Experienced Quality Engineer - Supply Chain Engineering Assessor, Onsite

Sandia National Laboratories is the nation's premier science and engineering lab for national security and technology innovation, with teams of specialists focused on cutting-edge work in a broad array of areas. Some of the main reasons we love our jobs:

• Challenging work with amazing impact that contributes to security, peace, and freedom worldwide
• Extraordinary co-workers
• Some of the best tools, equipment, and research facilities in the world
• Career advancement and enrichment opportunities
• Flexible work arrangements for many positions include 9/80 (work 80 hours every two weeks, with every other Friday off) and 4/10 (work 4 ten-hour days each week) compressed workweeks, part-time work, and telecommuting (a mix of onsite work and working from home)
• Generous vacation, strong medical and other benefits, competitive 401k, learning opportunities, relocation assistance and amenities aimed at creating a solid work/life balance*

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The Special Projects Surety Engineering and Product Delivery Department, 2911, is looking for a highly motivated Supply Chain Engineering Assessor to provide Sandia Laboratory Executive Leadership, Mission, and Mission Support Centers collaborative technical solutions and assessments in support of our national security and Nuclear Deterrent programs.

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

• Communicate with external vendors/suppliers to support assessment activities such as scheduling, setting assessment expectations, and performing on-site vendor assessments
• Communicate with internal Product Realization Teams to support supplier assessment activities
• Author vendor assessment reports detailing compliance or non-compliance to NNSA supplier requirements
• Perform requirements trace from NNSA requirements to departmental policies and procedures.
• Establish, maintain, and improve quality policies, processes, procedures, and tools
• Assess processes and systems and conduct risk analysis, root cause analysis, corrective or preventive actions, lessons learned, and benchmarking. Track corrective and preventive actions to completion
• Ensure operation and continuous improvement of document control and records management processes
• Analyzes results of procedure implementation for problems or best practices in several disciplines
• Prepares reports and recommend solutions to technical problems as required
• Defines, selects, and applies various techniques including supplier qualification, certification, evaluation, ratings, performance improvement, etc.
• Identifies sources of design inputs such as customer requirements, regulatory requirements and how they translate into manufacturing
• Defines, describes, and interprets the basic elements of a quality system, including design, planning, control, and improvement, documentation, quality standards from product and process design through quality cost systems, audit programs, etc.
• Perform Nuclear Enterprise Assurance (NEA) vendor assessments to support NNSAs counter-subversion program
• Train and mentor early career assessor staff to conduct external vendor/supplier assessment activities

Due to the nature of work, successful candidate must be able to work onsite. This position will require travel up to 50%.

$102,400 - $199,700

*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.

• A Bachelor's degree in a Science, Technology or Engineering Field including areas such as Electrical, Mechanical, Systems, and Industrial Engineering, or other relevant disciplines plus five or more years of experience; or equivalent experience and/or achievements that demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and ability to perform the duties of the job
• Experience on gathering wide-ranging data, conducting supplier assessments and qualification, reviewing documentation, and performing research and analysis, utilizing the findings to come up with a conclusion
• Expertise in the analysis, design, development, and implementation of technical, performance-based, and/or quality assurance systems
• Experience in auditing and assessing processes and systems
• Skill in related technologies, such as mechanics, electronics, or computers
• Ability to obtain DOE Q- Level security clearance

• Masters degree in STEM field
• Expertise in the analysis, design, development, and implementation of technical, performance-based, and/or quality assurance systems
• Experience in auditing and assessing processes and systems
• Experience and demonstrated skill in conducting benchmarking, investigating alternative solutions, and recommending solutions for problems that affect performance results
• Expertise in the development and implementation of operating policies, processes, and procedures
• Proficiency in manufacturing, business process improvement, planning and implementing projects
• Experience in applying Quality Tools (e.g., RCA, Statistics, Lean methodology, Six Sigma)
• Strong writing, communication, facilitation, critical thinking, and organizational skills
• Ability to work independently as well as part of a team
• Ability to model behaviors that reflect Sandias core values
• Ability to work in a team-focused environment, exercise discretion, and maintain confidentiality of information
• Ability to conceptualize and communicate major elements of performance assurance to both technical and non-technical personnel
• Ability to develop, implement, verify, and validate processes to meet requirements
• Ability to exercise judgment in selecting methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for achieving results (e.g., Strategic planning, decision-making models)
• Knowledge of quality principles including project and configuration management processes and methodologies
• Ability to facilitate uncompromising, high-quality standards while maintaining effective working relationships
• Ability to interact effectively with all levels of internal and external personnel, including the ability to build effective working relationships and build and lead diverse teams across the laboratories

The Surety Engineering Groups (2910 & 2920) are a center of excellence for research and development (R&D) Surety Systems Engineering at Sandia National Laboratories. With multidisciplinary engineers at numerous sites, our organization provides R&D hardware and software surety and systems engineering expertise throughout the entire product realization lifecycle, as well as trains fellow scientists and engineers in trust assurance development and methodologies. We deliver strong technical solutions that increase customer confidence against loss, damage, and errors by minimizing a products risk through the prevention, early detection, and mitigation of defects. Our engineers play a critical role in R&D project teams responsible for realizing high-consequence products, providing customized engineering support that ensures the appropriate qualification and testing evidence meets design requirements in a predictable, timely, and sustainable manner.

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.

Sandia is required by DOE 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 obtain and 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.

If you have a Medical Portable Electronic Device (MedPED), such as a pacemaker, defibrillator, drug-releasing pump, hearing aids, or diagnostic equipment and other equipment for measuring, monitoring, and recording body functions such as heartbeat and brain waves, if employed by Sandia National Laboratories you may be required to comply with NNSA security requirements for MedPEDs.

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.