Quality Assurance Project Engineer 4 (ASME NQA-1 / 10 CFR 50 Appendix B / 10 CFR 21)

NOTE:  This position is available for the Houston area and fully remote work with occasional travel as required for business needs.  Must have experience with ASME NQA-1 / 10 CFR 50 Appendix B / 10 CFR 21

POSITION SUMMARY: The QA Project Engineer is responsible for supporting company/client projects by representing quality assurance in the planning, coordination, and execution of assigned project activities. The Project Engineer serves as a central point of contact between the QA team and other internal and external stakeholders for project-related cross functional quality and process related issues. The QA Project Engineer is responsible for understanding and communicating project quality requirements, ensuring they are well understood and appropriately reflected in internal documentation, and working with quality and other personnel to ensure that project quality requirements are flowed to suppliers as applicable. Typical internal stakeholders include project managers, business development and proposal team leads, engineering project leads, supply chain, individual contributors and managers. External stakeholders will typically include partner firms, with the QA project engineer leading interactions with respect to quality matters, and customers. Success in this role requires the ability to efficiently formulate plans and strategies to address requirements and new demands, as well as the ability to build strong relationships and teams. This position will occasionally be responsible for QA process related developments and will at times be asked to coordinate cross-functional project activities.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Interact with project team and management from multiple companies to manage cross-functional quality interfaces.
2. Have a diverse understanding of quality requirements to be able to provide input and support on a wide spectrum of quality and process related solutions.
3. Support and coordinate as needed quality responses to customer Requests for Information and other marketing related activities.
4. Effective development of quality requirements traceability matrix and incorporation of said matrix into project activities as applicable, and appropriate.
5. Manage first-of-a-kind issues and adapt to a constantly shifting business development environment; interface as needed with planners and other personnel to ensure that quality activities for a given project are accurately represented and accounted for in work management plans.
6. Proactively identify and achieve resolution of project issues and anticipated challenges, including escalation of issues within the NuScale organization when necessary.
7. Provide direction and coordinate project related activities through quality leads, supervisors, and managers.
8. Develop and maintain processes and procedures needed for the efficient execution of quality project activities.
9. Support project risk assessment and risk mitigation activities.
10. Perform other duties as assigned.

CORE COMPETENCIES: To perform the job successfully, the individual should demonstrate competencies in performing the essential functions of this position by performing satisfactorily in each of these competencies.

• Business Acumen: A strategic thinker with good business perspective and an understanding of the company’s business. Able to function comfortably in political interactions. Capable of developing strong interpersonal networks within and exterior to the organization.
• Problem solving: Decisive with good judgment. Identifies and resolves problems in a timely manner, gathers and reviews information appropriately. Uses own judgment and acts independently; seeks input from other team members as appropriate for complex or sensitive situations.
• Oral/written communication: Strong communication sk