Darren Chapman
Middle Sackville,NS
Summary
A passionate and driven quality/construction professional with extensive experience in semiconductor, pharmaceutical, food process, oil and gas, and building services. Highly ethical and conscientious with a focus on ensuring projects are completed safely and compliant with all client specifications and applicable codes and standards. Having worked as a technician and steadily progressing to management I understand the project from all perspectives. A strong believer in continued professional development, I have self-funded myself through all the qualifications and certifications listed.
Overview
31
31
years of professional experience
Work History
QA/QC Principal Quality Engineer
Samsung Electronics
01.2021 - 01.2023
- Create Samsung authorized inspector guideline document
- Created owner’s requirement quality plan
- Conduct source inspection on external critical asset suppliers
- Coordinate third party inspection teams
- Wrote construction specifications based on code
- Review and approve contractor’s quality plan
- Review contractor’s inspection and test plan
- Attend weekly quality meetings
- Audit construction contractor’s quality management system
- Conduct qualification of contractor’s offsite workshops.
QA/QC Lead inspection engineer
TUV Rhineland
01.2017 - 01.2020
- Manage team of 16 QC inspection engineers
- Participate in meeting with the client, designer, and general contractors to present major weekly and monthly findings of non-conformance
- Lead the project team and demonstrate leadership by clarifying and guiding the team to achieve objectives and goals
- Provide review opinions of documentation and risk assessment to the client
- Chair weekly progress meeting with Samsung quality team
- Advise the client on improvements that can be made to the overall project quality and construction methods
- Attend each discipline weekly counterpart meeting and provide support to the inspection engineers
- Advise on correct non-destructive examination requirements and recommended pressure and He leak tests based on international code
- Review project piping construction specifications and ensure they are aligned with ASME requirements
- Assess site construction and ensure it is conforming to project P&ID’s
- Attended and chair weekly counterpart meeting to discuss the current NCRs I have issued
- Wrote detailed report on steam and condensate piping design including: Condensate removal, condensate induced water hammer, correct drip pocket size based on Kg of steam produced, Correct type of steam traps to be used based condensate load
- Review all P&ID and Isometric and advise on construction improvement.
Piping Superintendent
SBM Offshore
01.2014 - 01.2016
- Responsible for piping integration of all top side modules on both CDM and CDS twin FPSO projects
- Manage team of 14 piping supervisors and 4 QC inspectors
- Managed N2/He leak testing of topside piping systems
- Provided written progress reports to management in Monaco head office
- Attended daily progress meeting with management
- Ensure all DCFs (Design change) were implemented including updating of relevant P&ID.
Piping Engineer
Scott Process Technologies
01.2011 - 01.2014
- Tasked with ensuring existing chemical plant was fully complaint to UK HSE requirements including full P&ID package
- Created P&IDs using AUTOCAD for entire existing plant based on site survey including identification of all equipment and instruments, verification of flow direction and identification of all mediums
- Created Instrument and plant item data base and tag numbering system
- Supervise the application of medium identification and flow direction stickers based on the P&ID I have created
- Assisted in design and piping layout of two new tank farms within the project.
Piping Superintendent
Cromex Limited
01.2008 - 01.2011
Piping Supervisor
BCD Engineering
01.2006 - 01.2008
Piping charge hand
UK Gas Technologies
01.2004 - 01.2006
Pipefitter/Welder
Process Systems
01.1992 - 01.2003
Education
Master of Science - Project Management
University of Salford
Machester UK01.2020
Skills
- Microsoft office suite
- Welding inspection
- Piping construction
- AUTOCAD
- International code compliance
- Non-destructive examination
- QA/QC documentation
- Risk-based inspection
- Technical Drawings
- Quality processes
- Non-conforming material reports
- Quality Management System
- Quality Assurance Controls
- Materials review
- Non-conforming materials report
- Inspections
- Technical reporting
- Inspection methods
- WPS/PQR review and development
- Design thinking
- Auditing QA/QC management systems
- Corrective Action Planning
Languages
English
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
QA/QC Principal Quality Engineer
Samsung Electronics
01.2021 - 01.2023
QA/QC Lead inspection engineer
TUV Rhineland
01.2017 - 01.2020
Piping Superintendent
SBM Offshore
01.2014 - 01.2016
Piping Engineer
Scott Process Technologies
01.2011 - 01.2014
Piping Superintendent
Cromex Limited
01.2008 - 01.2011
Piping Supervisor
BCD Engineering
01.2006 - 01.2008
Piping charge hand
UK Gas Technologies
01.2004 - 01.2006
Pipefitter/Welder
Process Systems
01.1992 - 01.2003
Master of Science - Project Management
University of Salford
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