QA/QC Specialist
Date: Apr 29, 2025
Location: South Plainfield, NJ, US
Company: PSEG
Requisition: 81919
PSEG Company: Public Service Electric & Gas Co.
Salary Range: $ 88,400
- $ 140,000
Work Location Category: Hybrid Flexible
PSEG operates under a Flexible Work Model where flexible work is offered when job requirements allow. In support of this model, roles have been categorized into one of four work location categories:
Onsite are roles that have specific onsite requirements and are typically onsite daily.
Hybrid fixed are roles that are a blend of onsite work/in-person interactions with some ability to work remotely and require employees to live within a commutable distance and be onsite fixed days each week.
Hybrid flexible are roles that can be performed remotely but require some level of onsite work/in-person interactions on a regular basis, require employees to live within a commutable distance and, since business needs vary by position and may change over time, managers will set expectations and flexibility regarding where and when work is performed.
Fully remote are roles that can be performed remotely, require employees to live in approved states and will have purpose-driven in-person interactions on occasion.
We want you to be healthy, balanced, and feel secure. That’s why you’ll enjoy a comprehensive range of benefits, with a focus on supporting your whole health. Starting on day one of your employment, you’ll be offered several health-related benefits including medical, vision, dental, well-being and behavioral health programs. We also offer a retirement program, 401(k) with company match, company paid life insurance, tuition reimbursement and a minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year (including vacation, scheduled holidays, and floating holidays).
PSEG offers a unique experience to our more than 12,000 employees – we provide the resources and opportunities for career development that come with being a Fortune 500 company, as well as the attention, camaraderie, and care for one another you might typically associate with a small business. Our focus on combatting climate change through clean energy technology, our new net zero climate vision for 2030 and enhanced commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion; and supporting the communities we serve make this a particularly exciting time to join PSEG.
Job Summary
The Field Quality Assurance/Quality Control Specialist is primarily responsible for field construction oversight surveillance inspections and assessments of project quality control to help ensure compliance with the company’s Quality policy and procedures, industry standards and government regulations and to provide QA/QC related support to projects & construction (P&C) project teams and contractors. The objective is to ensure the projects achieve and maintain a high standard of quality.
Job Responsibilities
The specific responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:
1. Preparation of QA/QC plans (such as QA program plan, test and inspection plans, and surveillance plans) checklists, reports, and procedures, as required.
2. Conduct assessments and oversight surveillance inspections of field construction to ensure compliance with project’s engineering, procurement, and construction specifications. This includes performing daily inspections and tests of scope to help achieve the quality of construction requirements in drawings and specifications.
3. Perform assessment and analysis of project related documents (certificates, calibration, test results, inspection reports, receiving documents, NCRs, etc.) including procedures to ensure compliance with project requirements including construction related forms.
4. Review of company contractors’ (architect and engineering’s, program managers, construction contractors, and equipment vendors) “Quality Assurance Plans and Processes”, and determination of their adequacy and compliance with project requirements.
5. Completion of appropriate checklists to facilitate oversight responsibilities and documentation of inspection/assessment results, findings, and observations, report them to QA/QC management and recommend corrective actions, as requested. Validate corrective actions are performed and completed in a timely manner.
6. Collection, and analysis of data related to processes, construction, equipment maintenance, materials, and other project related activities to identify non-compliances and potential areas of concern/risk; and recommend solutions. Maintain daily inspection and observation logs/reports and provide report to QA/QC management on a weekly basis, including presentations to management.
7. Provide advice to project and company management in QA/QC matters; including identifying regulatory and industry references (for quality, safety, environmental compliance, equipment maintenance, operator qualification, etc.) which are required to be complied with.
8. Support and lead ad hoc requests related to QA/QC activities.
9. Familiarity with safe work practices and procedures as well as environmental.
Job Specific Qualifications
Required:
• High School Diploma or GED
• Minimum 5 years’ experience quality control/assurance and/or compliance, including at least one year field construction and/or inspections at Transmission & Distribution Projects.
• Know construction and/or ISO standards/codes.
• Strong analytical, interpersonal, communication skills-written/verbal. Report writing, present data, findings to management.
• Think strategically, see big picture, sound judgment; self-directed, team-player, accountable.
• Strive for personal and departmental continuous improvement.
• Sound ethical behaviors.
• Proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint).
• Must have valid driver’s license and vehicle.
• Able to walk/inspect over 70% of time, travelling across multiple P&C work sites.
• Approximately 10% travel outside NJ.
Required Competencies:
• Oversight Surveillance Inspections Inside/Outside Plant construction ensuring Civil & Electrical activities/construction conform with P&C specifications, standards, policies, and Contractors deliver services compliant with contractual requirements, meeting PSE&G expectations.
• Welding inspections-review and approve Contractor’s Welding procedures, Welder Qualification Records, any other procedures including Quality Plans.
• Review Civil (Concrete) batch results prior to installation of equipment/structure.
• Review Contractor’s Quality Control records/checklists including materials receipts, inspections.
• Ensure Project performs Material Preventive Maintenance (PM) and maintains PM records prior to installation and/or storage.
• Witness Commissioning & Start-up work to ensure compliance with specified requirements.
• Issue Non-Conformance Reports.
• Perform field Self-Assessments evaluating project teams’/Contractors’ implementation, adequacy, and effectiveness of P&C Project Management Procedures (HSE, Material Management and Construction Oversight).
Desired Qualifications and Skills
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering. At least five years’ work experience, combination of construction associated with energy installations; minimum five years in QA/QC audits, field inspections or surveillances.
• Ten plus years of experience in QA/QC in lieu of engineering degree.
• Formal Lead Auditor 40 hours Training.
• ANAB or IRCA or Equivalent Lead Auditor Certification.
• Formal ISO 9001 Quality Management System Training.
• Working knowledge of industry codes, standards, and regulations (ISO 9001, ASME IX, AWS D1.1, ASNT, ASTM). AWS and NDE certifications are desirable
Minimum Years of Experience
Education
Certifications
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If you are a current PSEG employee and if you are offered an opportunity with PSEG Long Island, you will be treated as a new hire. Please note that as a new hire to the Long Island subsidiary, your benefits will change and generally will be consistent with other similarly situated PSEG Long Island new hires. Similarly, for PSEG Long Island employees who accept job opportunities with PSEG or any of its subsidiaries (other than PSEG Long Island), their benefits would change and generally be consistent with other similarly situated new hires of that company.
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