Senior/Principal Product Quality Assurance Technologist - Product Realization, Onsite

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We are seeking a highly motivated Product Quality Assurance Technologist to join the dynamic product realization teams of group 7520. Our team has a diverse set of skills and background to enable rapid production missions in close collaboration with our customers and partners. You will be responsible for overseeing a variety of work to enable the successful acceptance of Mark Quality diamond-stamped production hardware. This will require you to gain a deep understanding of the quality management system and be fully integrated into the production team. Work closely with the engineering team and operational floor to solve issues, document any deviances or non-compliances, and prepare product acceptance packages.

On any given day, you may be called on to:

• Work closely with the 7521 and 7522 product and process engineers to ensure a technical understanding of the processes and expected results, recognizing product requirement deviations, troubleshooting, and determining an effective solution.
• Become familiar with any NNSA, and SNL established quality requirements needed to fulfill your job role and be able to provide guidance on how to apply them
• Review acceptance packages and partner with technologists, and engineers to actively anticipate acceptance issues, resolve them in a timely manner, and recommend and implement corrective actions
• Collaborate with SFO and delegated QARs and auditors when product acceptance questions arise
• Monitor process health and identify ways to increase yields, decrease variability, decrease span time, and mistake proof
• Recommend corrective or preventive actions to assure or improve product quality and may be responsible for their implementation
• Author and maintain written work instructions, operating procedures, or other technical documents to control product definition during the manufacturing process
• Assemble and review product quality data to support product acceptance activities
• Partner with techs and engineers on the team to deliver complex products to the highest quality, safety, and security standards
• Review production and development data across a variety of record-keeping systems.
• Become trained in Lean Six Sigma (LSS) and participate in or lead continuous improvement activities as assigned in the department
• Gain a deep understanding of production processes, with careful attention paid to the product acceptance processes
• Seek out and pursue opportunities for continuous improvement across all production areas, working closely with the broader team to implement industry standard Lean Six Sigma quality practices.
• Monitor and audit work practices to ensure quality assurance programs and corrective actions are successfully implemented.

Applicants on this requisition may be interviewed by multiple organizations at Sandia National Laboratories.

Due to the nature of work, the successful candidate must be able to work onsite.

$63,800 - $123,400

*Salary range is estimated, and actual salary will be determined after consideration of the selected candidate's experience and qualifications, and application of any approved geographic salary differential.

• High school diploma plus 5 years of relevant experience
• Experience performing document review
• An active DOE Q clearance, or equivalent is required to start

• Experience working on the SCN
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt Certification
• Proven experience identifying and implementing continuous improvements in a manufacturing environment
• Experience in a manufacturing environment with the ability to manage multiple competing priorities
• Experience in quality inspection or assurance roles, including familiarity with reading and interpreting quality criteria
• Strong attention to detail applied in daily responsibilities
• Excellent technical communication skills, both verbal and written, using Microsoft Office software
• Willingness to work in a dynamic, schedule-driven, high-rigor production environment.
• Commitment to a culture of safety and security
• Outstanding teamwork skills with the ability to collaborate and solve problems in a diverse team environment
• Demonstrated ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team executing various product realization missions
• Experience creating detailed work instructions and operating procedures and understanding product definition

The Advanced Manufacturing group (7520) serves the evolving needs across the NSE and strategic partners (SPP) by providing a suite of services ranging from consultation for product feasibility and readiness, design for manufacturing support, to responding as a designated Production Agency (PA) of last resort capable of delivering mark quality, diamond stamped product. With decades of product realization experience across ND and SPP programs together with our strategic partnerships across SNL and the NSE, we aim to provide flexible and rapid responses to unique production-related challenges. Our teams represent a diverse set of skills and background to enable rapid production missions in close collaboration with our customers and partners. Our experience spans various disciplines and domains including, but not limited to Testing (electrical, thermal, and environmental), Engineering (mechanical, electrical, chemical, industrial), Electro-mechanical assembly, ND component production, Additive Manufacturing, Sounding rockets, Semiconductors, Automation, Trusted vendor qualification, Packaging and logistics, Project management, and Data mining and analysis.

This posting will be open for application submissions for a minimum of three (3) calendar days, including the 'posting date'. Sandia reserves the right to extend the posting date at any time.

Position requires a Department of Energy (DOE) Q security clearance to start, or equivalent active security clearance with another U.S. government agency (e.g., DOD). Sandia is required by DOE directive to conduct a pre-employment drug test and background review that includes checks of personal references, credit, law enforcement records, and employment/education verifications. Applicants for employment need to be able to maintain a DOE Q-level security clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship. If you hold more than one citizenship (i.e., of the U.S. and another country), your ability to obtain a security clearance may be impacted.

Applicants offered employment with Sandia are subject to a federal background investigation to meet the requirements for access to classified information or matter if the duties of the position require a DOE security clearance. Substance abuse or illegal drug use, falsification of information, criminal activity, serious misconduct or other indicators of untrustworthiness can cause a clearance to be denied or terminated by DOE, resulting in the inability to perform the duties assigned and subsequent termination of employment.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status and any other protected class under state or federal law.

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If you have a MedPED and you are selected for an on-site interview at Sandia National Laboratories, there may be additional steps necessary to ensure compliance with NNSA security requirements prior to the interview date.