NDT Project Manager - Permanent - Phoenix National Labs - Tempe, AZ (53578)

Phoenix National Laboratories, LLC (PNL) is a leading provider of critical testing, inspection, certification, and compliance services. The Company serves clients across a diverse set of large and stable end markets including general manufacturing, semi-conductor manufacturing, power generation, aerospace, medical, and defense. PNL was founded in 1994 in Tempe, AZ and is now part of the Applied Technical Services, LLC (ATS) family of companies based in Marietta, GA which employs nearly 2,100 team members in over 95 locations across the United States.

Our purpose is to create a safe and reliable world, and our mission is to deliver assurance through precise technical and professional services.

Summary:  Phoenix National Labs is adding two NDT Project Managers to their team in Tempe, AZ.  This is a full-time permanent position.  

Responsibilities/Duties:

• Communicate with customers to create proposals that include project costs, expected length of project, equipment needed, samples required, and standards to be used.
• Serve as the primary customer contact for answering questions, updating work status, and communicating scheduling information.
• Review and understand local, state, and national code requirements and standards. Be able to determine applicability of codes and standards.
• Maintain expertise with respect to the methods and equipment in use and common in the industry.
• Manage and review projects from the proposal stage through completion.
• Coordinating with technical staff to ensure project requirements are clearly defined, communicated, and met.
• Monitor project schedule, progress, and deadlines and help keep technical staff on schedule and on budget.
• Implement methods to inspect, test, and evaluate products and materials.
• Review laboratory test data. Verify and validate laboratory data as needed.
• Prepare a variety of technical reports and documents using various office software.
• Review reports for compliance with applicable codes and client specifications.
• Review calibration records for compliance with applicable codes and requirements.
• Work collaboratively with other departments on projects as needed.
• Program, review, and maintain test software to meet applicable test standards.
• Review, maintain, and update technical procedures.
• Review, manage, and develop training program for technical staff.
• Mentor the personnel assigned to the group.
• Perform testing inspections in accordance with standards.
• Staff management to include, hiring, training, performance evaluations, timecard review.
• Be thoroughly familiar with the scope and limitations of the methods for which qualified, and exercise assigned responsibility for OJT and guidance of trainees.
• Work collaboratively with laboratory supervisor to maintain equipment calibration and related equipment maintenance.
• Work with business development to pursue new business and project opportunities.

Requirements/Qualifications: The ideal candidate will have a two-year associates degree in nondestructive testing plus five years’ relevant experience or ten plus years relevant experience with NDT training and certifications.

Desired certifications include:

NDT Level II VT, UT, RT, MT, PT, LT or ASNT Level III VT, UT, RT, MT, PT

AWS Certified Welding Inspector

ICC Certifications – Structural Welding, Structural Steel & Bolting, Fireproofing

ACI – Post-Installed Concrete Anchor Inspector

IFC Firestop

API 510, 570, 653
 

Applicants must meet the minimum