Quality Representative

Requisition Id 13951 

 

Overview:  

The Quality Assurance Division (QAD) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is seeking qualified candidates for the role of Quality Representative supporting quality integration into the procurement process. This position will serve a wide range of nuclear and non-nuclear organizations, projects, and programs across the entire laboratory. The Procurement Quality Representative will be responsible for delivering support services by actively facilitating the implementation of laboratory policies, procedures, quality tools, and methodologies. While this role will aim to ensure compliance with procurement requirements and achieve reliable effective outcomes that align with the overall mission of ORNL, this role will also champion continuous improvement to improve consistency and efficiency of the quality-procurment interfaces.

 

The ideal candidate will be well-versed in regulatory requirements related to quality, nuclear, radiological, and safety standards, including knowledge of reportability criteria. Additionally, experience in supporting procurements from a quality perspective is essential. This position resides in the Quality Assurance Division in the ESH&Q Directorate, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).  

 

As a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science national laboratory, ORNL has an extraordinary 80-year history of solving the nation’s biggest problems. We have a dedicated and creative staff of over 6,000 people! Our vision for diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) is to cultivate an environment and practices that foster diversity in ideas and in the people across the organization, as well as to ensure ORNL is recognized as a workplace of choice. These elements are critical for enabling the execution of ORNL’s broader mission to accelerate scientific discoveries and their translation into energy, environment, and security solutions for the nation.

 

Major Duties/Responsibilities: 

• Work independently to provide quality assurance support for procuremnts in an Laboratory research and operations environment.

• Identify and understand customer needs while influencing the prioritization and development of quality initiatives.

• Provide guidance and support development of project plans, checklists, procedures, and guidelines.

• Provides leadership and support in appropriately applying quality standards and clauses.

• Using the graded approach as described in the ORNL QA Program Description, DOE Order 414.1D, and quality standards including ASME NQA-1-2008/9a and ISO 9001:2015, reviews project, program, and line management needs and provide quality support with a graded approach based on the risk associated with the wide range of technical activities and the rigor required by the needs of myriad of sponsors.

• Assists in the management determination of need for development of technical guidelines, procedures, related work controlling documents and develops project quality plans, checklists, procedures, and guidance supporting successful quality program implementation.

• Provides incisive QA training based on organization, program, project, and related line customer needs.

• Understanding of PAAA requirements and use of Graded Approach to Quality Programs

• Reviews Suppliers proposals for compliance with quality requirements

• Makes quality category determinations in coordination with Engineering

• Reviews procurement orders, requisitions, product specifications, design specifications, and other documents for incorporation of appropriate quality controls, utilizing the Laboratory’s Quality Significant Review process.

• Provides staff with guidance concerning pre/post-procurement receipt of items, equipment, and services.

• Assists in implementation of nonconformance processing and in the development of effective corrective actions using the ORNL Assessments an