Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

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Project Overview:

Bechtel National, Inc. (BNI), Bechtel’s government services business, is one of the top providers to departments and agencies of the U.S. and British governments. Its successes include many large, first-of-a-kind projects in government site management, environmental restoration, defense, space, energy, and national and homeland security. This position will provide support to the Uranium Processing Facility (UPF) located at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

UPF is a multi-year, multi-billion-dollar project and will be a first-of-its-kind complex for enriched uranium operations in support of Y-12 missions. UPF is one of the Department of Energy’s largest investments in Tennessee since the Manhattan Project and one of the National Nuclear Security Administration’s largest construction projects. When complete, UPF will: replace a 70-year-old facility with modern buildings, reduce operational costs and energy consumption, improve worker safety, and provide enriched uranium capabilities well into the future.

The UPF project works on a 4/10 schedule. Start times are flexible but the standard work week is: Monday - Thursday from 6:00 am to 4:30 pm.

Eligibility for this position requires US citizenship; successful candidate must provide proof of US citizenship in order to obtain badge access to the site. Candidate must complete security questionnaire and successfully clear site access requirements check. All employees are subject and agree to random drug and alcohol testing as a condition of employment.  Must be able to obtain a security clearance, as applicable.

Job Summary:

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

Major 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 
   

Education and Experience Requirements:

• Requires bachelor's degree (or international equivalent) and 8-10  years of relevant experience or 12-14 years of relevant work experience
   

Required Knowledge and Skills:

• 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).   

Total Rewards/Benefits:

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