For international employers · Engineering
Falisha Manpower recruits quality professionals from Pakistan for EPC contractors, construction companies, fabricators, inspection agencies and plant owners. A brief might be one welding inspector for a fabrication yard, discipline QC engineers for a construction package, or a full quality team with a QA manager, inspectors, NDT technicians and QC document control. Because we hold OEP Licence No. 4035 from the Bureau of Emigration & Overseas Employment, every stage — sourcing, credential checks, attestation, visas and Protector of Emigrants clearance — is handled within Pakistan’s licensed emigration framework.
On a CV, “QA/QC” can describe a quality manager who writes the project quality plan, a civil engineer who closes inspection requests for concrete pours, a welding inspector who reviews radiographs, or a technician who carries out ultrasonic testing. The discipline, the side of the contract and the personal certification each person holds decide what they are able to inspect and sign. So we start from your inspection and test plans (ITPs) and the hold points the role must cover, and recruit against those rather than the title.
Inspector certifications are personal credentials issued by bodies such as TWI under the CSWIP scheme, the American Welding Society, the American Petroleum Institute and AMPP, and they lapse if they are not maintained. We check each one with the issuer where a verification route exists, confirm degrees and Pakistan Engineering Council registration for engineer roles, and arrange the technical interviews and document-review exercises your quality manager leads.
Roles & specialisations
Matched to your specification and the work itself, not just a job title.
Inspect formwork, reinforcement and embedded items before a pour, follow concrete, soil and asphalt results from the laboratory, and raise and close inspection requests with the consultant on building and infrastructure work.
Control material receipt and traceability, dimensional and fit-up checks, weld maps and NDT status, and the test packs that take each piping system through pressure testing and reinstatement.
Check welding procedures and welder qualifications, monitor parameters and consumables, carry out visual inspection and evaluate NDT results against the code. Usually certified to CSWIP 3.1 or as an AWS CWI; senior inspectors may hold CSWIP 3.2.
Inspect cable installation, terminations and earthing, witness insulation resistance and functional tests, and keep the test records that support energisation and handover.
Check instrument installation and hook-ups, calibration certificates, loop checks and tubing pressure tests, working closely with commissioning teams on control and safety systems.
Verify surface preparation, ambient conditions, dry film thickness and holiday testing on protective coatings for structural steel, pipelines and tanks. AMPP coatings inspector certification, or an older NACE CIP card, is the credential usually requested.
Carry out radiographic, ultrasonic, magnetic particle and penetrant testing, and advanced methods such as phased array or TOFD. They are certified by method and level, either under ISO 9712 or by an employer to a written practice following ASNT SNT-TC-1A.
Witness inspection and testing at manufacturers’ and fabricators’ works — material certificates, dimensions, pressure and performance tests — and release equipment for shipment against the purchase order and ITP.
Own the quality system rather than the inspection: the project quality plan, procedures, internal and supplier audits, corrective-action tracking and quality reporting to the client, often backed by ISO 9001 lead auditor training.
Compile and control inspection records, NCR and inspection-request logs, material certificates and the final handover dossier, so that every inspected item can be traced at turnover.
Before you hire
The distinctions that decide whether a hire works on your project.
Quality assurance builds and audits the system: the quality plan, procedures, supplier approval and audits. Quality control inspects and tests the work against the ITP and specification. Many roles mix the two, but a strong field inspector is not automatically a quality systems manager, and the reverse is equally true. Decide which way the role leans before the search starts.
QA/QC engineers usually hold an engineering degree and manage inspection for a discipline. Inspectors may be engineers or experienced diploma holders whose authority rests on a personal certification such as CSWIP 3.1, AWS CWI or an API inspector certificate. NDT technicians perform the tests. In Pakistan, BE/BSc graduates of PEC-accredited programmes register with the Pakistan Engineering Council, while DAE diploma and B.Tech holders are technicians and technologists — a distinction that matters for destination engineering accreditation.
