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Job Summary:

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is dedicated to strengthening the United States' security by applying expertise to create innovative solutions. They are seeking a Manufacturing Quality Engineer to support the Advanced Sources and Detectors project by planning, implementing, and troubleshooting assembly and testing processes, while fostering a quality culture among a multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities:

• Independently contribute to the development of assembly processes for complex scientific equipment designed by engineering colleagues.

• Support industry research and design for manufacturability, contributing to prototyping, early fabrication, assembly, and testing of mechanical, electrical, and control systems.

• Provide a vision for delivering a complete product or system, build consensus among stakeholders, and lead implementation.

• Collaborate with MRP specialists to align parts availability and assembly with the project schedule, manage EBoM-to-MBoM creation, make-buy decisions, serialization, work orders, spares planning, and site registry, and hold regular shortage review meetings.

• Serve as a liaison between vendors and relevant LLNL stakeholders to coordinate achievable schedules, develop solutions to manufacturing issues, and ensure high build quality is achieved.

• Partner with subcontractors on prototype assembly to prepare statements of work, specifications, cost estimates, schedules, justifications, and technical documents for each solicitation.

• Provide complex quality-related expertise on design, quality assurance, production, and surveillance functions, and configuration management.

• Write and communicate clear concise requirements using in-depth analysis and/or ingenuity.

• Provide solution-oriented oversight of suppliers’ Quality Assurance programs, while personally assisting suppliers with development and implementation of appropriate/warranted improvements (assist with Corrective Actions).

• Travel to various LLNL labs, assembly areas and suppliers’ facilities and other manufacturing sites to observe, assess, and verify the implementation of and consistent adherence to standard requirements, repeatable fabrication, inspection, assembly, and surveillance processes, determine and provide necessary process improvements, identify and mitigate risks, and ensure progress on assembly of complex scientific equipment.

• Provide regular status updates to stakeholders; recognize when to develop and initiate workarounds to project obstacles.

• Establish and maintain strategic partnerships with quality organizations across the DOE/NNSA enterprise.

• Perform other duties as assigned.

• Support management in setting direction for quality implementation and supporting strategic engagements across the program.

• Provide quality subject matter expertise and advanced support to engineers/scientists in solving highly complex technical problems for various projects.

• Proactively address and influence resolution of emergent and systemic quality issues between LLNL and production agencies.

• Identify, assess, and implement process improvements for achieving increased efficiency and ensuring compliance to quality requirements across the program.

• Analyze, communicate, and resolve impacts from changes to federal requirements, institutional requirements, and production agency processes.

Qualifications:

Required:

• Ability to secure and maintain a U.S. DOE Q-level security clearance which requires U.S. citizenship.

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering or related technical discipline or…