Lead Quality Assurance Specialist; Aerospace

Overview

As the Lead Quality Assurance Specialist in the Safety and Mission Assurance Directorate, Exploration Ground Systems Division, Quality Assurance Branch at Kennedy Space Center, you will lead, plan, develop, administer, evaluate, and coordinate a comprehensive quality assurance program supporting assigned aerospace programs and projects. In this role, you will also lead a team in identifying, distributing, and balancing workload among employees to ensure efficient and timely mission support.

• Assesses existence, adequacy, compliance, and effectiveness of the support contractor's Quality Management Systems activities.
• Collaborates with quality engineering to establish a feasible quality program and develops assessment processes using tools such as surveillance, sampling, audits, audit checklists, and other methodologies necessary.
• Leads the team in identifying, distributing, and balancing workload among employees; arranges for team member training; monitors and reports on the status and progress of work.
• Evaluates existing Government Quality models for effectiveness and efficiency. Works with quality engineering to modify existing (or develop/implement new) quality models according to risk-based methodologies and program requirements.
• Participates in working groups at the Program, Agency, and other government organizations in the development of aerospace systems, quality assurance guidelines, and Safety and Mission Assurance directives in support of assigned programs and projects.
• Performs Government Mandatory Inspection Points (GMIPs), In-Line Assessments (ILAs), audits, final acceptance of flight hardware, receiving inspections, and review of Acceptance Data Packs.
• Reviews and approves contractors' plans and procedures for compliance with quality assurance requirements, resolves contractors' problems of interpreting and conforming to NASA policies and standards.
• Monitors ongoing operations and assures satisfactory scheduling to support around-the-clock processing of flight hardware. Coordinates with contractors to address technical concerns, nonconformances, and provide process/technical guidance on issues.
• Verifies contractors’ products/services comply with contract requirements, ensuring products are produced per design documentation, drawings, and specifications, while maintaining good working relations with contractor counterparts.

• This position is open to U.S. citizens, nationals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S.
• This position may require a one-year probationary. If selected, the requirement to serve such period will be determined by Title 5 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 11.
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• You must meet qualifications requirements by the closing date of this announcement.
• Position subject to pre-employment background investigation or higher-level clearance. Investigation/Clearance may differ and be required based on the duty location/Directorate/Division/Branch requirements.
• Financial Disclosure, Drug Testing, and/or the Travel Requirements for this position may differ and be required based on the duty location/Directorate/Division/Branch requirements.