A civil QC engineer who signs off concrete pours and a piping QC engineer who manages test packs share a job title and little else. Name the discipline, the codes and specifications the person will inspect against, and the hold and witness points in your ITPs, and we look for candidates who have worked to them.
A contractor’s QC engineer raises inspection requests and clears non-conformances; a consultant’s or owner’s inspector witnesses and accepts the work; a third-party inspector follows an inspection agency’s procedures for whoever appointed it. The habits around records and authority differ on each side, so tell us where the role sits.
Under ASNT SNT-TC-1A, NDT personnel are certified by their employer to that employer’s written practice, so a Level II issued by a previous company must be re-established under your own procedure. ISO 9712 certification is issued by an independent certification body, although employers still authorise people for their own work. State which scheme your client accepts.
Your requirement
The more precise the brief, the more precise the shortlist. Anything you are unsure of, we work out with you.
Standards & qualifications
Qualifications, codes and licences candidates may hold or be assessed against — you decide which apply.
Welding inspector certifications issued by TWI Certification under the CSWIP scheme: 3.1 for Welding Inspector and 3.2 for Senior Welding Inspector. TWI offers online verification using the certificate or candidate number with the holder’s date of birth, and publishes a list of banned individuals.
Issued by the American Welding Society and commonly specified where AWS codes govern the work. AWS provides an online lookup that confirms current certification from the certification number and the holder’s surname.
American Petroleum Institute individual certifications for Pressure Vessel Inspectors, Piping Inspectors and Aboveground Storage Tank Inspectors. API publishes free directories of certified individuals, so a candidate’s status can be checked directly.
ISO 9712 covers third-party certification of NDT personnel by method and level. ASNT’s SNT-TC-1A is a recommended practice under which employers certify their own personnel to a written practice; the ASNT NDT Level III is a separate certification issued by ASNT itself.
AMPP runs three levels — Basic Coatings Inspector, Certified Coatings Inspector and Senior Certified Coatings Inspector — and states that the programme will eventually take the place of NACE CIP and SSPC PCI in standards and requirements. Candidates may still present NACE or SSPC credentials.
Engineers in Pakistan register with PEC. Saudi Arabia’s Engineering Professions Practice Law bars anyone from practising engineering without accreditation from the Saudi Council of Engineers, and its implementing regulations set accreditation categories for technicians as well as engineers. These bodies make their own decisions; Falisha verifies documents and coordinates applications.
Assessment
Arranged to your criteria before you interview, so you evaluate ability rather than a CV.
CSWIP, AWS, API and AMPP credentials are checked through each body’s verification route or directory, and the scope, level and expiry recorded — an expired or out-of-scope certificate otherwise tends to surface at client approval. For NDT technicians under SNT-TC-1A, we collect the employer certification records behind each method and level.
For engineer roles we look the degree programme up in PEC’s accreditation records, confirm the engineer’s registration through PEC’s online check, then coordinate HEC attestation, during which the awarding university confirms the degree.
Candidates are given a sample package with problems built in — an ITP missing a hold point, a weld map that disagrees with the NDT log, a coating report with readings out of tolerance — and asked to find them and say what they would do. It shows the eye for detail that acceptance decisions rely on.
Your QA/QC manager interviews shortlisted candidates on discipline scenarios — a rejected radiograph on a tie-in weld, an NCR the subcontractor disputes, a concrete cube result below specification — and on the codes in your brief. We schedule; your panel asks the questions and scores.
Where you specify, NDT technicians test sample pieces containing known flaws, and welding or coating inspectors take measurements and carry out visual inspection, at an inspection or training facility in Pakistan. Your inspector or a third-party agency you appoint can witness the session.
How it works
From your requirement to workers on site.
We agree role type, discipline, contract side, codes, certifications, the documents the role owns, client approval needs and dates, and check whether the visa occupation brings engineering accreditation into scope.
