OverviewWe are seeking a motivated Sr. Quality Assurance Engineer to contribute to our mission supporting our work at UCOR in Oak Ridge, TN.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Plan and direct activities to develop, maintain, and advise on the implementation of the Quality Assurance (QA) Program.
- Implement necessary systematic action to assure implementation using a graded approach of the QA Rule (10 CFR 830, Subpart A, Quality Assurance Requirements) and Department of Energy (DOE) Order 414.1D, Quality Assurance, using AMSE NQA-1 2008/2009a as the national consensus nuclear standard and other commercial quality standards in the planning and execution of work.
- Perform QA actions such as causal analysis, corrective actions, etc.
Education and Licensure
Bachelor's degree in quality assurance, quality control management, or engineering discipline such as mechanical, industrial, or manufacturing engineering or other related technical field. Equivalent combination of relevant experience and education can be considered.
Skills, Experience and Qualifications
Required Skills, Experience, and Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in area of specialization or equivalent combination of education and years of experience.
- Prior experience working under NQA-1 guidelines.
- Due to federal contract security requirements, candidates must be able to successfully pass a federal background investigation to secure and maintain DOE Q security clearance. (required)
- Due to federal contract security requirements, this position requires U.S. Citizenship. (required)
- Health & Safety training, medical monitoring, and client-driven drug and background testing. (required)
- Knowledge of the quality assurance principles and their application to engineering, environmental, procurement, construction, testing, operations, or decommissioning.
- Knowledge of regulatory and contractual requirements that impact the QA program.
- Knowledge of the quality control principles.
- Possess strong risk-based decision-making skills.
- Ability to provide oversight of programs, assume leadership responsibilities for team activities and interact and coordinate with multiple organizations, including federal counterparts.
- Effective written, listening, and oral communication skills.
- Demonstrated proficiency with Microsoft Office suite of applications.
- Ability to use inspection planning tools, determine sample size for lots, and pull random samples.
- Knowledge to interpret design documents (e.g., specifications).
- Ability to select the appropriate measuring tools and techniques.
- Understand types of measurement, measurement terminology, and the different types of measurement scales.
Preferred Qualifications and Location Details
- 8+ years of experience in quality assurance program oversight or implementation. A mixture of nuclear and commercial quality assurance experience.
- Lead Auditor Certification
- Position is onsite at UCOR in Oak Ridge, TN.
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