Prin QA Spec

Job Description

Mission Support and Test Services, LLC (MSTS) manages and operates the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) for the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). Our MISSION is to help ensure the security of the United States and its allies by providing high-hazard experimentation and incident response capabilities through operations, engineering, education, field, and integration services and by acting as environmental stewards to the Site’s Cold War legacy. Our VISION is to be the user site of choice for large-scale, high-hazard, national security experimentation, with premier facilities and capabilities below ground, on the ground, and in the air. (See NNSS.gov for our unique capabilities.) Our 2,750 professional, craft, and support employees are called upon to innovate, collaborate, and deliver on some of the more difficult nuclear security challenges facing the world today. In this environment, the best ideas need to be voiced and every opinion matters. As such, MSTS places great value on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and is committed to a diverse and equitable workforce, with an inclusive culture that values and celebrates the diversity of our people, talents, ideas, and perspectives.

• MSTS offers our full-time employees highly competitive salaries and benefits packages including medical, dental, and vision; both a pension and a 401k; paid time off and 96 hours of paid holidays; relocation (if located more than 75 miles from work location); tuition assistance and reimbursement; and more.
• MSTS is a limited liability company consisting of Honeywell International Inc. (Honeywell), Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Jacobs), and HII Nuclear Inc.
  
  

Responsibilities

The Quality Operations Division is in search of a highly qualified Principal Quality Assurance Specialist to support various ongoing missions and projects at the Nevada National Security Site. This position will be responsible for regularly interacting with project leaders and members and offer expert guidance from a quality perspective.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide highly specialized expert knowledge to solve complex quality assurance problems across multiple organizations and national laboratory partners in support of the Stockpile Experimentation and Operations (SEO) Facilities. Integrates and coordinates a team of qualified quality assurance personnel to provide support to other organizations and laboratories to ensure that activities comply with laws, codes, orders, and policies and procedures.
• Serves as Subject Matter Expert (SME) to both internal and external parties supporting facility operations. Provides cross-disciplinary integration and implementation of corporate quality programs across the various laboratories supporting the project.
• Serves as an organizational resource and adviser to the organizational team and an adviser to senior management on project status and issues related to facility operations.
• Plans, directs, leads, or performs independent assessments and surveillances using quality technical standards and practices to ensure process control and compliance.
• Develop long range plans and needs in the areas of quality assurance to support new or proposed future missions.
• Promote team member development through mentoring, guiding, training, and coaching to ensure staff are appropriately trained and meet appropriate qualifications.
• Communicates with senior managers, peers, and subordinates in the organization and well as with other company organizational units on matters related to quality.
• Participate in early stages of planning activities, developing proposals or deliverables that are effective and provided within schedule. Consults with senior line organization managers on quality matters to ensure that procedures and work practices comply with the quality programs and governmental requirements. Provides training, mentoring, and technical guidance to less experienced QA personnel to assist and ensure they complete their required qualifications.
  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a Technical field related to the position or equivalent training and experience, plus a minimum of 9 years of relevant experience.
• Demonstrated leadership experience with nuclear quality related standards and policies, is desirable.
• Must be able to utilize independent judgment, creativity, initiative, and ability within area of control to apply knowledge and experience to resolve problems and accomplish goals where established procedures and processes may not exist.
• Able to prioritize and schedule multiple activities of work-unit.
• Must possess excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to deal with all types of people in a tactful, professional, and effective manner while screening and maintaining confidentiality.
• Must possess excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Must possess advanced computer skills with software applications such as the MS Office suite.
• Ability to supervise others in the performance of verification of procured material and to develop verification plans and programs.
• The primary work location will be at the Losee Road facility in North Las Vegas, Nevada. Work at the Nevada National Security Site (located 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada) may be required in support of these functions.
• Work schedule will be 4/10s Monday through Thursday (subject to change).
• Pre-placement physical examination, which includes a drug screen, is required. MSTS maintains a substance abuse policy that includes random drug testing.
• Must possess a valid driver's license.
  
  

MSTS 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 offered employment with MSTS are also 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. In addition, Applicants for employment must be able to obtain and maintain a DOE Q-level security clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship, at least 18 years of age. Reference DOE Order 472.2 , “Personnel Security”. 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.

Department of Energy Q Clearance (position will be cleared to this level). Reviews and tests for the absence of any illegal drug as defined in 10 CFR Part 707.4 , “Workplace Substance Abuse Programs at DOE Sites,” will be conducted. Applicant selected will be subject to a Federal background investigation, required to participate in subsequent reinvestigations, and must meet the eligibility requirements for access to classified matter. Successful completion of a counterintelligence evaluation, which may include a counterintelligence-scope polygraph examination, may also be required. Reference 10 CFR Part 709 , “Counterintelligence Evaluation Program.”

MSTS is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. MSTS is a background screening, drug-free workplace.

Annual salary range for this position is: $117,270.40 - $178,838.40.

Starting salary is determined based on the position market value, the individual candidate education and experience and internal equity.