Quality Representative

ORGANIZATION OVERVIEW:

The Planning, Performance and Quality Management Office (PPQM) provides an enterprise-level perspective on planning and performance and provides a focal point for Laboratory contractor assurance activities.  Within PPQM, the Quality Management Office (QMO) works with line organizations on developing and delivering programs, activities, and services that integrate quality assurance, environmental, and safety management principles throughout the Laboratory. Deployed Quality Representatives work closely with their assigned organizations to provide quality assurance functions tailored to the organization and serve as a liaison back to the QMO.

POSITION DESCRIPTION:

The Quality Management Office (QMO) at Brookhaven National Laboratory is seeking a self-starter to join their team as a deployed Quality Representative. As Quality Representative, you will apply standard quality assurance and quality control practices and techniques in specific aspects of design, procurement, manufacture, test, and initial operation. In this role, you will work with colleagues to support the implementation of quality assurance and quality control methods on projects and processes. Activities include planning, performing, and documenting assessments of processes against requirements; support the implementation of corrective action plans, analyzing performance data, performing supplier reviews and selections and incoming inspections, managing calibration programs, and developing and reviewing procedures.

This position will directly support the Accelerator Division (AD) within the Fundamental Interactions and Particles Directorate. The mission of the Accelerator Division is to develop, enhance, and operate the Directorate's suite of particle and heavy-ion accelerators, providing the operational stewardship, technical expertise, and infrastructure management needed to sustain world-class performance and operate the accelerator complex for decades of reliable operation in support of the EIC scientific mission at Brookhaven National Laboratory. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Assist the AD in implementing BNL’s Quality Assurance Program (QAP).
• Provide support to the organization’s assessment plan development and its management, Including assessment of AD procedures and BNL’s QAP.
• Provide input on the conduct of assessments, reporting and evaluation of assessment results.
• Assist with or conduct causal analyses, and extent of condition/cause evaluations.
• Provide corrective action management, including the timely development and implementation of effective corrective action plans, provide independent verification of corrective action implementation resulting from internal and external assessments, causal analysis, and surveillances.   
• Review procurement requisitions to ensure proper flow down of quality requirements
• Perform supplier evaluations, address suppliers’ nonconformances, audit suppliers, and support the performance incoming inspection/testing and acceptance.
• Review/approval of technical documents (e.g. drawings, engineering change requests, statements of work, specifications, procedures) to ensure appropriate quality requirements have been addressed.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or scientific discipline or closely related field of study.
• A minimum of 3 years of relevant work experience in quality assurance and/ or quality control methods.
• Knowledge of basic quality assurance and quality control methods.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills required to interact with a diverse group of engineers, scientists and technical staff.
• Ability to work in a matrix organization, both individually and on multi-disciplinary teams.
• Core skills include organizational and time management, ability to gather information and resourcefulness in resolving problems.
• Ability to work independently, make informed decisions, and exercise a high degree of discretion and judgement.
• Desire and ability to learn new systems.
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint).
• The ability to perform field surveillances (walking distances of more than ¼ mile), ability to be in areas of magnetic fields more than 5 gauss and work in radiologically controlled areas.

Preferred Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Seven (7) years relevant work experience.
• Knowledge of, or training/ certification in specific quality standards or skills (e.g., ISO9001, NQA-1, ASQ Certification, Auditing).
• Work or research in a science-based organization.
• Proficiency with Adobe and MS Visio.

Additional Information:

• This position is eligible for consideration of a flexible work arrangement (hybrid on-site 4 days/work-from-home 1 day).

Brookhaven National Laboratory is committed to providing fair, equitable and competitive compensation. This is a multi-level role and the full salary range for this position is $100,600 - $161,000/ year. You will be placed at the level and salary commensurate with your experience.  Salary offers will be commensurate with the final candidate’s qualification, education and experience and considered with the internal peer group.

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Brookhaven National Laboratory (www.bnl.gov) delivers discovery science and transformative technology to power and secure the nation’s future. Brookhaven Lab is a multidisciplinary laboratory with seven Nobel Prize-winning discoveries, 37 R&D 100 Awards, and more than 70 years of pioneering research. The Lab is primarily supported by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science. Brookhaven Science Associates (BSA) operates and manages the Laboratory for DOE. BSA is a partnership between Battelle and The Research Foundation for the State University of New York on behalf of Stony Brook University. BSA salutes our veterans and active military members with careers that leverage the skills and unique experience they gained while serving our country, learn more at BNL | Opportunities for Veterans at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

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