Company Overview: Flowserve is a global manufacturer of pumps, valves, seals, and aftermarket services, delivering comprehensive flow control solutions that support essential industries such as energy, clean water, and pharmaceuticals. If you're looking for a culture built on ingenuity, innovation, and excellence, Flowserve offers the opportunity to put your experience in motion. Whether you're an individual contributor or a people leader, you'll find meaningful opportunities for skilled growth, competitive rewards, and a workplace grounded in our core values: People, Safety, Integrity, Ownership and Ingenuity. At Flowserve, we're inspired by what we can achieve together-creating extraordinary flow control solutions that strengthen today's world while building tomorrow. **Quality Engineer - TPI Planning and Painting** **Department:** Quality **Role Summary** The Quality Engineer - **TPI Planning and Painting** is responsible for leading quality assurance and quality control activities related to **t** **hird-party inspection planning, inspection coordination, inspection readiness, and release management** , as well as surface preparation, industrial painting, internal lining, external coating, preservation, and final acceptance of valves, actuators, and accessories. The role provides dedicated painting SME support during the order/offering stage by reviewing customer specifications, responding to technical queries, and ensuring inspection capacity for parallel and unplanned activities. **Key Responsibilities** + Lead preparation, review, implementation, and maintenance of painting procedures, ITPs, work instructions, inspection checklists, QA dossiers, TQs, customer comments, and project quality records. + **Review customer purchase orders, specifications, ITPs, QAPs, and documentation requirements to identify TPI hold points, witness points, notification requirements, acceptance criteria, and painting/coating requirements.** + **Develop and maintain project-specific TPI plans, inspection notification schedules, inspection matrices, and release plans from order kick-off through dispatch.** + **Coordinate inspection offerings, customer photo-submission requirements, internal pre-inspection checks,



inspector availability, inspection notifications, rescheduling, and release activities with customers, TPIs, notified bodies, and internal functions.** + **Plan and manage inspection resources to support daily inspections, parallel inspections, unplanned inspection requests, and final-delivery inspection peaks; ensure adequate effective inspector hours.** + **Coordinate and manage multiple inspectors and agencies simultaneously, including customer inspectors, BV, TÜV, LR, notified bodies, and pre-dispatch inspection representatives.** + **Conduct pre-inspection readiness reviews to confirm product completion, document availability, calibrated equipment, material traceability, test records, customer photographs, and compliance with inspection prerequisites.** + **Track TPI activities for material receipt, machining, assembly, welding/NDE where applicable, pressure testing, functional testing, painting, preservation, final inspection, packing, and dispatch.** + **Manage TPI observations, punch points, NCRs, concessions, re-inspections, and closure actions to ensure timely product release and delivery compliance.** + **Maintain a live TPI status tracker covering planned inspections, notification dates, outcomes, open actions, resource loading, release status, and delivery risks.** + Provide dedicated technical review of customer painting specifications, including Saudi Aramco and ADNOC requirements, and recommend suitable coating systems to Applications, Engineering, Production, and Quality teams. + Ensure stage-wise inspection of incoming coating materials, blasting/surface preparation, masking, environmental conditions, paint application, curing, DFT, holiday testing, adhesion testing, touch-up, preservation, and final inspection. + Verify protection of critical valve areas including flange faces, RTJ grooves,



stems, threads, sealing surfaces, instrument ports, grease nipples, actuator interfaces, and machined surfaces. + Monitor paint-material traceability, shelf life, batch certificates, mixing ratio, induction time, pot life, recoat interval, blasting media, environmental records, and calibration status of inspection equipment. + Ensure proper storage, handling, shelf-life control, and preservation of paints, thinners, abrasives, and other coating consumables. + Lead painting-related NCR, CAPA, customer complaint, defect investigation, root-cause analysis, repair approval, and corrective-action effectiveness verification. + Coordinate with paint manufacturers, Quality, Engineering, Production, Supply Chain, and external inspectors to resolve coating issues and maintain delivery commitments. + Train inspectors, painters, and production personnel on coating procedures, inspection requirements, defect prevention, safety, and documentation discipline. + Ensure compliance with ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001, API Spec Q1, customer requirements, and company HSE procedures. **Qualification** + Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) preferably in Mechanical engineering. + Should have worked for minimum of **5+ years** in relevant **QA and TPI** **Req ID** : R-21961 **Job Family Group** : Quality **Job Family** : QA Quality Assurance EOE including Disability/Protected Veterans. Flowserve will also not discriminate against an applicant or employee for inquiring about, discussing or disclosing their pay or, in certain circumstances, the pay of their co-workers. Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access flowservecareers.com as result of your disability. You can request a reasonable accommodation by sending an email to [email protected]. In order to quickly respond to your request, please use the words "Accommodation Request" as your subject line of your email. For more information, read the Accessibility Process.

📌 Quality Assurance Engineer (Tamil Nadu)
🏢 Flowserve Corporation
📍 Tamil Nadu