Senior QA Engineer - NQA-1 Program Development

About the role

The QA Engineer’s first assignment is to build out TNC’s NQA-1 quality program — writing the implementing procedures that every department, from Engineering and Procurement to Construction and Licensing, will work under. The engineer partners with each department’s subject‑matter experts to draft these procedures, carries them through cross‑functional review, and drives them to approval and issue on schedule. As the procedure set matures and field work begins, the role shifts to core quality engineering: reviewing inspection and test procedures, setting acceptance criteria from design requirements, and placing witness and hold points in inspection and test plans. The position reports to the Senior Manager of Quality, carries the independence the work demands — including stop‑work authority and direct access to the CNO — and offers a mid‑career engineer the chance to help write the quality program a fleet‑scale nuclear company will run on.

Responsibilities

• Generate the NQA-1 program cross‑functionally — author and develop Tier‑3 implementing procedures with every TNC department (Procurement & Supply Chain, PMO, Engineering, Quality, Regulatory Affairs, Construction Management, Nuclear Deployment, Testing & Start‑Up, Training, and the corporate functions), translating each organization’s function scope into issued procedures through SME input, cross‑functional review, and approval.
• Author or provide SME input to procedures, records, and technical documents in the assigned discipline.
• Review inspection and test procedures and acceptance criteria for nuclear systems and components; verify design outputs meet specified requirements.
• Identify inspection requirements and the applicable codes and standards, with references; extract acceptance criteria from design with quantitative limits, specific values, and tolerances.
• Set witness and hold points in inspection and test plans.
• Support the QAPD and parent‑suite artifacts maintained audit‑ready, and the phased QA plans for Services, BOO project development, and JV support.
• Identify and report conditions adverse to quality promptly through the CAP; feed procedure‑production status and quality metrics into the QA metrics pack and the CNO performance‑indicator set.
• Maintain personal qualifications, training, and certifications current.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline, or 10+ years field experience in the discipline.
• 3+ years working under ASME NQA‑1 and/or 10 CFR 50 Appendix B programs, with demonstrated procedure development — has authored implementing procedures that survived review and implementation.
• Proficient in the applicable codes and standards for the assigned scope (e.g., ASME NQA‑1; ASME Section III/V/IX, ACI 318, AISC 360, IEEE/ISA series as applicable).
• Strong technical writing and cross‑functional coordination — can pull SME input from any department and drive a document through a multi‑reviewer approval chain on schedule.
• Ability to qualify to governing TNC procedures.
• Note: NQA‑1 Lead Auditor certification is not required — audit execution is provided through a contracted, qualified audit service.
• Discipline depth (civil, mechanical, electrical, or NDE) shapes assigned scope as the role transitions to inspection and test