Senior QC Inspector

Mission Support and Test Services, LLC (MSTS) manages and operates the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) for the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA).  Our MISSION is to help ensure the security of the United States and its allies by providing high-hazard experimentation and incident response capabilities through operations, engineering, education, field, and integration services and by acting as environmental stewards to the Site’s Cold War legacy.  Our VISION is to be the user site of choice for large-scale, high-hazard, national security experimentation, with premier facilities and capabilities below ground, on the ground, and in the air. (See NNSS.gov for our unique capabilities.) Our 2,750+ professional, craft, and support employees are called upon to innovate, collaborate, and deliver on some of the more difficult nuclear security challenges facing the world today.   

• MSTS offers our full-time employees highly competitive salaries and benefits packages including medical, dental, and vision; both a pension and a 401k; paid time off and 96 hours of paid holidays; relocation (if located more than 75 miles from work location); tuition assistance and reimbursement; and more.  
• MSTS is a limited liability company consisting of Honeywell International Inc. (Honeywell), Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Jacobs), and HII Nuclear Inc.

The Materials Testing Lab located at the Nevada National Security Site has an opening for a highly qualified Senior Quality Control Inspector to support ongoing projects. 

 Key Responsibilities

• Plans, and directs the day-to-day activities of a Quality Control (QC) inspection and testing personnel and operations.
• Maintain comprehensive company level QC program implementing documents (Soils, Concrete and Materials Testing); provide interpretations of codes and standards and mentor employees on procedural adherence to these processes.
• Perform oversight, through independent quality control inspections and verifications, of items, systems, components, or products that are fabricated or installed by other workers for new or existing facilities and infrastructures.
• Exhibit a high degree of technical knowledge and skills to execute applicable national consensus codes and standards in order to inspect, examine, or test items or products to ensure they meet design requirement.
• Select the appropriate national consensus codes or standards and develop quality inspection criteria to be used to perform inspections.
• Train and qualify subordinate QC Inspection personnel in various inspection disciplines.
• Maintain qualification and or certification to perform Quality Control inspection activities based on education, training, experience in one or more of the inspection disciplines (e.g. welding, nondestructive examination/testing, boilers and pressure systems, geometric dimensioning and tolerancing, materials testing and verification, concrete, soils, anchoring, etc.).
• Make autonomous judgment during inspections activities to determine whether items, systems, components, or products are acceptable for use, or not, based on design requirements.
• Generate nonconformance reports that document the objective evidence where items or products do not meet design requirements.
• Authority to identify nonconforming conditions or defects and prevent items or products from being released for use until nonconforming conditions are resolved.
• Interface with internal line personnel (engineering, construction, facility, project, operations, work control, procurement, maintenance, quality assurance, etc.), middle and senior managers, and external MSTS customers to analyze and correct the production problems. Document the results of inspections or tests in accordance with national consensus standards and codes, procedures, engineering requirements, and/or industry practices as defined in written procedures.

• Bachelor’s degree in related field, or equivalent training and experience, and at least of 5 years’ relevant experience.
• At least 2 years of experience related to nuclear facilities preferred.
• Must show knowledge, skill, and ability in the field of quality control inspection discipline by passing an oral and written examination, as well as demonstration of proficiency. Must have commensurate experience in interpreting national consensus codes and standards, in the applicable field of inspection (welding, pressure safety, materials testing, geometric dimensioning and tolerancing, etc.) and preparing inspection plans, tests, check lists, establishing inspection set ups and techniques, and determining equipment to use; supervision or surveillance over inspections and tests; providing technical supervision and certifying lower-level personnel; and evaluating the validity and acceptability of inspection and test res