (Welding Discipline), you will ensure that welding processes, consumables, qualifications and inspection requirements are properly implemented, validated and monitored across internal operations and suppliers. You will collaborate closely with engineering, materials, NDE specialists and customer representatives to guarantee flawless execution.
As the Quality Engineer, Product QA (Welding Discipline) you will be responsible for:
- Supporting product engineering in identifying, reviewing and implementing welding requirements.
- Developing project welding matrices aligned with the Materials Engineering team.
- Qualifying welding processes in‑house and reviewing supplier welding qualification processes.
- Recording welding qualifications properly through PQRs and WPS documentation.
- Reviewing and approving local welding work instructions.
- Implementing and controlling best practices for welding consumables, including required approvals per applicable industry codes.
- Overseeing welding operations in‑house and at suppliers according to ABNT NBR 14842 responsibilities.
- Witnessing laboratory tests for welding and welder qualifications and reporting results.
- Controlling welder qualification records and monitoring performance per relevant standards.
- Deploying continuous improvement actions in welding operations based on product performance.
- Supporting Project Quality teams with welding expertise across live projects.
- Interfacing with customer welding SMEs during project execution.
- Identifying and escalating critical observations and concerns across the organization.
- Running product quality audits and performing Gemba walks to verify project requirements flow-down.
- Supporting and/or leading Go/No-Go reviews and facilitating pre-production meetings.
- Capturing, resolving and communicating welding Lessons Learned to product delivery and supply teams.
- Ensuring welding non‑conformances are properly identified and recorded by the responsible fabrication contacts.
- Witnessing product inspections and qualification activities as per inspection and test plans.
- Reviewing and approving supplier welding quality records.
- Communicating with colleagues regarding approaches and methods for solving complex welding issues.
- Adhering to Product Line directives for standard quality requirements at fabrication sites.
- Contributing to root‑cause analyses for welding non‑conformances and issues.
- Supporting the Quality team in evaluating NDE inspection applicability and improvements in‑house or at suppliers.
- Reviewing and approving weld maps.
Fuel your passion
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Welding, Materials or Production Engineering.
- Have Welding Inspector Qualification FBTS Level 2 (ISN2 SNQC FBTS) (mandatory)
- Have knowledge of Brazilian customer quality requirements for subsea fabrication (XT, Manifolds, Tooling).
- Have strong and proven experience in welding discipline for subsea equipment.
- Have fluent English skills.
- Have experience performing quality audits to support customer project assessments.
- Have knowledge in product quality inspection and documentation analysis.
- Have experience interacting with customers and inspection bodies.
- Have knowledge of NDE inspections (MP, DP, UT, PAUT, etc).
- Have knowledge of common Oil & Gas materials.
- Have strong oral and written communication skills. (Desired)
- Have strong interpersonal and leadership skills. (Desired)
- Have the ability to influence others and lead small teams. (Desired)
- Have the ability to coordinate multiple projects simultaneously. (Desired)
- Have strong analytical, problem‑solving and organizational skills. (Desired)
Work in a way that works for you
In this role, we can offer the following flexible working patterns:
- Working flexible hours – from 7am–4pm or from 8am–5pm.
- Location: Curitiba, PR.
Working with us
Our people are at the heart of everything we do at Baker Hughes. We know we are better when all our people are developed, engaged and able to bring their whole authentic selves to work. We invest in the health and well-being of our workforce, train and reward talent and develop leaders at all levels to bring out the best in each other.
Working for you
- We reward those who embrace innovation and continuous improvement with:
- Contemporary work-life balance policies and wellbeing activities
- Comprehensive private medical care options
- Safety net of life insurance and disability programs
- Tailored financial programs
- Additional elected or voluntary benefits
The Baker Hughes internal title for this role is: Quality Senior Specialist - QA Engineering
