Joe Lumpkins
La Fayette,IL
Summary
Expert in inspection, testing, sorting, sampling, and weighing with extensive experience in quality control and compliance with industry standards. Strong analytical skills and proficiency in precision equipment for accurate measurement of product specifications. Proven ability to enhance operational efficiency by identifying defects and implementing corrective actions. Skilled in maintaining precise records and reports to support continuous improvement efforts.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
6
6
Certifications
Work History
Certified Welding Inspector
Keystone Energy Group
07.2023 - Current
- Provide regular construction reports and update information to the client construction manager.
- Inspect and observe testing of pipelines and facilities throughout the construction process.
- Provide support to the construction representative for change order and extra work provision negotiations and provide the appropriate supporting documentation.
- Maintain daily construction activity logs to track project activities, materials, record materials onsite and installation dates, and work performed to support progress and change order analysis.
- Provide project documentation that accurately reflects as-built installation.
- Ensures adherence to safety regulation at project work sites, conducts, and attends periodic safety meetings, and acts as adviser on safety matters.
- Inspect and monitor construction contractor's work and prepare daily, weekly, and monthly inspection reports as required. Review contractor reports.
- Monitor the Contractor's receipt inspection of materials arriving on-site.
- Monitor construction progress for compliance with Contract Documents, safety standards and client requirements.
- Enter information into client specific tracking software. (Maximo & I-maps)
Certified Welding Inspector
Applied Consultants Inc
01.2025 - 07.2025
- Provide project documentation that accurately reflects as-built installation.
- Ensure compliance with approved plans and specifications, state, and local laws and regulations, and industry standards for materials and methods.
- Visually inspect every weld, confirm welder ID.
- Evaluate the workmanship of individual welders and notify production supervision when additional training is needed.
- Coordinate with NDE company for X-RAY.
- Maintain log, with Heat number, pipe size and wall thickness, API grade number. Welder stencil, (If X -RAY # is different from weld # confirm identified on weld map)
- BPX
Construction Superintendent
Nexamp
09.2024 - 01.2025
- Oversee and manage all aspects of construction projects from start to finish.
- Supervise subcontractors and construction crews on-site.
- Solve problems and address issues that arise during construction.
- Ensure adherence to all safety regulations and OSHA standards.
- Utilize project management software, such as Microsoft Project and Procore, to track project progress.
- Maintain a high standard of quality and ensure projects are completed on time and within budget.
Chief Inspector
Cleveland Integrity Services
Cleveland, Oklahoma
07.2024 - 09.2024
- Ensured compliance with approved plans, specifications, and relevant regulations for materials and methods.
- Inspected pipelines and facilities during construction to verify adherence to standards.
- Monitored subcontractors and developers throughout testing phases on behalf of the client.
- Provided accurate project documentation reflecting as-built installations.
- Reviewed inspection reports for accuracy and completeness before submission.
- Trained employees in safety processes and procedures to comply with corporate rules.
Site Quality Manager
Bronco Industrial Services
12.2023 - 07.2024
- Developed Quality Control Program awareness among supervisors and team members.
- Managed compliance documentation, regulatory audits, and project inspection reports efficiently.
- Conducted detailed visual inspections of welds in all structural steel components.
- Partnered with engineers and welders to resolve welding-related issues effectively.
- Created non-conformance reports, monitored repair processes, and managed material tagging.
- Executed in-process inspections across diverse fabrication and assembly methods.
- Trained new employees on metrology practices and safety measures.
- Utilized software tools for data analysis and reporting on measurements.
CWI – Welding inspector
3BINSPECTION
06.2023 - 12.2023
- Provide regular construction reports and update information to the client construction manager to ensure effective and timely communication.
- Monitor construction progress for compliance with Contract Documents, safety standards and client requirements.
- Visually inspect every weld, confirm welder ID.
- White Water Matterhorn line
Project manager / Construction Manager Project Lead / Chief Inspector
EN Engineering / Entrust
03.2019 - 01.2023
- Provide regular construction reports and update information to the client construction manager and other agencies to ensure effective and timely communication.
- Inspect and observe testing of pipelines and facilities throughout the construction process by subcontractors and developers, on behalf of the client.
- Ensure compliance with approved plans and specifications, state, and local laws and regulations, and industry standards for materials and methods.
- Provide support to the construction representative for change order and extra work provision negotiations and provide the appropriate supporting documentation.
- Maintain daily construction activity logs to track project activities, materials, schedule impacts, record materials onsite and installation dates, and work performed to support progress and change order analysis.
- Provide project documentation that accurately reflects as-built installation.
- Ensures adherence to safety regulation at project work sites, conducts, and attends periodic safety meetings, and acts as adviser on all safety matters.
- Serves as the construction representative responsible for construction quality assurance and activities to assigned construction projects.
