Quality Assurance Specialist

Job ID: 51088731 | Amarillo, TX

About the Role

At Pantex, you won't just find a job—you’ll discover a career of purpose safeguarding national security through work performed nowhere else on Earth. We empower dedicated, innovative individuals to achieve their greatest impact surrounded by exceptional talent and limitless opportunities for professional growth. When you join the mission, you choose a lifetime career where your commitment is genuinely valued and rewarded.

Pantex believes that extraordinary talent thrives when supported by a balanced life. Discover the flexibility that empowers you to excel, coupled with a benefits package designed for your total peace of mind, including comprehensive health coverage, robust retirement planning, and opportunities for continuous learning through education reimbursement.

Responsibilities

• Develops, modifies, applies, and maintains quality evaluation and control systems and protocols for processing materials into partially finished or finished materials product.
• Collaborates with engineering, laboratory, and production functions to ensure quality standards are in place.
• Devises and implements methods and procedures for inspecting, testing, and evaluating the precision and accuracy of products and production equipment.
• Designs and analyzes inspection and testing processes, mechanisms, and equipment; conducts quality assurance tests; and performs statistical analysis to assess, control, and manage risks of product quality and determine responsibility for products or materials that do not meet required standards and specifications.
• Audits quality systems for development acceptance criteria (parameters based on product result).
• May undertake root cause analysis of incidents requiring corrective action.
• Ensures that corrective measures and deviation meet acceptable reliability standards and that documentation is compliant with requirements.
• Provides input to areas of design, incoming material, production control, product evaluation and reliability, inventory control, and/or research and development as they apply to product or process quality.
• Applies lean and six-sigma quality methodologies and utilizes quality tools to help drive continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree with a minimum of 4 years of relevant experience.
• Master's degree with a minimum of 3 years of relevant experience.
• PhD or applicants without a bachelor's degree may be considered based on a combination of at least 12 years of completed education and/or relevant experience.
• Must meet the requirements of Department of Energy (DOE) Order 426.2A (i.e., High School diploma or a DOE O 426.2A alternative). DOE O 426.2A experience requirements can be satisfied following employment. In the interim, newly hired personnel will not be assigned duties that could impact the safety basis of nuclear facilities.
• Requires a Q clearance; the ability to obtain and maintain a Department of Energy Q clearance is required. U.S. citizenship is required for security clearance applicants.
• Position may require entry into Materials Access Areas (MAA) and participation in the Human Reliability Program (HRP). If HRP is required, candidate must complete a counterintelligence-scope polygraph, pursuant to 10 CFR 709. Medical requirements may apply.
• Pantex is a drug-free workplace. Candidates accepting a job offer will be required to pass a pre-placement physical, drug screening, and background investigation. All employees are subject to random selection for drug testing without advance notification.

Preferred Qualifications

• Current or previous certification as a Lead Auditor.
• Knowledge in requirements such as DOE O 414.1D, American Society of Mechanical Engineers Nuclear Quality Assurance (ASME NQA-1), National Nuclear Security Administration Policy (NAP) 401.1A, International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 9001, American Society for Quality (AS/ASQ) 9100X, American National Standards Institute (ANSI)/ISO International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) 17025.
• American Welding Society Certified Welding Inspector Certification.