PEI Inspector

This role serves as the site’s senior PEI inspection authority, responsible for executing inspections, verifying compliance with inspection requirements, and providing independent challenge to execution and integrity management activities.

The ST Inspector – PEI works closely with PEI specialists, maintenance teams, planners, and contractors while maintaining inspection independence. The role does not set enterprise standards, but ensures rigorous verification of asset condition and compliance at site level, escalating concerns through established governance channels when required.

• →Perform planned and ad-hoc inspections of pressure equipment, piping, and integrity-critical mechanical assets
• →Verify asset condition and compliance with inspection plans, procedures, and applicable requirements
• →Identify damage mechanisms, degradation, and integrity threats that could affect safe operation
• →Document inspection findings clearly, including risk ranking, recommended actions, and supporting evidence
• →Validate completion and effectiveness of corrective and preventive actions arising from inspection findings
• →Support audits, assessments, and incident investigations with PEI inspection expertise
• →Provide inspection feedback to support improvement of inspection strategies and integrity management practices
• →Independent PEI Inspection & Assurance: Deliver high-quality, objective inspections that provide confidence in the condition, integrity, and fitness-for-service of pressure equipment and integrity-critical assets.
• →Integrity Threat Identification & Escalation: Identify damage mechanisms, degradation, and integrity risks that could impact safety or reliability; ensure findings are clearly documented and escalated through appropriate site governance.
• →Inspection Quality & Technical Rigor: Maintain a consistently high standard of inspection execution, technical judgement, and documentation, ensuring outputs are accurate, evidence-based, and actionable.
• →Corrective Action Verification: Verify corrective and preventive actions addressing inspection findings are completed within required timeframes and effective.
• →Governance & Compliance Support: Ensure inspections are executed in alignment with approved inspection plans, procedures, and enterprise requirements, supporting regulatory and internal compliance obligations.
• →Continuous Improvement Contribution: Contribute to improvement of inspection effectiveness by identifying trends, recurring issues, and opportunities to strengthen inspection scope, methods, or frequencies.

• Must have legal authorization to work in the US on a full-time basis for anyone other than current employer
• Highschool degree or GED
• Minimum of 5 years of petrochemical, refining, chemical, or industrial pressure equipment inspection experience.
• API 510 certification required, API 570 certification preferred.
• National Board and PA Department of Labor and Industry certifications strongly preferred. Must be able to obtain if not currently certified.
• Strong technical background in mechanical inspection, PEI, or integrity-related disciplines within an industrial or process environment
• Experience using inspection and maintenance systems such as wIMS and SAP.
• Extensive understanding of pressure equipment, piping systems, and common damage mechanisms
• Demonstrated experience performing independent inspections and assessing asset condition objectively
• Ability to interpret and apply inspection plans, technical requirements, and integrity-related documentation
• Proven capability to document inspection findings clearly, accurately, and with appropriate risk context
• Confidence and professional judgement to challenge unsafe or noncompliant conditions
• Effective communication skills to interface with PEI specialists, maintenance teams, contractors, and leadership
• A strong personal commitment to safety, asset integrity, and disciplined inspection practices

Shell in The United States

With more than 11,000 employees, Shell has been in the US for more than 100 years and is delivering secure energy supplies across America.

From producing a reliable supply of oil and gas in the US Gulf of America to biofuels, our retail sites and EV charging network, to marketing and trading electricity generated by gas plants, solar and wind power, we are one of the few countries where every Shell business is represented.

We are working with our customers to deliver the energy the world needs today and building the energy systems of tomorrow, all while creating value for society and shareholders.

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