Eric M. Spencer
Red Oak,IA
Overview
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Certification
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22
years of professional experience
Work History
AWS-CWI/Chief Inspector
Liberty Inspection
09.2025 - Current
- Senior welding inspector and Chief inspector for Tallgrass energy on eastern Nebraska and southern Wyoming sites.
- Supervised inspection personnel to ensure compliance with project specifications during inspections.
- Managed contractor QA/QC processes for weld logs, weld maps, and heat maps to maintain quality standards.
- Test and requalify welders.
- Collected daily inspector reports and compiled chief reports.
- Keep weld log for Tallgrass, look over NDE paperwork, schedule NDE level III auditors.
- Oversee bolt up and torquing and build torque logs.
- Make sure all bolts, gaskets, and torques meet Tallgrass specs.
- Oversaw hydro and pneumatic pressure testing, ensuring accurate documentation submission to auditing company.
Owner/Operator
Palmetto Aerial
03.2018 - Current
- Managed aerial application company with fixed wing aircraft, ensuring timely and effective service delivery.
- Collaborated with clients to schedule and execute chemical applications based on their specific needs.
- Consulted with clients and agronomists to determine chemical selection and application rates.
- Apply herbicides, fungicides, and insecticides.
- Mixed and stored chemicals safely in accordance with regulations.
- Handled billing and maintained accurate records for completed jobs while planning future work.
Construction Manager
EIS Inspection
Wright, Wy
11.2024 - 03.2025
- Managed construction projects for Western Midstream in Wright, Wyoming.
- Oversaw inspections and contractor crews, ensuring compliance on gas gathering projects.
- Conducted bid walks, pre-construction meetings, post-job walk downs, and maintained job books for project tracking.
- Collaborated with engineering on fabrication prints and coordinated with land department on ROW issues.
- Coordinate survey and X-ray crews for ongoing and upcoming projects.
AWS-CWI
QIS Inspection
09.2024 - 11.2024
- Working as a Sr. Welding inspector for Tallgrass Energy.
- Oversaw fabrication in shop, developed as-builts and weld log, and collected hydrotesting data.
- Conducted material verification, monitored dig ups, and coordinated with NDE crews to relay information to project management.
- Executed anomaly project in Wyoming, performed cut outs, and coordinated with x-ray crews for tie ins.
- Conducted welder performance tests to evaluate skills and compliance with standards. in Casper, Wy for many welders and contractors.
AWS-CWI, Chief Inspector
QIS Inspection
03.2021 - 06.2024
- Work on Black Hills Energy TOG in Nebraska on steel and PE projects.
- Supervised contractors to ensure compliance with safety and quality standards in welding, poly fusing, coating, boring, and excavations.
- Perform welder qualifications and turn in documentation to welding department.
- Developed job books and daily reports to ensure accurate project documentation.
- Coordinated digital asbuilt program with Locusview to improve project documentation management.
- Train new inspectors on BHE paperwork and digital asbuilt program.
Owner
Palmetto Ent. Inc.
11.2017 - 02.2021
- Supervised welders and executed anomaly digs and maintenance projects for Phillips 66, cutting out bad sections of pipe, fitting and welding sleeves, and fabricating and installing new valve sets to ensure system integrity.
- Perform welder qualification tests and requals for Tallgrass Energy.
- Executed hydrotests and developed as-built documentation while monitoring material test records to maintain compliance and quality standards.
- Initiated one call notifications to prevent excavation-related damage.
- Submitted bids for small projects and managed invoicing processes, ensuring timely financial transactions and project funding.
Chief Inspector/ AWS-CWI
QIS Inspection
07.2017 - 11.2017
- Led inspection efforts for Enterprise Products projects.
- Conducted welding and coating inspections, creating job books to document compliance and quality standards.
- Excavated existing line and fabricated new components for creek crossings, ensuring compliance with project specifications.
- Relocated sections of existing 6” pipeline to facilitate project requirements.
- Worked with painting crews inside terminals to paint above ground piping.
Chief Inspector/AWS-CWI
Tulsa Inspection Resources
07.2015 - 07.2017
- Inspected welds for top of ground replacement project with Source Gas, ensuring compliance with safety and quality standards.
- Oversaw contractor operations to replace and bury old above-ground pipelines, facilitating project completion within timeline.
- Facilitated in-town meter relocates, managed PE services, and integrated new connections to existing steel main lines.
- Monitored pipe footages during project work, number of welds made, MTRs, and operator qualifications.
- Built job books for projects after completion and turned them into Source Gas.
Chief Inspector/ AWS-CWI
QCS Inspection
01.2015 - 07.2015
- Contributed to design and implementation of oil gathering system for Plains Pipeline.
- Collaborated with contractor to review blueprints for concrete and steel piping, ensuring compliance with project specifications.
- Performed welder requalifications, run firing line and pipe gang inspection, trained new welding inspectors to inspect on firing line, pipe gang, and tie-in crews.
- Gathered welder certifications and compiled documentation on welder and x-ray certifications.
- Oversaw daily reporting process for welding inspectors, verifying accuracy of welder parameters, documentation, and station numbers.
