Quality Assurance Analyst

What You Will Do

Three positions will be filled at either the Quality Assurance Analyst 2 or the Quality Assurance Analyst 3 level. Additional job responsibilities (outlined below) will be assigned if a candidate is hired at the higher level.

Would you like to contribute to national security in this era of rapidly changing geo‑political landscape? The Design Agency Quality organization at Los Alamos National Laboratory is looking to add Quality Assurance Analysts to join our team and help us meet the surging national demand for nuclear stockpile modernization. This position will perform inventory maintenance, provide quality oversight, track quality performance, and drive issues to resolution.

You will learn job skills and become familiar with Laboratory policies in order to complete assignments. You will also provide other functions in support of the Quality Program for weapon design.

• Participate in the preparation and review of quality management programs and procedures, as assigned.
• Participate in the preparation of technical quality assurance procedures in accordance with approved Laboratory policies.
• Provides quality assurance, compliance, and requirements management and implementation support for weapons programs.
• Maintain administrative requirements database through requirement data entry and mapping.
• Ensure quality assurance results, materials, processes and final products meet quality specific specifications and are completed according to established requirements.
• Maintain and operate systems and provide training for continuous improvement; metrics, assessments, procurement quality; internal and external assessments, surveillance, and audits; lessons learned; risk characterization; issues and corrective actions management for weapons programs.

In addition to what was outlined at the lower level, at this level:

• Develop and implement institutional and/or weapons policies and procedures related to quality, requirements flow down, data gathering, and analysis, cause and corrective action determination and verification, and process improvement activities.
• Lead the development or update of quality management programs and procedures, as assigned.
• Demonstrate responsibility for independent actions, decision‑making and accountability within their areas of responsibility, managing multiple tasks with minimal supervision.
• Lead or participate in internal and external assessments when assigned.
• Follow up on actions taken in response to audit/assessment/surveillance findings to ensure adequacy of corrective actions are taken.
• Establish contacts across directorates within LANL and occasionally external to the Laboratory.
• Provide direction to less experienced personnel within their quality assurance function.
• Ensure quality assurance results, materials, processes and final products meet quality specific specifications and are completed according to established requirements as required by task assignments.

• Demonstrated capability in interpersonal and communication skills as evidenced by successful interaction with various levels of management and stakeholders.
• Proven record of providing customer focused services.
• Proven skills and experience in completing moderately complex assignments.
• Experience and ability to ensure quality assurance requirements are met during the design, procurement, and assembly of nuclear weapons‑related items.
• Awareness of hazardous/nuclear materials safety practices.

• Demonstrated excellence in interpersonal and communication skills as evidenced by successful interaction with various levels of management, state or federal regulators, stakeholders or suppliers.
• Proven record of success leading cross‑organizational teams.
• Advanced ability to interact successfully under pressure.
• Advanced ability to work with minimal direction to accomplish general programmatic objectives.
• Advanced level of analytical ability and innovative thinking.
• Demonstrated ability to accept accountability for safety of self and others.