Quality Assurance Manager

Work Location: Aiken, SC

Must be a US Citizen

About the Role

Quality Assurance Manager will support a multi-year construction project involving significant civil, mechanical, and electrical construction, including grading, storm drainage, demolition, earthwork, ductbanks, firewater, service water, process piping, electrical systems, and associated site infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Manage implementation and oversight of the project Quality Assurance program in accordance with the Quality Management System (QMS), applicable ASME NQA-1 requirements, DOE Order 414.1D, contract requirements, and project procedures.
• Provide leadership and technical direction to QA personnel supporting construction, corrective action, document control, procurement quality, supplier quality, and other project quality functions.
• Ensure project quality procedures, processes, and controls are effectively implemented and maintained throughout project execution.
• Plan and oversee internal audits, surveillances, assessments, and other QA oversight activities.
• Support client, DOE, and external audits and assessments, including preparation, coordination, response, and resolution of findings.
• Evaluate project activities for compliance with approved procedures, quality requirements, codes, standards, and contractual requirements.
• Oversee the project nonconformance and corrective action processes, including NCRs, Corrective Action Reports (CARs), Conditions Adverse to Quality (CAQs), and Significant Conditions Adverse to Quality (SCAQs).
• Ensure quality issues are properly evaluated, documented, tracked, trended, and resolved in accordance with applicable procedures.
• Review quality trends, recurring conditions, audit findings, NCR/CAR aging, and other quality performance indicators to identify adverse trends and areas requiring management attention.
• Oversee development, review, revision, and implementation of project quality procedures and implementing documents.
• Ensure personnel performing quality-affecting activities meet applicable qualification, certification, training, and indoctrination requirements.
• Provide oversight of document control and quality records processes to ensure controlled documents and records are properly maintained, retrievable, and auditable.
• Provide oversight of procurement and supplier quality activities, including supplier qualification, procurement document review, source surveillance, supplier performance, and receipt inspection interfaces.
• Interface with QC leadership to ensure field inspection and testing activities are effectively implemented within the project QMS.
• Coordinate quality matters with Project Management, Construction, Engineering, Procurement, Document Control, Commissioning, subcontractors, suppliers, client representatives, and other stakeholders.
• Prepare and/or review quality metrics, trend reports, audit results, corrective action status, and other quality information for management review.
• Ensure quality records provide adequate, complete, traceable, and auditable objective evidence of compliance.
• Escalate CAQs, SCAQs, significant quality issues, and adverse trends to appropriate project leadership in accordance with project requirements.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Quality, or a related technical field.
• Minimum 10 years of Quality Assurance, Quality Management, or related quality experience supporting industrial, nuclear, DOE, or other highly regulated projects, including demonstrated quality leadership experience.
• Working knowledge and experience implementing ASME NQA-1 requirements and DOE Order 414.1D.
• Experience implementing and maintaining a formal Quality Assurance Program or Quality Management System.
• Experience with audits, surveillances, assessments, nonconformance, corrective action, and quality records programs.
• Experience interpreting and implementing quality requirements, procedures, codes, standards, and contractual requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

• NQA-1 Auditor or Lead Auditor certification.
• Extensive experience implementing ASME NQA-1-2019 requirements.
• Previous Quality Assurance management experience on a DOE or nuclear construction project.
• Experience managing multidisciplinary QA organizations supporting construction, engineering, procurement, document control, supplier quality, and corrective action programs.
• Experience with CAQ/SCAQ determination, root cause analysis, corrective action development, effectiveness reviews, and quality trending.
• Experience preparing for and supporting DOE, client, regulatory, or third-party audits and assessments.
• Experience with supplier qualification, procurement quality, and supplier oversight.
• Previous Savannah River Site or other DOE site experience.

About the Company

Founded in 2003, Edgewater Technical Associates, LLC (Edgewater) is a New Mexico-based small business headquartered in Los Alamos, NM, with five regional offices across the United States to locally support our growing presence at project sites. Edgewater has a proven track record and is a trusted provider of fixed-price construction projects, engineering, and technical services for the Department of Energy (DOE), National Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), Canadian Commercial Nuclear Industry, and private sector commercial contractors involved in nuclear, high-hazard, or complex operations.

Benefits

• Paid time off.
• Medical, dental, life, vision, and disability insurance.
• Pre- and post-tax 401(k) retirement account with Company matching contributions and 100% vesting for eligible participants beginning DAY 1.