Senior/Principal Product Quality Assurance Technologist - Product Realization, Onsite
Hobbs, Lea County, New Mexico, 88244, USA
Listed on 2026-07-05
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Quality Assurance - QA/QC
Quality Engineering, Production QC/QA, Quality Control - QC Analysts/Managers
About Sandia:
Sandia National Laboratories is the nation’s premier science and engineering lab for national security and technology innovation, with teams of specialists focused on cutting‑edge work in a broad array of areas. Some of the main reasons we love our jobs:
- Challenging work with amazing impact that contributes to security, peace, and freedom worldwide
- Extraordinary co‑workers
- Some of the best tools, equipment, and research facilities in the world
- Career advancement and enrichment opportunities
- Flexible work arrangements for many positions include 9/80 (work 80 hours every two weeks, with every other Friday off) and 4/10 (work 4 ten‑hour days each week) compressed workweeks, part‑time work, and telecommuting (a mix of onsite work and working from home)
- Generous vacation, strong medical and other benefits, competitive 401k, learning opportunities, relocation assistance and amenities aimed at creating a solid work/life balance*
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What Your Job Will Be Like:We are seeking a highly motivated Product Quality Assurance Technologist to join the dynamic product realization teams of group 7520. Our team has a diverse set of skills and background to enable rapid production missions in close collaboration with our customers and partners. You will be responsible for overseeing a variety of work to enable the successful acceptance of Mark Quality diamond‑stamped production hardware.
This will require you to gain a deep understanding of the quality management system and be fully integrated into the production team. Work closely with the engineering team and operational floor to solve issues, document any deviances or non‑compliances, and prepare product acceptance packages.
- Work closely with the 7521 and 7522 product and process engineers to ensure a technical understanding of the processes and expected results, recognizing product requirement deviations, troubleshooting, and determining an effective solution.
- Become familiar with the NNSA, and SNL established quality requirements needed to fulfill your job role and be able to provide guidance on how to apply them
- Review acceptance packages and partner with technologists, and engineers to actively anticipate acceptance issues, resolve them in a timely manner, and recommend and implement corrective actions
- Collaborate with SFO and delegated QARs and auditors when product acceptance questions arise
- Monitor process health and identify ways to increase yields, decrease variability, decrease span time, and mistake proof
- Recommend corrective or preventive actions to assure or improve product quality and may be responsible for their implementation
- Author and maintain written work instructions, operating procedures, or other technical documents to control product definition during the manufacturing process
- Assemble and review product quality data to support product acceptance activities
- Partner with techs and engineers on the team to deliver complex products to the highest quality, safety, and security standards
- Review production and development data across a variety of record‑keeping systems.
- Become trained in Lean Six Sigma (LSS) and participate in or lead continuous improvement activities as assigned in the department
- Gain a deep understanding of production processes, with careful attention paid to the product acceptance processes
- Seek out and pursue opportunities for continuous improvement across all production areas, working closely with the broader team to implement industry standard Lean Six Sigma quality practices.
- Monitor and audit work practices to ensure quality assurance programs and corrective actions are successfully implemented.
Applicants on this requisition may be interviewed by multiple organizations at Sandia National Laboratories.
Due to the nature of work, the successful candidate must be able to work onsite.
Salary Range:$63,800 - $123,400
* Salary range is estimated, and actual salary will be determined after consideration of the selected candidate's experience and…
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