Quality Assurance Engineer

Overview

Longenecker & Associates (L&A), a Geosyntec Company, is a trusted partner enabling critical missions across the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) complex for more than 30 years. We contribute to DOE’s nuclear security and environmental remediation enterprise by providing the highest-caliber staff and experts. We are seeking a motivated Quality Assurance Engineer to contribute to our mission supporting our work at UCOR in Oak Ridge, TN.

Geosyntec is an innovative, international engineering and consulting firm serving private and public-sector clients to address new ventures and complex problems involving our environment, natural resources, and civil infrastructure. Our engineers, scientists, technical and project employees serve our clients from offices across the world. Ranked by ENR as one of the top environmental engineering design firms, Geosyntec is internationally known for its technical leadership, broad experience, and exceptional client service.

We invest in our people. Each employee is unique, and your career at Geosyntec will be too. We offer competitive pay and benefits, and well-being programs to support you and your family.

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• Plan and direct activities to develop, maintain, and advise on the implementation of the Quality Assurance (QA) Program.
• Implement necessary systematic action to assure implementation using a graded approach of the QA Rule (10 CFR 830, Subpart A, Quality Assurance Requirements) and Department of Energy (DOE) Order 414.1D, Quality Assurance, using AMSE NQA-1 2008/2009a as the national consensus nuclear standard and other commercial quality standards in the planning and execution of work.
• Perform role as a Quality Control Inspector. Quality Control Inspectors are certified in receipt inspection, and other disciplines as needed, to verify that structures, systems, and components conform to predetermined requirements (e.g., codes, standards, specifications, regulatory, and contractual requirements).

Bachelor's degree in business, construction management, technical, engineering or a related area and 5+ years of practical experience or equivalent combination of education and years of experience in lieu.

Required Skills, Experience, and Qualifications

• Due to federal contract security requirements, candidates must be able to successfully pass a federal background investigation to secure and maintain DOE Q security clearance. (required)
• Due to federal contract security requirements, this position requires U.S. Citizenship. (required)
• Health & Safety training, medical monitoring, and client-driven drug and background testing. (required)
• Knowledge of the quality assurance principles and their application to engineering, environmental, procurement, construction, testing, operations, or decommissioning.
• Knowledge of regulatory and contractual requirements that impact the QA program.
• Knowledge of the quality control principles.
• Possess strong risk-based decision-making skills.
• Ability to provide oversight of programs, assume leadership responsibilities for team activities and interact and coordinate with multiple organizations, including federal counterparts.
• Effective written, listening, and oral communication skills.
• Demonstrated proficiency with Microsoft Office suite of applications.
• Ability to use inspection planning tools, determine sample size for lots, and pull random samples.
• Knowledge to interpret design documents (e.g., specifications).
• Ability to select the appropriate measuring tools and techniques.
• Understand types of measurement, measurement terminology, and the different types of measurement scales.

Preferred Qualifications and Location Details

• 8 years of experience in quality assurance program oversight or implementation. A mixture of nuclear and commercial quality assurance experience.
• Position is onsite at UCOR in Oak Ridge, TN.

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