Senior​/Principal Product Quality Assurance Technologist - Product Realization, Onsite

What Your Job Will Be Like

We are seeking a highly motivated Product Quality Assurance Technologist to join the dynamic product realization teams of group 7520. Our team has a diverse set of skills and background to enable rapid production missions in close collaboration with our customers and partners. You will be responsible for overseeing a variety of work to enable the successful acceptance of Mark Quality diamond‑stamped production hardware.

This will require you to gain a deep understanding of the quality management system and be fully integrated into the production team. Work closely with the engineering team and operational floor to solve issues, document any deviances or non‑compliances, and prepare product acceptance packages.

On any given day, you may be called on to:

• Work closely with the 7521 and 7522 product and process engineers to ensure a technical understanding of the processes and expected results, recognizing product requirement deviations, troubleshooting, and determining an effective solution.
• Become familiar with any NNSA, and SNL established quality requirements needed to fulfill your job role and be able to provide guidance on how to apply them.
• Review acceptance packages and partner with technologists, and engineers to actively anticipate acceptance issues, resolve them in a timely manner, and recommend and implement corrective actions.
• Collaborate with SFO and delegated QARs and auditors when product acceptance questions arise.
• Monitor process health and identify ways to increase yields, decrease variability, decrease span time, and mistake proof.
• Recommend corrective or preventive actions to assure or improve product quality and may be responsible for their implementation.
• Author and maintain written work instructions, operating procedures, or other technical documents to control product definition during the manufacturing process.
• Assemble and review product quality data to support product acceptance activities.
• Partner with techs and engineers on the team to deliver complex products to the highest quality, safety, and security standards.
• Review production and development data across a variety of record‑keeping systems.
• Become trained in Lean Six Sigma (LSS) and participate in or lead continuous improvement activities as assigned in the department.
• Gain a deep understanding of production processes, with careful attention paid to the product acceptance processes.
• Seek out and pursue opportunities for continuous improvement across all production areas, working closely with the broader team to implement industry standard Lean Six Sigma quality practices.
• Monitor and audit work practices to ensure quality assurance programs and corrective actions are successfully implemented.

• High school diploma plus 5 years of relevant experience.
• Experience performing document review.
• An active DOE Q clearance, or equivalent is required to start.

• Experience working on the SCN.
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt Certification.
• Proven experience identifying and implementing continuous improvements in a manufacturing environment.
• Experience in a manufacturing environment with the ability to manage multiple competing priorities.
• Experience in quality inspection or assurance roles, including familiarity with reading and interpreting quality criteria.
• Strong attention to detail applied in daily responsibilities.
• Excellent technical communication skills, both verbal and written, using Microsoft Office software.
• Willingness to work in a dynamic, schedule‑driven, high‑rigor production environment.
• Commitment to a culture of safety and security.
• Outstanding teamwork skills with the ability to collaborate and solve problems in a diverse team environment.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a multi‑disciplinary team executing various product realization missions.
• Experience creating detailed work instructions and operating procedures and understanding product definition.

$63,800 - $123,400

* Salary range is estimated, and actual salary will be determined after consideration of the selected candidate’s experience and qualifications, and application of any…