Quality Engineer
About The Position
Leidos is seeking a Quality Engineer to support Gunnery Training Systems (GTS), virtual gunnery simulators that provide initial familiarization, skills progression, and sustainment training for wheeled and tracked vehicle crews. The systems support precision and degraded-mode gunnery simulation and include technology refreshes, concurrency upgrades, production of current systems and new platform devices, RMF recertification, and embedded training. They provide students with experience using platform instrumentation, including sensors and switches, across varied terrain, environmental, and visibility conditions for U.S. Army, Department of Defense, and federal government programs and agencies. The Quality Engineer serves as the GTS program’s QA lead, working with Program Managers to plan and conduct quality surveillance, reviews, audits, and continuous improvement. The role maintains the Quality Assurance Program Plan, analyzes quality and service-performance data, supports process improvements and management reviews, and helps ensure program deliverables and quality objectives are met. The position also supports external audits and certification readiness at multiple sites, including required travel.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree with at least 8 years of experience, or a master’s degree with at least 6 years of prior relevant experience.
- Quality assurance experience in a procurement environment.
- Experience supporting program functions by identifying risks, researching technical issues, and gathering information for PMO-level decision-making and program-level strategic planning.
- Demonstrated subject matter expertise in quality assurance, including support for developing new business operating processes and procedures aligned with emerging trends and industry best practices.
- Demonstrated experience conducting detailed analysis to mitigate risk and resolve operational issues and critical processes.
- Demonstrated experience with reporting regulations and improvement events that enhance operational compliance.
- Experience implementing ISO 9001/AS9100 Quality Management Systems.
- Experience conducting quality audits and preparing for external certification.
- Experience with SharePoint and Microsoft Office products, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio.
- Good verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to multitask and function in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
- U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain a DoD Secret security clearance.
Nice To Haves
- Industry certification.
- Familiarity with procurement or warehousing processes.
Responsibilities
- Work directly with Program Managers to develop strategies, goals, tasks, roles, responsibilities, and information needs for QA surveillance.
- Serve as the GTS program’s QA lead for planning, work product reviews, and quality audits.
- Support additional programs within the Business Area as assigned by the Business Area lead and/or QEC Director.
- Implement and maintain the Quality Assurance Program Plan (QAPP).
- Analyze post-delivery reports, provide feedback on trends, and recommend actions to correct procedural, product, or process deficiencies.
- Assist in establishing and streamlining processes across multiple technical areas.
- Facilitate Lean Six Sigma improvement events addressing complex technical issues that affect multiple areas or disciplines.
- Support development of Power BI dashboards to monitor contractor performance, inventory levels, and compliance with SLA and SOW requirements.
- Analyze survey feedback from military installation points of contact, identifying trends and drivers of contractor satisfaction and dissatisfaction.
- Conduct root cause analysis of service delivery issues and provide data-driven recommendations to improve program performance.
- Provide ad hoc data analysis and reports for program leadership and external stakeholders.
- Identify key performance trends affecting program effectiveness, delivery orders, business operations system shortfalls, and regional service-delivery variations.
- Support integration of Lean improvement solutions to streamline data extraction, transformation, and reporting, reduce manual work, and improve accuracy.
- Support Quality Management Reviews by reporting quality achievements and progress toward quality objectives to higher-level management.
- Update the program’s Tailored Process Baseline (TPB), as required.
- Review and provide input to program plans and other documents to support accurate and timely GTS deliverables.
- Execute quality audits according to the program audit schedule and Leidos policies and direction, and report results to program leadership.
- Generate corrective action requests for audit findings and maintain the Common Audit Database (CAD), including timely updates and closure of findings.
- Support external audits for maintaining the Enterprise AS9100 for GTS at multiple sites, including required travel for on-site readiness, audits, and pre-DCMA audits or inspections.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
