About this role
The SRTE Quality Engineering Manager provides direction to a team of quality engineers and oversight of the implementation and compliance of quality assurance requirements for a defense programs production agency facility. This function ensures that quality principles from NNSA NAP 401.1A, NQA-1, and DOE O 414.1E are integrated into production agency processes and facilities to promote communication, improvement, resolution, and mitigations to meet defense program mission delivery. • Provide leadership and direction for institutional and weapon quality engineers and weapon quality program engineers. • Develop departmental strategies to meet long term company objectives in weapon and institutional quality for an assigned facility/process. • Ensure departmental training and qualification programs meet NNSA expectations and requirements. • Coordinate with facility operations and engineering to achieve resolution and prevention of quality issues or nonconformances • Communicate with federal and contractor customers and partners to promote transparency, improvements, and issue resolution in support of mission delivery • Partner with other quality organizations in the nuclear security enterprise to improve processes and policies • Provide timely communication to federal customers at SRS NNSA field office and division level headquarters on key performance elements and processes. • Serve as a primary point of contact for NSE complex level teams for weapon quality. • Ensure NNSA delegated authority requirements are met for weapon quality processes and activities. • Provide oversight to ensure process integrity for acceptance of weapon product on behalf of NNSA. • Support weapon quality management system (WQMS) development and implementation. • Possess knowledge and experience with relevant policies/standards and ensure requirements are met for processes and operations. This includes but is not limited to: • NNSA Weapon Quality Policy, NAP 401.1A • Defense Programs Business Process System (DPBPS) SD 452.3-1A • Applicable DOE Orders for nuclear weapon processes, quality assurance (e.g. DOE O 414.1E or current revision) and nuclear facility operations • ASME Nuclear Quality Assurance (NQA-1) standards