- Monitored foreign line crossings during construction to ensure safety and compliance. and lowering in below foreign lines.
- Met with project manager to look over pipeline route, bore entry and exits, and make sure permits and one calls were in place.
AWS-CWI
QIS Inspection
Altamont, UT
07.2013 - 11.2014
- Worked with Kinder Morgan Midstream in Altamont, UT for gas gathering.
- Oversaw contractors connecting gas, residue, and waterlines to Kinder Morgan main lines, ensuring compliance and safety.
- Managed qualification testing for welders, validating skills and certifications to maintain project standards.
- Oversee right of way clearing, trenching, shade/backfilling, and welding.
- Verified one-calls and other permits pertaining to that job were in place and being followed.
- Oversaw archeological and biological surveys for environmental FERC permit on Kinder Morgan’s UMTP project, facilitating regulatory compliance from Mercer, PA to Nacogdoches, LA.
- Worked with land agents and land owners to do the surveys as well as checked our one calls were current.
- Build job books as project progresses and send to project manager.
Welding Inspector/AWS-CWI
Tulsa Inspection Resources Inc.
07.2012 - 01.2013
- Directed X-ray crew, reviewed film, and oversaw repairs.
- Oversaw welding operations, excavation processes, and backfill activities to ensure compliance with safety and quality standards.
- Tie-in welding inspector on 8” laterals for DCP.
- Oversee coating, prejeeping, and repair of coating if needed.
- Kept track of MTRs on materials on the Chico, TX lateral.
- Coordinated with foreman each morning to plan crew's daily activities.
- Contributed to daily tailgate meetings to enhance team communication and coordination.
- Directed survey team in staking, stationing, and as-built assessments to maintain project accuracy.
Owner/Operator
Wyo Piping LLC
06.2008 - 07.2012
- Completed pipeline and compressor station projects for EnCana Oil & Gas, Devon Energy, Kinder Morgan, and Legacy Land & Exploration, ensuring timely delivery and adherence to project specifications.
- Welded on new construction projects for pipelines and compressor stations across Wyoming and the northeast and south regions, contributing to infrastructure development.
- Welding of pipelines, fabrication of compressor stations, pipeline repair and maintenance.
- Maintained welding certifications in API 1104 and ASME B31.3.
- Collaborated with Superintendents and Inspectors to read blueprints and isometric drawings, creating accurate as-built documentation to support project compliance.
- Attended H2S, trenching, and shoring safety programs.
Welder
Spencer Welding and Machine
05.2004 - 05.2008
- Fabrication of truck beds for Double Jack testing and IPS.
- Fabricated truck beds for oilfield testing trucks, repaired pipe racks and down hole fishing tools, and painted new construction projects, including prepping, mixing primer and paint, and applying products.
- Assisted in construction and fabrication of super heaters, hot oiler trucks, and oilfield equipment, including reading prints and laying out components.
- Fabricated bumpers and headache racks for customer projects.
- Oversaw other welders, addressed concerns, and solved problems to ensure efficient workflow.
- Ensured welders adhered to safety protocols and maintained quality standards in their work.
- Participated in morning meetings where job duties were prioritized and safety was gone over.
- Operation of a skid steer and backhoe, overseen any equipment moving in the yard for safety, welded pipe to code for gas companies such as , KNE, EnCana Oil and Gas and Knight Oil Tools.
- Operation and set up of manual 20x80 lathe, mill and drill.
Education
High School Diploma -
Shoshoni High Scool
Shoshoni, WY05-2008
Business Administration
Central Wyoming College
Riverton, WYSkills
- Welding inspections
- Quality assurance management
- Compliance oversight
- Inspection documentation
- Safety management
- Contractor management
- Welding procedures
Certification
- American Welding Society/CWI #12110661
- CSWIP 3.2# 0000739780
- Safeland trained/10HR. OSHA
- Commercial rated fixed wing pilot
Timeline
AWS-CWI/Chief Inspector
Liberty Inspection
09.2025 - Current
Construction Manager
EIS Inspection
11.2024 - 03.2025
AWS-CWI
QIS Inspection
09.2024 - 11.2024
AWS-CWI, Chief Inspector
QIS Inspection
03.2021 - 06.2024
Owner/Operator
Palmetto Aerial
03.2018 - Current
Owner
Palmetto Ent. Inc.
11.2017 - 02.2021
Chief Inspector/ AWS-CWI
QIS Inspection
07.2017 - 11.2017
Chief Inspector/AWS-CWI
Tulsa Inspection Resources
07.2015 - 07.2017
Chief Inspector/ AWS-CWI
QCS Inspection
01.2015 - 07.2015
AWS-CWI
QIS Inspection
07.2013 - 11.2014
Welding Inspector/AWS-CWI
Tulsa Inspection Resources Inc.
07.2012 - 01.2013
Owner/Operator
Wyo Piping LLC
06.2008 - 07.2012
Welder
Spencer Welding and Machine
05.2004 - 05.2008
High School Diploma -
Shoshoni High Scool
Business Administration
Central Wyoming College