Some Typical Duties & Responsibilities Include:

The SRTE Quality Engineering Manager provides direction to a team of quality engineers and oversight of the implementation and compliance of quality assurance requirements for a defense programs production agency facility. This function ensures that quality principles from NNSA NAP 401.1A, NQA-1, and DOE O 414.1E are integrated into production agency processes and facilities to promote communication, improvement, resolution, and mitigations to meet defense program mission delivery.
• Provide leadership and direction for institutional and weapon quality engineers and weapon quality program engineers.
• Develop departmental strategies to meet long term company objectives in weapon and institutional quality for an assigned facility/process.
• Ensure departmental training and qualification programs meet NNSA expectations and requirements.
• Coordinate with facility operations and engineering to achieve resolution and prevention of quality issues or nonconformances
• Communicate with federal and contractor customers and partners to promote transparency, improvements, and issue resolution in support of mission delivery
• Partner with other quality organizations in the nuclear security enterprise to improve processes and policies
• Provide timely communication to federal customers at SRS NNSA field office and division level headquarters on key performance elements and processes.
• Serve as a primary point of contact for NSE complex level teams for weapon quality.
• Ensure NNSA delegated authority requirements are met for weapon quality processes and activities.
• Provide oversight to ensure process integrity for acceptance of weapon product on behalf of NNSA.
• Support weapon quality management system (WQMS) development and implementation.
• Possess knowledge and experience with relevant policies/standards and ensure requirements are met for processes and operations. This includes but is not limited to:
• NNSA Weapon Quality Policy, NAP 401.1A
• Defense Programs Business Process System (DPBPS) SD 452.3-1A
• Applicable DOE Orders for nuclear weapon processes, quality assurance (e.g. DOE O 414.1E or current revision) and nuclear facility operations
• ASME Nuclear Quality Assurance (NQA-1) standards

Required Qualifications
• Eight or more years of experience (YOE) as an individual contributor in one or more of the roles managed, OR Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field plus five or more years of experience (YOE) in one or more of the roles managed, OR Master's Degree in a relevant field plus three or more year of experience (YOE) in one or more of the roles managed
• Equivalencies to experience and education requirements will be considered

Note:

Security Clearance Information

SRNS is required by DOE to conduct a pre-employment drug & alcohol test and background review that includes checks of personal references, credit, criminal records, and employment history, and education verifications. Positions with SRNS may require applicants to obtain and maintain a DOE L or Q-level security clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship. Factors such as pre-employment background review results, dual citizenship status, and unpaid and/or unfiled taxes may impact your ability to obtain a security clearance. This list of factors is not exhaustive; pre-employment information and security clearance requests are reviewed on a case-by-case basis.

Discipline Description

Quality Assurance personnel develop policies, procedures, and methods to evaluate and improve the quality of products, materials, components and/or operations. They ensure products, services, or processes meet established quality standards and customer requirements. They develop, assure, and maintain the quality of products and processes, including standard procedures, and quality audits/reviews.

Career Band Description
• Roles in this band provide people management direction to ensure the overall effective functioning of a function, sub-function, department or administrative process by implementing strategies and processes, and by building a high-performing team
• Achieves goals through the work of others
• Management responsibilities include performance appraisals, pay reviews, training and development
• Job focus is on managing others and applying operational or strategic management skills

Career Level Description

Manages professional employees with accountability for the performance and results of their team, and is guided by policies, procedures and departmental plans while receiving guidance from senior leadership.

Job Family Description

Quality roles are dedicated to ensuring that products, processes, and services meet or exceed established quality standards and customer expectations via the development and implementation of quality-related policies and procedures. Professionals in these roles drive continuous improvement, quality assurance, and customer satisfaction within organizations.

Note for Salary

This is the range within which SRNS expects the majority of qualified candidates would enter this role if offered. Actual offers may be more or less than the amounts shown depending on candidate's qualifications, experience, internal equity, and other factors.