Welding Engineer / Welding Coordinator
Resume:
David Laruelo
MEng IWE CWI
Darlington Co Durham
DL3 9HW
Tel. 078********
Email: ********@*****.***
KEY QUALIFICATIONS
MEng in Industrial Engineering (Electrical and Electronic) International / European Welding Engineer (IWE/EWE) Certified Welding Inspector (CWI)
Visual Welding Inspector per EN 473 / ISO 9712 Level II
SUMMARY
A competent Welding Engineer with good practical skills and a thorough educational grounding with more than eight years of post-graduate experience in the field of steelwork fabrication and related activities including non-destructive testing and protective treatment. A wide knowledge of the specifications and standards that are used in the industry including International (BS EN ISO) and American (AWS, ASME).
CAREER EXPERIENCE
SANDBERG LLP – January 2016 – Current
As a Consultant Welding Engineer my job responsibilities are:
• Assisting clients and fabricators in any aspects of fabrication arc welding and inspection, including assistance in interpretation, review and preparation of documentation, e.g. preliminary welding procedures (pWPSs), welding procedures (WPSs), welding qualification records (WPQRs), welder qualification tests (WQTs), quality plans and inspection or test plans.
• Assisting Structural/Civil engineers or fabricators in development and interpretation of specifications usually based on BS EN 1090, the old BS 5400 Part 6 standard and the National Structural Steelwork Specification
(NSSS).
• Assisting fabricators throughout the process of CE marking assessment by a Notified Body (NB) which includes:
- An initial visit to review existing processes and systems.
- Guidance and assistance on the preparation of Factory Production Control
(FPC) and Welding Quality Management System (WQMS)
- Monitoring visits to assist with implementation of the above procedures.
- Training of personnel in use of the mentioned procedures and visual inspection.
- Provision of welding certification documentation such as pWPSs, WPQRs, WPSs amongst others.
- Act as a Responsible Welding Coordinator (RWC)
- Presence during the assessment by the NB.
MABEY BRIDGE LIMITED – January 2014 - October 2015
As a Responsible Welding Engineer reporting to the Chief Welding Engineer, my job responsibilities up to the point where Mabey Bridge Wind Tower division ceased trading were:
• Designing and producing all of the welding procedures and also a number of the welding instructions issued on our system.
• Conducting and approving new welding procedures needed to satisfy requirements out with normal company practice.
• Witness and register all of the welders and welding operators’ qualifications over the companies’ three sites.
• Supervise and organize Submerged Arc Welding trials as a way to improve productivity.
• Ensure the company satisfies all of the welding quality requirements according to ISO 3834-2.
Although my career was mainly focused on the wind tower and bridge manufacturing business during this period, I also played an important role in other ambitious Energy and Offshore projects which deserve to be mentioned, these include the fabrication of Monopile Support Structures and Electricity Pylons amongst others.
ITMA MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY – July 2011 - January 2014
Specific tasks as R+D Engineer in the Steel & Metallurgy Area, Welding and Joint Technologies Unit:
• Weldability studies of high strength steels, stainless steels and special steels and alloys (microalloyed steels, martensitic armour plates, etc.)
• Welding Procedure Specification design and welding & manufacturing plans.
• Setting up of Tandem and Tandem & Twin SAW processes.
• Robotized welding, cold wire TIG, CMT and pulsed CMT (Cold Metal Transfer).
• Mechanical and microstructural characterisation of welds.
• Failure analysis studies and failure analyses reports.
• Thermographic evaluation of welding processes
Development of National and European R+D projects related to welding:
- SAFETOWER (RFCS - CT - 2010 - 00028) RFCS Project (Research Fund for Coal and Steel) “Develop tailored manufacturing safe methods for wind towers erected in remote areas based on an integrated tower concept and optimal use of high strength steels”
Partnership: ISQ (Portugal), CSM (Italy), Hannover University (Germany), Germanischer Lloyds (Germany), ASM (Portugal), GAMESA (Spain), ITMA (Spain).
- HY88 “Development of an electric-hybrid 8x8 propulsion vehicle”, Spanish CDTI Project, subcontracted by ASTURFEITO S.A.
- O-BLADES “Study of fabrication of hollow welded blades” Regional PCTI Project subcontracted by ZITRON S.A.
AIMEN TECHNOLOGY CENTER – January 2009 - July 2011
Job responsibilities:
• Witness and approve welding procedure specifications for companies in the metalworking industry, these in accordance with AWS D1.1, AWS D1.5, AWS D1.6, ASME IX, API 1104 and ISO 15614-1, ISO 15614-2 standards.
• Qualifications of welder and welding operators in accordance with AWS, ASME and EN 287 standards.
• Collaboration in various Non-destructive research projects.
• Assisting other companies in gaining a quality standard accreditation for their products under either, ISO 3834, DIN 18800 or EN 1090-2 standards. This was my first job after qualifying as an International Welding Engineer, where I had the opportunity to study in depth the welding codes mentioned above.
As a Welding Engineer, reporting to the NDT Area Manager, I was responsible for developing and carrying out weld procedures and the qualification of welders.
Among other responsibilities, I assisted companies with quality audits and carried out research in a number of projects, these included the development of an procedure to calibrate our own UT equipment rather than calibrate it externally and the launch of a new UT (ultrasonic test) automatic process for the wind tower welds inspection (TOFD, Phased Array). The latter of the two projects mentioned above had the purpose of automating the inspection of welds using TOFD and Phased Array. For this purpose, I received technical training up to levels I and II in ultrasonic testing and OLYMPUS equipment management.
EDUCATION
- MEng in Industrial Engineering (Electrical and Electronic) Gijon Polytechnic School of Engineering
October 1999 - December 2007
- IIW/EWF Welding Engineering Diploma course
May 2008 - November 2008
- Inspection of Corrosion Protective Coatings course March 2010
- Radiation protection supervisor course
March 2010
- NDT Visual Testing (VT) Level 1 & 2
May 2010
- NDT Ultrasonic Testing (UT) Level 1 & 2
September 2011 - December 2011
- Certified Welding Inspector (CWI) course
March 2013
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