Quality Assurance Engineer Associate II / Quality Assurance Engineer I

Essential Functions And Job Responsibilities

• Provides quality assurance engineering and quality control services in support of HLMI activities.
• Implements the HLMI quality assurance program for a category 3 nuclear facility, based upon NQA-1-2008 with the NQA-1A-2009 addenda, including design control, procurement support, inspections, identification or processing of non-conforming items, corrective actions, audits, and other elements.
• Serves as a subject matter expert on quality functions in support of facilities engineering.
• Completes assignments that are broad in nature, requiring originality and ingenuity.
• Applies advanced Quality Engineering theories, methods, and research techniques in the development, establishment, and maintenance of quality assurance policies, procedures, and methods.
• Demonstrates understanding of the application of Documented Safety Analysis (DSA) and Technical Safety Requirements (TSR) and can review and approve safety basis documents.
• Confers with superiors on unusual matters.
• Learns and leads project-wide system audits as directed by principal quality assurance engineer or program management.
• Writes quality plans, procedures, and audit checklists.
• Verifies quality standards and test procedures for design and process evaluation to attain quality economically and efficiently.
• Provides quality assurance support to ensure that products are acquired and installed in accordance with customer and company quality requirements.
• Ensures sampling plans, quality standards, and quality instructions are utilized in assessing the quality levels of products and processes.
• Documents evaluation, testing, and correction.
• Provides recommendations concerning the disposition of defective materials and maintains a continuous awareness of quality problems.
• Compiles and writes training material and conducts training sessions on quality activities.
• May specialize in particular areas of quality engineering, such as design, incoming material, process control, supplier evaluation, inventory control, reliability, research and development, software quality, laboratory quality, or administrative application.
• May provide technical guidance to lower-level engineers, technicians, and inspectors.
• Performs quality assurance inspections.

Minimum Requirements

• Grade 16: Bachelor's degree (BA/BS) in Engineering, Science or related field and 2 years related experience, or equivalent combination of education and/or experience.
• Due to the nature of the government contract requirements, US citizenship is required.

Desired Qualifications

• Grade 18: Bachelor's degree (BA/BS) in Engineering, Science or related field and 7 years related experience, or equivalent combination of education and/or experience.
• Strong written and interpersonal communication skills.
• Must be able to communicate with peers and management clearly and concisely.
• Certified Quality Engineer.