Senior Quality Specialist - ASME SME
About the role
The Senior Quality Specialist, ASME SME is accountable for executing, and sustaining the company’s quality strategy in the nuclear market, ensuring that all manufactured products consistently meet the highest standards of quality, safety, and regulatory compliance. This leadership role is pivotal in supporting audits, product certifications, contract reviews, manufacturing activities, and cultivating a strong quality culture across the organization, with a particular emphasis on the rigorous demands of the nuclear industries.
Key Responsibilities
- Contribute to the definition and implementation of the corporate quality strategy in alignment with business objectives.
- Support the continual evolution and implementation of the ASME quality management system to ensure it remains robust and supports the company’s long-term vision and operational priorities.
- Lead the North American contract review function, to ensure compliance with applicable standards and regulations, including ASME Section III and NQA-1, 10 CFR 50 Appendix B, ISO 9001:2015, CSA N299 and others as required.
- Collaborate closely with quality control, engineering, production, and program management teams to resolve quality-related issues effectively.
- Support supplier qualification and performance evaluation, ensuring consistency of purchased components through vendor certification, clear acceptance criteria, and ongoing product monitoring.
Education
University degree in Mechanical Engineering
Skills and Competencies
- Proven experience in the nuclear sector or other highly regulated industries, with a deep understanding of compliance, safety, and certification requirements.
- ASME Sections III, V, VIII and IX.
- ASME B16.34, B31.1 and B31.3.
- Proven experience in the nuclear sector or other highly regulated industries, with a deep understanding of compliance, safety, and certification requirements.
- Excellent communication skills across all levels of the organization and with external stakeholders, fostering transparency and trust.
- Bilingual (French/English), enabling effective communication in diverse environments and across international teams.
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About Velan Inc.
Velan is one of the world's leading manufacturers of industrial steel valves, recognized as a standard-bearer in quality and innovation. The company was founded by acclaimed inventor and entrepreneur A.K. Velan in 1950, and continues to leverage advanced engineering capabilities and innovation to create hard-working valves that meet critical industrial needs in the areas of power generation, chemical and petrochemical, oil and gas, pulp and paper, mining, cryogenic, and ship-building industries.
Velan's many product lines are grouped into the broad categories of: gate, globe, and check valves; quarter-turn valves; specialty valves; and steam traps. Within these product groups, Velan offers one of the most comprehensive product offerings available from any valve manufacturer, in sizes varying from 1/2" to 60", with pressure ratings from vacuum to over 10,000 psi, temperature ratings of up to 1,500 °F, and availability of many material and design options. All of Velan's valves are designed and manufactured with quality as a priority, and incorporate many unique design features for environmentally friendly performance, simple maintenance, and reliable service.
Velan. Quality that lasts.
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Senior Quality Specialist - ASME SME
About the role
The Senior Quality Specialist, ASME SME is accountable for executing, and sustaining the company’s quality strategy in the nuclear market, ensuring that all manufactured products consistently meet the highest standards of quality, safety, and regulatory compliance. This leadership role is pivotal in supporting audits, product certifications, contract reviews, manufacturing activities, and cultivating a strong quality culture across the organization, with a particular emphasis on the rigorous demands of the nuclear industries.
Key Responsibilities
- Contribute to the definition and implementation of the corporate quality strategy in alignment with business objectives.
- Support the continual evolution and implementation of the ASME quality management system to ensure it remains robust and supports the company’s long-term vision and operational priorities.
- Lead the North American contract review function, to ensure compliance with applicable standards and regulations, including ASME Section III and NQA-1, 10 CFR 50 Appendix B, ISO 9001:2015, CSA N299 and others as required.
- Collaborate closely with quality control, engineering, production, and program management teams to resolve quality-related issues effectively.
- Support supplier qualification and performance evaluation, ensuring consistency of purchased components through vendor certification, clear acceptance criteria, and ongoing product monitoring.
Education
University degree in Mechanical Engineering
Skills and Competencies
- Proven experience in the nuclear sector or other highly regulated industries, with a deep understanding of compliance, safety, and certification requirements.
- ASME Sections III, V, VIII and IX.
- ASME B16.34, B31.1 and B31.3.
- Proven experience in the nuclear sector or other highly regulated industries, with a deep understanding of compliance, safety, and certification requirements.
- Excellent communication skills across all levels of the organization and with external stakeholders, fostering transparency and trust.
- Bilingual (French/English), enabling effective communication in diverse environments and across international teams.
Not the right fit? Search for Quality Specialist jobs in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
About Velan Inc.
Velan is one of the world's leading manufacturers of industrial steel valves, recognized as a standard-bearer in quality and innovation. The company was founded by acclaimed inventor and entrepreneur A.K. Velan in 1950, and continues to leverage advanced engineering capabilities and innovation to create hard-working valves that meet critical industrial needs in the areas of power generation, chemical and petrochemical, oil and gas, pulp and paper, mining, cryogenic, and ship-building industries.
Velan's many product lines are grouped into the broad categories of: gate, globe, and check valves; quarter-turn valves; specialty valves; and steam traps. Within these product groups, Velan offers one of the most comprehensive product offerings available from any valve manufacturer, in sizes varying from 1/2" to 60", with pressure ratings from vacuum to over 10,000 psi, temperature ratings of up to 1,500 °F, and availability of many material and design options. All of Velan's valves are designed and manufactured with quality as a priority, and incorporate many unique design features for environmentally friendly performance, simple maintenance, and reliable service.
Velan. Quality that lasts.