Quality Assurance Specialist

AtkinsRéalis • Mississauga, ON

10d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Quality Assurance Specialist/Procurement Quality Assurance Representative “PQAR” reports to the Procurement/Project Quality Assurance Manager. He/She is responsible for planning, performing and documenting surveillance activities on a supplier by verifying and witnessing/observing their fabrication, inspection and testing and reviewing supporting documentation and records to ensure that specified requirements are met and maintained. This role also involves leading and conducting supplier audits as assigned by the Procurement QA Manager and monitored by the Project QA Manager.

Requirements

• Graduate from a recognized institute of advanced technology in a field relevant to the position or equivalent formal education and normally has 5-10 years of progressive technological experience.
• Minimum of 5 years practical working experience in a relevant nuclear field.
• Working knowledge of CSA N 285.0, CSA N 299 series and CSA N286-12 and ASME codes.
• Must be familiar with Nuclear projects and engineering/technical terminology.
• Conversant with Nuclear’s corporate objectives, work methods, processes, procedures, and organization.
• Ability to handle several audits and POs concurrently and works well under deadline pressures.
• Advanced computing skills and functionality with standard Microsoft Office programs (e.g., Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Strong oral and written skills to interact with internal staff and external stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

• Innovation is an asset with proactive mindset to aid in improving processes.

Responsibilities

• Review and become familiar with the pertinent technical and design requirements required to perform Quality Surveillance activities, including Technical Specifications, Applicable Codes and Standards, Drawings and related Engineering Documents, and Inspection and Test Plans/ Construction Inspection and Test Plan.
• Prepare and issue the Surveillance Plan (SP) as per approved Manufacturing Inspection and Test Plans (MITP).
• Perform Quality Surveillance on assigned PO as per approved SP.
• Review, survey, witness, and monitor the quality of Sub-Contractor’s work and review Sub-Contractor’s QC inspection results.
• Issue and follow up until closure the Supplier Corrective Action Requests based on the Quality Surveillance findings.
• Liaise with Engineering during the life of the PO as needed on issues requiring technical interpretation/guidance in the performance of QS activities to confirm acceptability of QA requirements.
• Generate and submit for filing all the records related to the quality surveillance activities (Significant correspondence, QS Plans, QS Records, etc.) in MyTrak or to the applicable software use by the project as document control repository system.
• Issue Quality Surveillance Report and Quality Assurance Release.
• Maintain and monitor the validity of qualification of all suppliers with open PO.
• Prepare and issue the supplier Audit Plan.
• Conduct the opening and closing audit meetings as well as daily debriefings.
• Prepare and issue the Audit Report, and populate the audit checklist.
• Raise a Supplier Corrective Action Request SCAR(s) for each audit finding.
• Ensure that the Approved Suppliers List is updated to reflect the audit results, issue the Supplier Audit Qualification/Acceptance Letter to the supplier and inform Procurement.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Employee recognition
• A brilliant range of flexible benefits you can tailor to your health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle needs.
• Diverse opportunities for training and professional development to grow your skills and expertise.
• Hybrid working culture
• Generous time-off policies

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree