Claude Comeau

Claude brings over 25 years of quality management, welding inspection, and pressure equipment compliance experience spanning a wide range of industrial sectors—including oil and gas, oil sands, petrochemical, power generation, nuclear, offshore, mining, pulp and paper, and shipbuilding. His career has taken him from coast to coast across Canada and into the United States, delivering quality assurance and inspection leadership on capital projects, turnarounds, and maintenance programs at facilities operated by owners such as Suncor, Nexen, CNRL, Syncrude, ConocoPhillips, Irving, and Ontario Power Generation, as well as for engineering and construction firms including Fluor, Jacobs, and Comstock.

What sets Claude apart is his experience across every side of the pressure equipment lifecycle. He has worked as a quality inspector for fabrication shops, as a construction and maintenance quality lead for engineering and construction contractors, as an owner’s representative overseeing contractor compliance, and directly with plant owners to develop and implement integrity management programs for operating facilities. This breadth of perspective—from fabrication through construction, startup, and ongoing operations—gives him a practical understanding of how code requirements, jurisdictional regulations, and real-world field conditions intersect.

As Manager of Technical Solutions at TES Group, Claude built the company’s quality control program from the ground up—securing ASME “A”, “PP”, “S”, and “U” code stamp accreditations, ABSA Certificates of Authorization for the construction, repair, and alteration of pressure equipment, and National Board “NB” and “R” certifications. This regulatory foundation enables TES to deliver pressure vessel, boiler, piping, direct fired heater, and indirect fired heater coil services across multiple ASME and API code jurisdictions.

Claude holds an API 510 Certified Pressure Vessel Inspector designation, API 570 Certified Piping Inspector designation, ABSA In-Service Pressure Vessel Inspector certification, and is a CWB Level II Welding Inspector. He also holds a C.Tech designation from the Society of Certified Engineering Technicians and Technologists of Nova Scotia.

His technical expertise spans the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code (Sections I, IV, VIII-1, and IX), ASME B31.1 Power Piping, B31.3 Process Piping, B31.5 Refrigeration Piping, and B31.9 Building Services Piping, as well as API 510, API 530, API 570, CSA B51 Boiler, Pressure Vessel, and Pressure Piping Code, and CSA W47.1/W59 for structural steel welding. Claude has worked within the regulatory frameworks of ABSA in Alberta, TSASK in Saskatchewan, TSSA in Ontario, the New Brunswick Department of Public Safety’s Technical Inspections Services, the Nova Scotia Department of Labour’s Technical Safety Division, and the National Board of Boiler and Pressure Vessel Inspectors (NBIC)—ensuring compliance with both code requirements and local jurisdictional regulations wherever the work takes him.

Claude also brings direct nuclear sector experience, having been brought in to help bring both the Ontario Power Generation Pickering “A” Return to Service Project and the Bruce Power restart to the finish line—leading inspection teams through final turnover documentation review, system walkdowns, and closeout to meet the rigorous quality requirements of CSA N285.0 and TSSA regulatory oversight.

In the oil sands, Claude was involved across the full project lifecycle at the Opti/Nexen Long Lake SAGD Project—from construction quality assurance and initial installation inspection through plant startup, operations support, and working with the owner to develop and implement their Owner/User Integrity Management Program. He managed inspection teams of up to 125 personnel at peak activity.

Other notable projects include the Irving King of Cats Cogeneration Project in New Brunswick. Earlier in his career, Claude performed quality control at MM Industra (part of American Eco) on the fabrication of HRSG pressure parts and components for Aalborg Industries, supporting the 1,088 MW Guadalupe Power Plant and the 1,000 MW Panda Paris Power Plant in Texas, as well as large-bore offshore piping for the Sable Offshore Energy Project.

Throughout his career, Claude’s responsibilities have encompassed welding procedure specification development and qualification, welder testing, material traceability, NDE and PWHT coordination, vendor surveillance, shop and documentation audits, and final turnover documentation—bridging the gap between code compliance on paper and quality execution in the field.