Quality Engineer 3 -- Quality Assurance

About the role

Position Overview: Develop, implement and audit Quality Assurance and Quality Control to assure compliance to customer requirements or national standards. Maintain the quality of specific products; control (and be knowledgeable of) procedures, analysis, documents and system requirements for the products. Perform system evaluations to ensure compliance with customer, regulatory or internal specifications. Continually strive for improved quality standards that shall lower total costs of products and processes at NFS. Location: Onsite in Erwin, TN. BWXT Grade Level: 7.1.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate production, laboratory, analytical data, statistical analysis to assure timely release of raw materials, in-process materials, and final product which meets specifications.
• Maintain, coordinate, verify the quality of analytical reports, record retention, product sampling, personnel qualifications non-conformance control, quality trends, etc.
• Review contract specs to ascertain quality requirements; prepare support information for approval submittals to customers; review LOAs, SOPs, shipping documents, and other internal procedures/documents to assure compliance to all quality requirements; prepare, review Certifications of Final Product.
• Prepare, review statistical evaluations, process control charts, and process improvement techniques; make appropriate recommendations to management.
• Plan, perform, and follow-up audits and system evaluations of production, QA, QC, calibration, security, materials control, safety, ALARA, Fitness-for-Duty Program, and vendor QA/QC.
• Supervise, maintain, coordinate the control and calibration of measurements, inspection, and test equipment for the process and laboratory areas.
• Coordinate, maintain off-site analytical services, laboratory qualification, customer cross-checks schedules, nuclear materials vault (quality retention).
• Coordinate (with internal/external organizations) shipping schedules, in-house/off-site analytical services, inventory preparations, and vendor audits.
• Initiate, recommend projects to achieve better quality for less cost.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science OR Bachelor of Arts degree with two additional years of experience in QA/QC.
• Six‑eight years' experience in quality assurance or quality control (8 years without Engineering Degree) is needed to attain adequate knowledge and competence to fulfill the duties of Quality Engineer 3.
• If an individual is an ASQC‑certified quality engineer or certified quality auditor, four years of Quality Engineering experience (six without Engineering Degree) is acceptable.
• All candidates must be U.S. citizens.
• Selected applicants are required to successfully complete a pre‑employment check and drug screening.
• The position may require the ability to obtain and maintain applicable federal eligibility requirements for access to classified/sensitive information, which involves an extensive criminal and financial background investigation, drug test, previous employment, and reference verifications.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package, including health, dental, and retirement plans.