Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Bechtel•Oak Ridge, TN

41d•Onsite

About The Position

In this role, you will lead implementation and monitoring of a project quality program and provide technical direction to peers. You will define and implement system tools and procedures, develop metrics and goals, facilitate causal analysis teams, and provide oversight of design validation and final inspection activities. You will ensure quality in high impact activities that are key to project success. #LI-SF1

Requirements

Requires bachelor's degree (or international equivalent) and 8-10 years of relevant experience or 12-14 years of relevant work experience
Demonstrated skills in planning, organization, and schedule compliance.
Understand and has performed audits, surveillances and/or assessments
A high level of personal motivation, high standards, and the ability to work within changing situations to meet short deadlines and multitask.
Knowledge of regulatory requirements and functions that impact the QA program.
NQA-1 Lead Auditor certification (past or present).

Responsibilities

Coordinates targeted independent assessments to enable the timely mitigation of technical and project management risks
Identifies risk by providing independent technical analysis, guidance, and recommendations to GBU/project leadership
Applies quality engineering principles to design reviews, analyses, quality program plans, and other documentation
Evaluates the effectiveness of corrective actions and process improvement activities
Provides oversight of design verification/validation, in-process inspection, and final inspection activities
Defines and implements quality management system tools and procedures to support work processes
Develops and maintains quality metrics/goals for the organization and provides performance feedback
Learns to use intermediate to complex causal analysis tools and leads apparent cause evaluations and root cause analysis to assist in the resolution of issues
Leads in monitoring the implementation of the project quality program/plan such as People Based Quality (PBQ), Lessons Learned, Close Loop Corrective Actions, Assessments and Continuous Improvement
Leads in quality audit activities covered by corporate/project quality program/plan including, pre-award assessments of potential suppliers and subcontractors as a prospective lead auditor or a qualified lead auditor