Quality Assurance Specialist

About the role

The Quality Assurance Specialist serves as a quality inspector and documentation specialist for shipbuilding and ship repair projects on U.S. Navy vessels. This role ensures that welding, fabrication, and repair work is performed correctly and fully documented in accordance with Navy standards and contract requirements, with a strong focus on compliance, inspections, and meticulous record keeping.

Responsibilities

• Review weld records, inspection reports, and all quality assurance documentation to verify accuracy and completeness.
• Audit welding, fabrication, and repair work on Navy ships to confirm compliance with applicable standards, specifications, and contract requirements.
• Verify that shipyard personnel followed approved Navy procedures and process control requirements during fabrication and repair activities.
• Check that materials, repairs, and structural work meet specified technical requirements, including applicable NAVSEA and MIL-STD standards.
• Read and interpret drawings, technical documents, specifications, and work items to ensure completed work matches all stated requirements.
• Identify missing paperwork, documentation errors, and potential compliance issues within QA records and work packages.
• Prepare, review, maintain, and close out structural QA documentation in accordance with NAVSEA, MIL-STD, contract, and work-item requirements.
• Review work packages, weld and inspection records, material documentation, and related QA records for completeness and compliance.
• Highlight documentation or compliance deficiencies and work with relevant teams to resolve issues and bring records into full compliance.
• Help drive the closeout of quality records so that completed work can be approved by the Navy in a timely and accurate manner.
• Manage documentation and record control processes to ensure quality assurance records are organized, traceable, and up to date.
• Apply strong attention to detail to detect errors, inconsistencies, and nonconformities in technical documents and QA paperwork.
• Prioritize multiple urgent QA tasks in a fast-paced environment while maintaining a high standard of accuracy and adherence to procedures.
• Collaborate with production and inspection personnel to align quality assurance documentation with actual work performed on the ships.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with quality assurance for U.S. Navy ship repair, alteration, fabrication, or structural repair work.
• Hands-on fabrication and welding quality assurance experience, including inspection of ship structures and related components.
• Strong working knowledge of NAVSEA Standard Items (009-series), including 009-04 (Quality Management System), 009-09 (Process Control Procedures), and 009-12 (Weld, Fabricate, and Inspect), or corresponding requirements in applicable contract-year Standard Items.
• Thorough working knowledge of MIL-STD-1689, covering fabrication, welding, and inspection of ship structure.
• Proven ability to prepare, review, maintain, and close out structural QA documentation in line with NAVSEA, MIL-STD, contract, and work-item requirements.
• Experience reviewing work packages, weld and inspection records, material documentation, and other QA records for completeness and compliance.
• Ability to interpret drawings, specifications, work items, and technical requirements and to identify documentation or compliance deficiencies.
• Proficiency in reviewing technical drawings and specifications for shipbuilding and ship repair projects.
• Strong documentation and record management skills, including document control for QA records.
• High attention to detail and the ability to identify compliance issues, errors, and inconsistencies in technical and QA documentation.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel for tracking, analyzing, and maintaining QA documentation and records.
• Capability to work effectively in