Professional IV-Quality Assurance

Posting Title Professional IV-Quality Assurance.

Location CO - Boulder.

Position Type Regular.

Hours Per Week
40.Working at NLRNLR’s 305-acre Flatirons Campus is the nation’s premier wind energy, water power, and grid integration research facility. Nestled south of Boulder, Colorado, and north of NLR’s main South Table Mountain campus, Flatirons Campus sits adjacent to the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge and countless acres of open space and parks with stunning views of the Flatirons rock formations.

Join the National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR), where world-class scientists, engineers, and experts are accelerating energy innovation through breakthrough research and systems integration. From our mission to our collaborative culture, NLR stands out in the research community for its commitment to an affordable and secure energy future. Spanning foundational science to applied systems engineering and analysis, we focus on solving complex challenges to deliver advanced, secure, reliable, and cost-effective energy solutions.

Our work helps strengthen U.S. industries, support job creation, and promote national economic growth.

At NLR, you'll find a mission-driven environment supported by state-of-the-art facilities, multidisciplinary research teams, and strong collaborations with industry, academia, and other national laboratories. We offer robust professional development opportunities, and a competitive benefits package designed to support your career and well-being.

Job Description As a member of the ESHQ Office facilitate and provide QA/QC oversight for field implementation of NLR ’s Construction Quality Management program and other relevant programs and procedures in Site Operations:

Develop a comprehensive working knowledge and understanding of contract documents including plans, specifications, and applicable code(s).Review and provide feedback on project-specific QA/QC plans with scopes of work and work procedures.

Develop engineering procedures, including document control, submissions management, tracking of Request for Information (RFIs), material samples, testing schedules, and open punch list items.

Implement project-specific QA/QC Plan in coordination with project safety plan.

Always ensure strict adherence to ethics and compliance requirements.

Establish and maintain working relationships with Site Operations, architects, consultants, subcontractors, and vendors to ensure that the project-specific QA/QC Plan delivers a fully compliant project.

Understand project execution plans and coordinate Quality Control procedures at appropriate stages of the work and in line with the project schedule.

Continually improve strategies and tools to effectively and efficiently document, track, and record compliance with contract documents.

Execute the project-specific QA/QC Plan in a manner that engages all involved staff, subcontractors, vendors, and consultants.

Facilitate inspections with third-party testing and inspections. Analyze and report the results.

Oversight of the development and tracking of punch lists.

Track removal and replacement of non-compliant materials and/or workmanship. Document compliance after corrective work is completed prior to starting any subsequent work.

Research and apply additional Quality Control and Lean procedures to enhance the quality of project delivery.

Oversight of project close-out and quality reports.

Support assigned organizations i n monitoring, assessing, trending and reporting on management systems data.

Attend Plan of the week meetings and other essential meetings for assigned organizations . P articipate in ESHQ assessments and readiness verifications for new or modified projects to ensure NLR ’s Quality Management program is integrated into those…