Lead Quality Engineer

Requisition ID: 275389 

•  Relocation Authorized: National - Family 
• Telework Type: Full-Time Office/Project 
• Work Location: Ogden, UT 

Project Overview:

Bechtel is on the Northrop Grumman Corp. team preparing to deliver the U.S. Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) system of inter-continental ballistic missiles and launch infrastructure. The Sentinel project is a vital U.S. Air Force program designed to modernize the nation’s aging force of inter-continental ballistic missiles, which make up the ground element of the nuclear deterrent. As part of the Northrop Grumman and Sentinel nationwide team, Bechtel will provide launch system design, construction, and integration.

 

A major contractor for the United States and allied governments, Bechtel has handled such efforts as chemical weapons demilitarization projects, missile-defense, infrastructure, base operations, procurement and project management, and restoration and recovery spanning half a century. We use our expertise to help our customers securely and effectively transform mission delivery. 

 

Work Location:

Ogden, Weber County, UT.  

 

Candidate must possess active security clearance or ability to obtain security clearance. Unescorted access required. Candidate must successfully clear National Agency Check (NAC). All employees are subject to and agree to random drug and alcohol testing as a condition of employment.  Must be able to work safely at a construction site. Based on project goals and objectives, candidates established within our local community are desirable.

 

Position Summary:

This position is for a Quality Engineering Lead who will support the Sentinel engineering team in a supervisory role to ensure overall quality deliverables associated with the project. This position completes Quality Engineering (QE) deliverables and provides leadership for a team of QEs. QE deliverables include QE checklists, audits, assessments, and line surveillances across engineering deliverables. QE deliverables are aimed at ensuring procedure compliance across the Engineering organization.

 

The QE Lead is responsible for creating a periodic Engineering Quality presentations to the engineering team with programmatic updates within:

• Project and quality initiatives.
• Engineering program updates.
• Engineering procedure alignments and updates.
• Quality Engineering checklist metrics/results.
• Sentinel Engineering assessment results.
• Condition Report (and other quality metrics).

 

This role represents Sentinel Engineering in internal/external audits by identifying, organizing, scheduling, and reporting progress on Sentinel Engineering assessments.The successful candidate must have strong communication, organizational and teamwork skills, ability to work independently, good attention to detail, proven problem-solving abilities and a can-do attitude. The successful candidate will interface with technical personnel (e.g., engineers, designers), Project Management, Project Quality, and potentially the customer. The successful candidate will report to the Project Engineering Manager. The successful candidate will be required to be familiar with relevant Bechtel Engineering Department Procedures (EDPs), Engineering Department Procedure Instructions (EDPIs), design standards and guides, and Bechtel Standard Application Programs (BSAPs).

 

Responsibilities:

The Quality Engineering Lead's responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:

• Leadership to the quality engineering group including Engineering audit assessment planning, scheduling, progress reporting, and QE checklist process improvements.
• Direct, coordinate, and supervise daily quality engineering activities for quality engineers assigned to the project’s Engineering team.
• Provide leadership for issue resolution between QEs and procedure subject matters experts, engineering group supervisors, and engineers.
• Prepare, and present project engineering quality reports and metrics to project engineering team, NS&E Functional Management, and customer.
• Participate in and support internal and external project quality surveillances and audits.
• Review multiple engineering discipline deliverables to ensure cohesiveness, coordination, and overall quality products.
• Review and translate simple to complex technical documents with objective of producing procedures, instructions, and training material.
• Develop and/or update project engineering procedures and/or instructions to ensure alignment with Bechtel NS&E and corporate procedures, contract requirements and applicable codes and standards.
• Coordinate project engineering procedure and instruction revisions with engineering project management, NS&E