Quality Assurance Analyst

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The Design Agency Quality organization at Los Alamos National Laboratory is looking to add Quality Assurance Analysts to support nuclear stockpile modernization. This position will perform inventory maintenance, provide quality oversight, track quality performance, and drive issues to resolution.

• 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.
• Provide 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.
• 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.

Minimum

Job Requirements:

• 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.

Additional Job Requirements for Quality Assurance Analyst 3:

• 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.

Education/Experience for QAA-2: Position requires a Bachelor's Degree and 5 years of related experience; or, an equivalent combination of education and experience directly related to the occupation.

Education/Experience for QAA-3: Position requires a Bachelor's Degree and 8 years of related experience; or, an equivalent combination of education and experience directly related to the occupation. At this level, post graduate course work may be desirable.

Desired

Qualifications:

• Knowledge of and experience with quality assurance regulatory/contractual/technical documents (e.g., Department of Energy orders, DOE Order 414.1, 10
  
  CFR
  830, NQA-1, DOE/NNSA weapons quality policy (NAP
  401.1A), nuclear weapons complex technical business practices, the NNSA quality assurance procedure and contractual requirements relevant to quality assurance activities).
• Basic knowledge of weapons systems, manufacturing, production, and design operations and practices.
• Working knowledge of requirement databases (DOORS, etc.)
• Experience leading quality audits.
• Experience in training system administration and coordination.
• Experience in inventory management: inventory accounting, inventory auditing, cycle counting, etc. (cyber-security focused preferred)
• Skilled in development of tools for quality assurance program development, technical assessments, and corrective action plan development and review, and authoritative reporting to LANL organizations, DOE/NNSA, and contractor organizations.

The work location for this position is onsite and located in Los Alamos, NM. All work locations are at the discretion of management.

• PPO or High-Deductible medical insurance with the…