Principal Quality Assurance / Control Engineer

Responsibilities

• Define the scope of technical and quality engineering programs and develop effective solutions to challenges involving unique or complex problems.
• Meet company and industry requirements and apply site systems to achieve quality, cost-effective, and timely results.
• Provide quality guidance to less senior professionals on related tasks.
• Apply technical and quality engineering experience within the field of specialization to resolve complex problems.
• Incorporate advanced technical and quality engineering practices, complicated technical requirements, special materials or processes, and complex coordination or oversight requirements into problem solving and program planning.
• Provide leadership in determining solutions to complex problems and serve as a technical and quality engineering subject matter expert.
• Provide direction across department lines on programs seeking new approaches to problems and new applications of existing engineering and quality assurance principles.
• Evaluate programs through surveillances, monitoring, assessments, and reviews.
• Prepare reports and recommendations based on evaluations and identify improvements where established technology, methodology, or procedures are inadequate.
• Develop Quality Assurance programs and procedures and ensure effective execution of technical and quality assurance requirements within the assigned facility or program area.
• Ensure compliance with approved schedules and that personnel under technical guidance are appropriately trained and effectively utilized.
• Prepare plans, schedules, budgets, and personnel requirements for technical and quality engineering tasks.
• Monitor progress, expenditures, and quality of completed work to ensure technical and quality requirements are met.
• Serve on a Facility Review Board, providing QA expertise in support of facility startup and/or operations.
• Support facility and project needs by conducting procurement, procedure, and work package reviews.
• Communicate objectives and results to customers, colleagues, management, and DOE-SR personnel.
• Communicate with DOE-SR personnel regarding QA Program and corrective action status.
• Serve as a QA expert in evaluating the QA Programs of major program participants, including subcontractors and suppliers.
• Recommend corrective actions, redirect efforts as appropriate, and present findings to program or facility management and Site QA.
• Perform other duties as assigned by management.

Requirements

Candidate must meet at least one of the following: Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline with 8-10 years of Quality Assurance, Quality Control, or Engineering experience in Operations, Maintenance, Construction, or Industrial Manufacturing; OR Associate degree with 10-12 years of practical Quality Assurance, Quality Control, or Engineering experience in Operations, Maintenance, Construction, or Industrial Manufacturing; OR High School Diploma with at least 16 years of multi-disciplined professional Quality Assurance or engineering-related experience with increasing levels of responsibility in an operations, maintenance, construction, or manufacturing environment.

• Practical experience in quality control, work control, materials management, civil/structural, mechanical, maintenance, construction, or related areas.
• Previous Mechanical and Welding inspection or surveillance experience.
• Experience supporting Quality Assurance and/or Quality Control activities within operations, maintenance, construction, industrial manufacturing, or a related environment.
• Ability to perform surveillance, monitoring, assessments, and reviews of quality programs and activities.
• Ability to support procurement, procedure, and work package reviews.
• Well-developed organizational and supervisory skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to perform weekly field walkdowns of the job site for engineering work being performed.
• Ability to work in active construction environments, including walking distances greater than one-half mile and climbing ladders to access remote areas