We search our database and quality network by discipline and certification, so a coatings brief is matched with certified coating inspectors rather than general QC profiles.
We confirm certifications, degrees, PEC status and employment history, and flag any candidate whose certificate has lapsed or falls outside your scope before the shortlist reaches you.
Shortlisted candidates complete the inspection-package review and, where specified, a practical NDT or inspection demonstration.
Your quality manager holds the final technical interviews over a video call or on a visit to Pakistan, and can invite the end client’s quality representative where client approval of personnel is needed.
We coordinate HEC and MOFA attestation of degrees, attest certificates and experience letters where the destination asks for them, and assemble the file for any engineering accreditation the destination requires — in Saudi Arabia, the SCE application.
Each hire completes the medical the destination requires while we lodge the work-visa file; emigration clearance with BEOE and the Protector of Emigrants follows once the visa is issued.
Arrivals are timed to fabrication start, first pours or the start of a test-pack campaign, with original certificates in hand for any client approval interview on arrival.
Sourcing
For engineer-level roles, a candidate’s degree programme can be looked up on the Pakistan Engineering Council’s published accreditation lists and their registration confirmed through PEC’s online check, so the engineering qualification behind a QA/QC title is confirmed rather than assumed.
Pakistan’s refineries, fertiliser and power plants, pipe and structural fabrication shops, and its dam, motorway and urban transport projects all run inspection and test regimes under consultant or owner supervision, so many inspectors learn ITP-based inspection and code acceptance criteria before they work abroad.
Inspection is judged on its records. English is the medium of instruction for Pakistani engineering degrees, and domestic projects keep their ITPs, inspection reports and NCRs in English, so candidates are used to writing the documents your client’s quality team will audit — something the package review lets you confirm.
Pay & terms
The employer decides QA/QC pay and records it in the employment contract. Certification moves it as much as the title does: inspectors with current CSWIP, AWS, API or AMPP credentials and NDT technicians certified in advanced methods are scarcer than general QC inspectors, and QA managers with audit experience sit above discipline engineers. Destination, shop or site location, rotation and allowances shape the rest of the package.
Inspector certifications must be renewed or recertified on the issuing body’s cycle, and some clients require them to stay current for the whole contract. Settle before the offer who pays for renewals, any re-examination your client asks for and any destination engineering accreditation, so that cost does not become a reason to withdraw.
Recruitment in Pakistan runs under the emigration rules, and no candidate should be charged unlawful fees. Everything agreed at interview — certification costs, rotation and how overtime is treated — belongs in the contract submitted for Protector of Emigrants clearance.
Compliance & trust
Falisha Manpower recruits under Overseas Employment Promoter Licence No. 4035, issued by the Bureau of Emigration & Overseas Employment (BEOE), Government of Pakistan.
Every selected worker is processed through BEOE and Protector of Emigrants formalities before departure — the legal route for Pakistani workers taking overseas employment.
Workers are not charged unlawful fees and their passports are not retained. Terms are documented in the employment contract before travel.
You set the specification and the acceptance criteria, and you make every final hiring decision — we source, coordinate, document and mobilise.
Read our quality policy, anti-trafficking statement, or report recruitment fraud. Licence status can be checked with the BEOE.
Sectors
Destinations
Subject to active employer demand and each destination’s visa and work-permit requirements.
FAQ
References: TWI / CSWIP: Certificate verification · American Welding Society (AWS): Certification · American Petroleum Institute: Individual Certification Programs · ASNT: Employer-based certification programs (SNT-TC-1A) · AMPP: Coatings Inspector Program · Saudipedia (Saudi Ministry of Media): Engineering Professions Practice Law · Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC)
Last updated 10 November 2026. General guidance for employers; destination rules change, so requirements are confirmed for each recruitment.
Send us the role, numbers, specification, destination and joining date. We will review it, confirm what the assessment must prove, and give you a realistic plan.
