The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory

Quality Analyst

Aerospace & Defense
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in business or relevant field required.
  • 3 years of experience in a quality-focused role.
  • Familiarity with government property lifecycle management.
  • Understanding of risk management processes.
  • Experience in continuous improvement and non-conformance systems.

Responsibilities

  • Analyze data to document processes and identify improvement areas.
  • Manage the problem reporting process to enforce policies and collect metrics.
  • Develop and deliver presentations while updating user guides and training materials.
  • Coordinate and prepare for internal risk reviews, tracking and documenting action items.
  • Participate in quality and property audits to identify and resolve issues.
  • Interface with program managers on contract requirements and track deliverable statuses.

Benefits

  • Work-life balance programs including flexibility and employee clubs.
  • Health and finance workshops to support personal development.
  • Discounts to local museums and cultural activities.
  • Engagement in off-site social events to foster community.
Full Job Description

Job Description Summary:

The Quality Analyst at Draper provides support for the quality control and assurance process and plays a role in maintaining standards, ensuring compliance and supporting quality teams. The incumbent will make independent judgements in planning work details, manage projects, interface with technical and program management staff at all levels in a fast-paced environment while remaining flexible, proactive, resourceful, and efficient. The Quality Analyst may be the sub-task lead of a team executing plans and guiding their teams in addition to performing the following duties/responsibilities.

In this role you will have:
1. Familiarity with the acquisition, tracking, maintenance, utilization, and disposal of government property throughout its lifecycle.
2. Familiarity with the risk management process: identifying, analyzing, and controlling threats.
3. Experience with continuous improvement process for products, services, and processes.
4. Experience with product and process non-conformance systems: identify, document, analyze and correct.
5. Experience with writing documents and creating and giving presentations

Job Description:

Duties and Responsibilities

  • Analyze data, develop and document process. Identify areas for improvement and continuous improvement opportunities.

  • Manage the problem reporting process by establishing reviews, enforcing policy, collecting metrics, actions and reviewing data for trends.

  • Develop and give presentations, as needed. Update user guides, documents and training material

  • Coordinate, schedule and prepare presentations for internal business operations risk reviews. Track and follow up on action items, document new and updated risks.

  • Participate in internal and external quality and/or property audits. Identify, investigate, and resolve issues

  • Interface with program managers and team members on contract requirements, customer deliverables and track deliverable status.

Skills and Abilities

  • Self-starting, organized, proactive and detail-oriented

  • Effective written and oral communication skills.

  • Proficiency with MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

  • Experience with collaborative work.

  • Experience with solving problems and contributing to process improvements.

  • Ability to manage projects, activities that require scheduling, planning and organizing.

Education

  • Bachelors degree in business or relevant degree is required.

Experience

  • 3 years prior experience required in a Quality focused role.

Additional Job Description:

  • This role requiresUS Citizenship and the ability to obtain a DOD security clearance
  • Onsite in Cambridge, MA.

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Job Location - City:

Cambridge

Job Location - State:

Massachusetts

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The US base salary range for this full-time position is

$82,300.00 - $220,000.00

Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Union ranges will be in compliance with the collective bargaining agreements approved rates by location and role. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and does not include bonuses or benefits.

Our work is very important to us, but so is our life outside of work. Draper supports many programs to improve work-life balance including workplace flexibility, employee clubs ranging from photography to yoga, health and finance workshops, off site social events and discounts to local museums and cultural activities. If this specific job opportunity and the chance to work at a nationally renowned RD innovation company appeals to you, apply now www.draper.com/careers.

About The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory

Draper Laboratory is an American non-profit research and development organization, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts; its official name is The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. The laboratory specializes in the design, development, and deployment of advanced technology solutions to problems in national security, space exploration, health care and energy. The laboratory was founded in 1932 by Charles Stark Draper at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop aeronautical instrumentation, and came to be called the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory. During this period the laboratory is best known for developing the Apollo Guidance Computer, the first silicon integrated circuit based computer. It was renamed for its founder in 1970, and separated from MIT in 1973 to become an independent, non-profit organization. The expertise of the laboratory staff includes the areas of guidance, navigation, and control technologies and systems; fault-tolerant computing; advanced algorithms and software systems; modeling and simulation; and microelectromechanical systems and multichip module technology.
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