Senior Quality Engineer

Requisition ID: 276963 

•  Relocation Authorized: None 
• Telework Type: Full-Time Telework 
• Work Location: Oak Ridge, TN 

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Project Overview:

UPF will be a multi-year, multi-billion-dollar project and will be a first-of-its-kind complex for enriched uranium operations in support of Y-12 missions. UPF is one of the Department of Energy’s largest investments in Tennessee since the Manhattan Project and one of the National Nuclear Security Administration’s largest construction projects. When complete, UPF will: replace a 70-year-old facility with modern buildings, reduce operational costs and energy consumption, improve worker safety, and provide enriched uranium capabilities well into the future. The UPF project has multiple work schedules that are subject to change and may require employees to work overtime, weekends, and/or night shift when a business need arises. Work schedule and overtime are to be approved in advance by supervisors. 

 

Eligibility for this position requires US citizenship; the successful candidate must provide proof of US citizenship to obtain badge access to the site. Candidate must complete security questionnaire and successfully clear site access requirements check. All employees are subject and agree to random drug and alcohol testing as a condition of employment. Must be able to obtain a security clearance, as applicable.

 

Assigned to the Uranium Processing Facility (UPF) Engineering Organization in a Senior Quality Engineer Position.

 

Job Summary:

In this role, you will conduct field investigations and plan specifications for project industrial engineering design. You will lead the design, sequences, timing, improvements, and implementation of plans. You will interview clients, calculate estimates, and participate in new business and proposal development. Your technical expertise will help optimize performance, increase efficiency, and reduce waste. #LI-AA7

 

Major Responsibilities:

Level 1

• Lead all Quality Engineering efforts including interface with all stakeholders (i.e., Project Quality reps, Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC (CNS) and Government customers, as well as other project departments)
• Engineering POC for Engineering assigned Condition Reports (CRs)
• Take on ownership of CRs that address departmental programmatic issues.
• Lead the necessary teams or independently develop solutions to resolve these CRs with minimal oversight.
• Track status of Engineering owned CRs and ensure forecast dates are met and kept current.
• Provides direction to engineers to support preparation and implementation actions for CRs.
• Develop approaches to solving problems and conflicts associated with project condition reports.
• Develop and maintain all Engineering Department metrics. Develop recommended actions based on metric trends and execute these actions.
• Engineering SME for departmental procedures
• Leads coordination with other departments as well as project customers on the topics of condition reporting, management assessments, lessons learned, and procedure interface points.
• Lead efforts (on behalf of the PEM) to develop and implement Engineering programmatic improvements.
• Identify process improvement opportunities by working with engineering personnel.
• Assist with Procedure/Desktop issuance/updates.
• Lead the tracking of procedure/desktop periodic reviews.
• Follow up on actions taken in response to assessment findings to assure adequacy of completed corrective actions.
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