Nuclear Quality, Technical Leader II

EPRI•North Carolina Home Office, NC

3d•$140,000 - $150,000•Onsite

About The Position

A Nuclear Quality Technical Leader bridges technical execution and regulatory compliance, ensuring that quality and procurement activities strictly adhere to ASME NQA-1 and NRC regulatory requirements. The Nuclear Quality Technical Leader provides technical oversight and quality leadership to ensure safety-related items, materials, and services comply with ASME NQA-1 requirements, 10 CFR 50 Appendix B, and 10 CFR Part 21 reporting standards.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in a technical field or equivalent experience required.

Nice To Haves

Has developed relationships with primary advisors to a research area.

Responsibilities

Direct the implementation of ASME NQA-1 (18 Requirements), supporting nuclear sector staff to comply with the Quality Assurance Program.
Lead evaluation processes for potential safety issues, defects, and nonconformances. Manage the technical assessment to determine potential Part 21 applicability.
Serve as the technical authority ensuring project research and development aligns with 10 CFR 50, Appendix B criteria.
Oversee the Commercial Grade Dedication (CGD) process for safety-related applications.
Lead technical evaluations of Corrective Action Reports (CARs) and Nonconformance Reports (NCRs). Perform CAR review and closure, approve dispositions (Use-As-Is, Repair), and ensure preventative actions are appropriate.
Lead and support audits of suppliers. Review and approve vendor quality programs and Certificate of Conformance (CoC) submittals.
Review safety-related procurement requisitions to ensure applicable quality clauses flow-down to subcontractors.
Works independently on technical activities without direct supervision.
Regularly demonstrates responsibility for highly specialized technical objectives or problems where the relationships between cause and effect are difficult to establish and little or no precedence exists, and the use of creative and imaginative thinking is required.
Maintains familiarity with the progress and problems in assigned technical areas.
Provides assistance to the EPRI sales staff in Member Services and EPRI International.
Effectively communicates strategies and results, expressing thoughts clearly and concisely both verbally and in writing, to subject matter experts, program members and advisors through guidelines, reports, meetings, webcasts, workshops and conferences.
Regularly communicates and coordinates work activities across programs.
May provide oversight of a project team to assure technical and financial milestones are met.
Organizes the external and interdepartmental activities ensuring completion of the project/product on schedule and within budget.
Supports the planning and execution of complex project work within the technical department to meet member/client objectives; prepares and presents research reports.
Manages small or medium (less complex) projects including budgets and resources without direct people management responsibilities.
Influences project teams in the engineering aspects of the technical work.
Increased interactions and coordination of EPRI work with national and international technical networks (e.g, manufacturers, consultants, academia and research organizations)
Begins to lead proposal efforts and new promotional work.
Develops research or services opportunities of value to EPRI members that fit EPRI’s mission and capabilities. This will include solving customer problems, producing insights and information vital to the members, and delivering information in a manner that members and customers can and will apply.
Continues to provide guidance and mentorship to junior staff.