Cleared Senior​/Principal Quality Assurance Specialist - FENG and Isolator Test and Final Assembly Value Stream, Onsite

Cleared Senior/Principal Quality Assurance Specialist - FENG and Isolator Test and Final Assembly Value Stream, Onsite

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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* These benefits vary by job classification.

What Your Job Will Be Like:

We are seeking a Quality Assurance Specialist to support the FENG and Isolator Test and Final Assembly Value Stream

On any given day, you may be called on to:

Facilitate the FENG and Isolator Test and Final Assembly Value Stream to achieve successful outcomes and to employ work practices that are compliant with Explosives Accreditation requirements operating under a COE. Using Plan-Do-Check-Act and defect prevention principles and methodologies, enables a broad range of continuous performance improvement activities. Uses systems and process methodologies to provide input for optimizing programs, policy, and enterprise functions.

Develops and recommends processes for decision making and program design and execution. Performs analyses, conducts investigations, formulates, and recommends corrective and preventive actions for specific issues, including training management. Develops and monitors performance metrics. Supports organization Quality Management System.

Provides guidance to achieve or retain explosives accreditation.

Determines whole-system quality-related requirements, including program functions, customer needs, supplier input, and system controls.

Establishes, maintains, and improves quality policies, processes, procedures, and tools.

Develops and manages performance metrics and conducts data analysis to evaluate the success of end-to-end processes and quality improvement initiatives. Tracks, trends, monitors, and reports on performance results.

Develops business cases and recommends priorities and actions for improvement.

Assesses processes and systems and conducts risk analysis, root cause analysis, corrective or preventive actions, lessons learned, and benchmarking. Tracks corrective and preventive actions to completion.

Provides written reports on completed assessments.

Assists customers with corporate Quality issue management systems and close out of corrective actions in those systems.

Assists organization with preparing for external audits/assessments.

Executes performance assurance processes in compliance with contractual and regulatory requirements.

Coordinates and communicates feedback to owners of performance assurance policies.

Contributes to strategic planning activities and facilitates management reviews.

Ensures operation and continuous improvement of document control and records management processes.

Due to the nature of work, successful candidate must be able to work onsite.

Salary Range:

$87,400 - $168,800

* Salary range is estimated, and actual salary will be determined after…