- Inspect and monitor construction contractor's work and prepare daily, weekly, and monthly inspection reports as required. Review contractor reports.
- Review and provide input into field related Submittals, Requests for Information, Plan Clarifications, engineering reports.
- Monitor the Contractor's receipt inspection of materials arriving on-site, monitors off-site production activities and/or any other construction activities in his/her area.
- Monitor construction progress for compliance with Contract Documents, safety standards and client requirements.
- Maintain spreadsheets of quality deficiencies and construction deviations.
CWI - Utility Inspector
Optimal Energy Resources
11.2018 - 03.2019
- Verify that the Contractors have the Clients approved Welding Procedure for the Project and understand the essential variables.
- Coordinate with the contractors setting up testing of welders, or welders that Continuity is expired.
- Review the NDE contractor procedures. Examine the certifications of Team members are current and correct for the NDE method they will be using.
- Visually inspect every weld, confirm welder ID.
- Coordinate with NDE company for X-RAY.
- Maintain log, with Heat number, pipe size and wall thickness, API grade number. Welder stencil, (If X-RAY # is different from weld # confirm identified on weld map).
- Update the weld log, weld #, welder ID, inspector ID, X-Ray numbers, Coating Verification.
- Rejection %.
Corporate Quality Control Manager
Sulzer Tower Field Service California Inc.
12.2017 - 11.2018
- Set up and manage the U-Stamp and R-Stamp program for field projects.
- Develop, promote, maintain, and execute Quality Assurance Systems in aliment with Customer -Specific Requirements, and Business Unit Specific Requirements.
- Manage Cost of Poor-Quality targets and drive improvement strategies for project site, including directly supporting the recreation plans and monitoring actions to closure.
- Mentor Quality Managers for each project to achieve objectives and problem resolutions, Customer Scores, and Corrective Action Reporting. Serve as an advisor to confirm the approval and closure of these items.
- Directly manage all site Quality Operations to include Quality Systems, Quality Inspections and Supplier Quality support.
- Serve as an advisor for the closer of all Corrective Actions. Analyzing customer and regulatory requirements to assess their effect on the internal Quality System. Drive systematic improvement to eliminate repeat issues and improve customer trust.
- Plan and support all internal customers, and agency audits along with the respective Quality Managers and work with the team to close all issues.
- Interface with supplier and customer quality representatives as the lead for escalated issues.
- Plan and assign work to subordinates. Responsible for Quality Assurance Department in terms of costs, methods, and personnel.
- Compile, write and deliver training material on quality standards and activities. Qualified personnel performing special processes.
- Compile and submit reports on quality issues, as required by Executive Management.
- Verify that the quality related site activities are in accordance with the applicable Codes and standards.
- Implement the QA/QC management system at field locations.
- Maintain local audit program (schedule and audit status log, perform or coordinate field audits, maintain records).
- Ensure all quality control documentation is compiled and competed for turnover and Commissioning.
- Facilitates lessons learned compilation.
Quality Control Manager
BMWC Boiler Division
09.2017 - 11.2017
- Project: Indiana power and lights, AES Petersburg unit 4 Boiler Outage. Petersburg IN Duke Energy, Unit 4 fall boiler outage.
Quality Control Manager
Sulzer Tower Field Service Us Inc.
Humble, Texas
08.2017 - 09.2017
- Project: Chevron Turnaround.
Quality Control Manager
Construction Turnaround Services (CTS)
04.2017 - 07.2017
- Projects: PSEG Keys Energy Project, Brandywine MD.
Quality control Supervisor
Graycor Industrial Constructors Inc.
01.2016 - 04.2017
- Mark West Pipe Rack, West Union WV- AEP U1 SCR Project.
- Rockport Indiana.
- Phillips 66 C5/C6 Project, Wood River Illinois.
Quality Control Manager
EMCOR Group Inc.
09.2013 - 01.2016
- Phillips 66, Turnaround, Wilmington California.
- Exxon/mobile, FCCU Project, Torrance California.
- ConocoPhillips, Turnaround, Lysite Wyoming.
- LyondellBasell Industries, Turnaround, Tuscola Illinois.
- Citgo Refinery, FCCU/A Turnaround, Lake Charles Louisiana.
- Coffeyville Resources Refinery, Coker Repair, Coffeyville Kansas.
- Indian Basin Gas Plant (OXY) Turnaround, Carlsbad New Mexico.
- Husky Refinery Turnaround, Lima Ohio.
