Quality Engineer

What You Will Do

The Quality Engineer will be part of the Institutional Quality and Performance Assurance-Quality Support Services (IQPA‑QSS) Group and will be deployed functionally to the ASD Scorpius Project. The role involves ensuring quality requirements are incorporated into the organization and maintaining a high standard of quality through nonconformance reporting, corrective action, and audits.

• Review and prepare procurement documentation related to quality assurance, quality engineering, and quality control requirements.
• Participate in the development, implementation, and evaluation of processes, procedures, and applications contributing to the overall objective of sustaining an effective engineering, procurement, and program Quality Management System.
• Serve as the primary Point of Contact in nonconformance reporting and corrective action processes.
• Potentially lead, coordinate, and/or conduct audits and surveillances of quality‑affecting engineering, procurement, construction, and ancillary project work.
• Perform extensive Supplier Quality and Source Verification Activities, including travel to multiple vendors for LANL hold and witness points.

• Advanced knowledge and application of nuclear codes and standards, e.g., 10 CFR 830 Subpart A, DOE Orders 414.1E and 413.3B, ASME NQA‑1‑2008/ASME NQA‑1a‑2009 Addenda, and U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Regulatory Guide Series.
• Advanced experience participating in and supporting quality assessments, surveillances, audits and/or Non‑Conformance disposition and closure.
• Advanced ability to understand and interpret various physical, mechanical, and electrical documents, blueprints, drawings, specifications, and schematics.
• Advanced ability to effectively communicate with all levels of personnel across multiple organizations to solve complex problems.
• Advanced knowledge application and sufficient experience to comprehend specified requirements for welding, Nondestructive Testing, Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerance, and various Mechanical and Material Testing methods and applications.
• Advanced level technical knowledge of the application of engineering, procurement, and construction practices sufficient to comprehend specified requirements in an NQA‑1 environment, including Commercial Grade Dedication and the graded approach.
• Certified Welding Inspector – American Welding Society (AWS‑CWI).
• Current certification or previous certifications in three or more of the following NDE Level II Inspection (RT, UT, MT, PT, VT), Piping or Pressure Vessel Inspection, Mechanical Inspections.

• Expert level knowledge and application of nuclear codes and standards, e.g., 10 CFR 830 Subpart A, DOE Orders 414.1E and 413.3B, ASME NQA‑1‑2008/ASME NQA‑1a‑2009 Addenda, and U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Regulatory Guide Series.
• Expert level experience participating in and supporting quality assessments, surveillances, audits and/or Non‑Conformance disposition and closure.
• Expert ability to understand and interpret various physical, mechanical, and electrical documents, blueprints, drawings, specifications, and schematics.
• Expert ability to effectively communicate with all levels of personnel across multiple organizations to solve complex problems.

Lower Level (Quality Engineer 3):
Bachelor's degree in Engineering, QE, Industrial Systems Engineering or a related field and 8 years of related experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience directly related to the occupation.

Higher Level (Quality Engineer 4):
Bachelor's degree in Engineering, QE, Industrial Systems Engineering or a related field and 12 years of related experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience directly related to the occupation. Advanced relevant degree preferred.

• Familiar with machine processes and standards.
• Familiar with coating standards – SSPC Qualification.
• Familiar with Engineering Specifications.

Sitting, standing, walking, climbing stairs, bending, stooping, crouching, balancing.

Chemical environment: toxic chemicals,…