Business Analyst for Weapon Quality Assurance (WQA)

Company Description

Are you interested in joining some of the brightest talent in the world to strengthen the United States’ security? Come join Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) where our employees apply their expertise to create solutions for BIG ideas that make our world a better place.

We are dedicated to fostering a culture that values individuals, talents, partnerships, ideas, experiences, and different perspectives, recognizing their importance to the continued success of the Laboratory’s mission.

Pay Range:

$79,920 - $117,312

$79,920 - $97,848 Annually for the E01.1 level

$95,820 - $117,312 Annually for the E01.2 level

This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting; pay will not be below any applicable local minimum wage. An employee’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, specific competencies, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.

Job Description

We have an opening for a Business Analyst to work in a dynamic and fast-paced environment. You will be responsible for administration of Document Control Systems (DCS), coordination of document development and lifecycle management processes, and supporting the implementation of quality assurance implementing NNSA Weapon Quality Policy. You will monitor document review cycles, record retention policies, safeguard information, and ensure completeness and accuracy of programmatic and quality assurance records and ensure effective tracking, archival and retrieval of documentation and data. This position is in the Defense Technologies Engineering Division (DTED) supporting Weapon Technologies and Engineering  (WTE) Quality Assurance (QA) for nuclear weapons design, production, and surveillance.

This position will be filled at either level depending on your knowledge, skills, and experience as assessed by the hiring team. Additional job responsibilities (outlined below) will be assigned if you are selected at the higher level.

In this role you will

• Provide support of unclassified and classified quality assurance and program-specific technical documents.
• Serve as administrator for Enterprise Lifecycle Management (ELM) (Unclassified and Classified) Configuration Management System Product Folders and Libraries, manage system access, consult, and provide training to end users, promote effective utilization, maintain and oversee filing of electronic documents. 
• Apply related skills, policies, and procedures to develop and implement program document control strategies to solve multi-faceted challenges, support implementation of new initiatives and quality implementing procedures. This includes collaborating and interacting with all levels of department personnel to assess, develop, promote, and maintain electronic department retention processes.
• Assess requirements and make recommendations to develop and implement new content management tools, including document routing workflows, forms, and process improvements.
• Assist in the development of documents, editing and formatting services for program reports, quality implementing procedures, webpages, presentations, data forms, and other programmatic documentation. Ensure clarity of content, consistency of format and accuracy of grammar.
• Assist WQA Manager with periodic review cycle of WQA documentation, as well as coordinating Institutional document stakeholder advisory group (SAG) reviews.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Additional job responsibilities, at the E01.2 level

• Apply related skills, policies, and procedures to develop and implement program document control strategies to solve multi-faceted challenges, support implementation of new initiatives and quality implementing procedures. This includes collaborating and interacting with all levels of department personnel to assess, develop, promote, and maintain electronic department retention processes.
• Assess requirements and participate in defining current process flows and identify and recommend improvements to develop and implement new content management tools, including document routing workflows, forms, and process improvements.
• Serve as a designated lead for a variety of team projects and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Perform data extraction, reporting and analysis to evaluate the health of the WQA program and provide metrics content for use in the annual management review and metrics report.

Qualifications

• Ability to secure and maintain a U.S. DOE Q-level security clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship.
• Associate degree