Education
Occupational Studies - Certified Pipe Welder & Fitter
Tulsa Welding School
Tulsa, OK01.1992
Some College (No Degree) - Machine Drafting And Design
Carl Sandburg College
Galesburg, ILSkills
- Solid communication skills
- Welding documentation
- Visual inspection
- Safety compliance
- Project management
- Quality assurance
- Compliance auditing
- Construction reporting
- Team leadership
- Effective communication
- Attention to detail
- Welding code compliance
- Welding consumables management
- Dimensional inspection
- Team oversight
- Weld testing
- Employee training
- Welding performance monitoring
- Inspection report writing
- Destructive testing methods
- Heat treatment processes
- Weld defect identification
- Welding safety standards
- Non-destructive testing
- Strong organizational skills
- Knowledge of manufacturing standards/regulations
- Microsoft Word
- Excel
- Bluebeam (weld mapping)
- Blueprint interpretation
- Project management skills
- Job status reports
- Employee productivity reports
- Quality control
- Preventive Maintenance
- Welding symbols interpretation
- Weld repair strategies
- Coating inspection
- Quality control analysis
- Corrective action implementation
- Documentation review
- Welder qualification testing
- Quality control procedures
- Welding procedure development
- Defect identification
- Welding maps preparation
- Magnetic particle testing
- Radiographic testing
- Welding codes
- Liquid penetrant testing
- Documentation skills
- Certified Welding Inspector
- Inventory management
- Pipeline inspections
- Welding procedures
- Specifications review
- Fabrications experience
- Welding techniques
- Welding symbols
- Metallurgy fundamentals
- Material identification
- Safety awareness
- Digital multimeters
Roles And Responsibilities
- Develop and mentor a strong quality team that supports a world class quality control program.
- Oversaw the quality assurance / quality control program of contract client.
- Analyze and make independent recommendations regarding solutions to problems with varying complexity in accordance with organization and/or project objectives and guidelines.
- Develop innovative solutions to meet contractors’ and customers’ needs.
- Properly interpret regulations, codes and industry standards such as ASME section I, VIII, IX, & AWS, D1.1, B 31.1, B 31.3, API 1104.
- Review, interpret and implement complex contract documents to standards specifications.
- Proficient with standard computer software (MS Word and Excel) able to write detailed inspection and shutdown reports while maintaining an organized system of files.
- Perform welder verification testing, including verification of welder identification.
- Develop and maintain Electronic Document Logs for Weld Inspection, maps, ISO’S, P&ID’S, NCR, Hydro, as part of contractual completed turnover packages to the clients.
- Develop weld plans per job specific criteria, review weld plan with Supervision. Follow up to ensure we have effectively communicated weld plan specific with the welding operators.
- Set-up and implement Filler metal control program and audit the process.
- Identify the method for welder-to-welder traceability.
- Conduct regular walk downs and inspections of construction projects, audit work in progress or completed.
- Perform visual and dimensional inspections, fit-up inspection, and doc reviews of finished, and jobs in process.
- Initiate NCRs for non-conforming material. Follow-up on disposition of NCR to assure appropriate handling or rework of non-conforming material.
- Set up the NDT program from Subcontractor. Monitor the volumetric test and discuss rejects with the welding operators, retrain, as necessary.
- Monitor and review required testing by third party inspection.
- Record the completion and sign-off of hydrostatic testing.
- Set up the Hydrogen Bake Out & PWHT program, monitor PWHT results for compliance.
- Inspection of tanks, piping, pressure vessels, valves and pumps.
- Verify flanged piping bolt-up, tensioning and verification activities.
- Coordinate with QA/QC assistant to assure that all reports and releases notifications are up to date.
- Surveillance of contracted third-party subs, verification of contractual responsibility.
- Weekly audits of the company Quality control manual, to ensure the health of the program.
Certification
CWI #12100561 American Welding Society
Timeline
Certified Welding Inspector
Applied Consultants Inc
01.2025 - 07.2025
Construction Superintendent
Nexamp
09.2024 - 01.2025
Chief Inspector
Cleveland Integrity Services
07.2024 - 09.2024
Site Quality Manager
Bronco Industrial Services
12.2023 - 07.2024
Certified Welding Inspector
Keystone Energy Group
07.2023 - Current
CWI – Welding inspector
3BINSPECTION
06.2023 - 12.2023
Project manager / Construction Manager Project Lead / Chief Inspector
EN Engineering / Entrust
03.2019 - 01.2023
CWI - Utility Inspector
Optimal Energy Resources
11.2018 - 03.2019
Corporate Quality Control Manager
Sulzer Tower Field Service California Inc.
12.2017 - 11.2018
Quality Control Manager
BMWC Boiler Division
09.2017 - 11.2017
Quality Control Manager
Sulzer Tower Field Service Us Inc.
08.2017 - 09.2017
Quality Control Manager
Construction Turnaround Services (CTS)
04.2017 - 07.2017
Quality control Supervisor
Graycor Industrial Constructors Inc.
01.2016 - 04.2017
Quality Control Manager
EMCOR Group Inc.
09.2013 - 01.2016
Occupational Studies - Certified Pipe Welder & Fitter
Tulsa Welding School
Some College (No Degree) - Machine Drafting And Design
Carl Sandburg College