Quality Assurance Specialist - Multiple Levels - Department of Energy (DOE)

Job Summary:

Akima Infrastructure Services, LLC (AIS), is actively seeking candidates to support personnel as part of our staff augmentation team supporting the Department of Energy in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Successful candidates will be employees of AIS, a premier government contractor charged with employing highly motivated and well-qualified personnel who can advance customer's core mission. Though employed by AIS, the employee will take day-to-day direction and assignments from customer staff and procedures. Pay, benefits, Human Resources, and Employment Management functions are provided by AIS.

Qualified applicants must be a US citizen, at least 18 years of age, and able to meet pre-employment requirements including any required physicals, drug screen, and/or background investigation to satisfy clearance requirements from the Department of Energy.

Job Responsibilities:

• Possesses and applies a broad knowledge of principles, practices, and procedures to the completion of difficult assignments.

• Completes assignments that are broad in nature, requiring originality and ingenuity.

• Applies advanced Quality Engineering theories, methods, and research techniques in the development, establishment, and maintenance of quality assurance/ control policies, procedures, and methods.

• Confers with superiors on unusual matters.

• Leads project-wide system audits as directed by principal quality assurance engineer or program management.

• Writes quality plans, procedures, and audit checklists.

• Verifies quality standards and test procedures for the design and product evaluation to attain quality economically and efficiently.

• Provides quality assurance support to ensure that products are acquired and installed in accordance with customer and company quality requirements.

• Makes sure sampling plans, quality standards, and quality control instructions are utilized by manufacturing, test and inspection in assessing the quality levels of products and processes.

• Documents evaluation, testing, and correction.

• Provides recommendations concerning the disposition of defective materials and maintains a continuous awareness of quality problems.

• Compiles and writes training material and conducts training sessions on quality control activities.

• May specialize in particular area of quality control engineering, such as design, incoming material, process control, product evaluation, inventory control, product reliability, research and development, and administrative application.

• May provide technical guidance to lower-level engineers, technicians, and inspectors.

Minimum Qualifications:

Level 2:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field or demonstrated equivalent combination of relevant experience and education.

• Experience: 2 years of related experience required. Performs assignments designed to develop professional work knowledge and abilities. Guidance is provided by more experienced Quality Assurance Engineers in the implementation of the quality assurance program on one of the functional groups or on a project.

Level 3:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field or demonstrated equivalent combination of relevant experience and education.

• Experience: 5 years of related experience required. Performs assignments designed to develop professional work knowledge and abilities. Guidance is provided by more experienced Quality Assurance Engineers in the implementation of the quality assurance program on one of the functional groups or on a project.

Level 5:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field or demonstrated equivalent combination of relevant experience and education.

• Experience: 8 years of experience in area of specialization. May hold lead auditor certification or equivalent.

Level 6:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field or demonstrated equivalent combination of relevant experience and education.

• Experience: 12 years of experience in area of specialization. Auditor/lead auditor certification desired