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Overview

The PEI Project Inspector role involves field-based inspection and integrity oversight for Pressure Equipment Integrity activities across construction projects, supporting a major integrated energy organization. The position is suited for experienced inspectors familiar with ASME, API, AWS, and PEI practices, aiming to enhance inspection quality and contractor compliance.

Responsibilities

  • Execute field inspections for piping, static equipment, pressure vessels, tanks, valves, supports, and anchors in accordance with Inspection Test Plans.
  • Witness and verify NDT, PWHT, pressure and leak testing, material traceability, and welding documentation.
  • Monitor contractor work for compliance with approved drawings, specifications, codes, and workmanship requirements.
  • Manage inspection hold and witness points and document acceptance against defined criteria.
  • Review MDRs, test packs, redlines, as-built documentation, certificates, and turnover dossiers.
  • Identify nonconforming work and manage NCRs and punch items through verified closure.
  • Participate in project walkdowns, mechanical completion, systemization, and commissioning-readiness activities.
  • Verify inspection records and material traceability are complete, accurate, and audit-ready.
  • Coordinate inspection activities across Construction, QA/QC, Welding, NDT, Commissioning, and Operations.
  • Identify recurring quality issues and contribute lessons learned to improve ITPs and field execution.
  • Enforce PTW/LOTO requirements, identify field hazards, and exercise stop-work authority when necessary.
  • Support safe, compliant, right-first-time project turnover to Operations.
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How this job compares in Houston, TX

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs in Houston, TX currently run a median of $27/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $22–$35/hr across 88 postings with published pay. That median is a reasonable floor to anchor on when a recruiter asks what you're looking for.

The local market in Houston, TX

We're tracking 361 other active welding openings in Houston, TX right now, from 196 different employers. 123 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,256 other active welding openings from 562 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Houston, or widen the search to Texas.

Primary Services currently has 1 other opening live in Texas, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Texas at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Austin Industries (34), Welding Shop in Austin, TX (27), and Zachry Group (23). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Texas, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Pasadena at $36/hr, Dallas at $35/hr, and Midlothian at $35/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

Certifications this posting mentions

  • ASME Section IX — the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code qualification. It covers welding on pressure-retaining equipment — boilers, vessels, and process piping — where a failed weld is a safety incident rather than a rework ticket.

Read straight from this posting's text. Confirm the exact qualification the employer wants before you test — requirements vary by shop even under the same code.

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