Quality Assurance Specialist (Deployable)
Defense Contract Management Agency
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Lead Quality Assurance Specialist
Defense Contract Management Agency
Department of Defense
Location
Salary
$95,326 - $123,927
per year
Type
Full-Time
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GS-12 Pay Grade
Base salary range: $74,441 - $96,770
Typical requirements: 1 year specialized experience at GS-11. Advanced degree + significant experience.
Note: Actual salary includes locality pay (15-40%+ depending on location).
Job Description
Summary
This job involves leading a team to ensure defense contractors meet contract standards and quality requirements, while managing risks to protect government interests.
It includes reviewing contracts, communicating with suppliers, and evaluating their quality systems to recommend approvals or fixes.
A good fit would be someone with experience in quality assurance, team leadership, and working with contracts in a technical or defense setting.
Key Requirements
- One year of specialized experience at GS-11 level or equivalent in quality assurance, contract review, or risk management
- Ability to lead a team, assign work, provide feedback, and arrange training
- Skills in reviewing contracts and technical data to identify specification requirements
- Experience communicating with contractors to ensure compliance and assess quality controls
- Proficiency in designing and implementing risk management programs, including surveillance plans
- Knowledge of evaluating supplier quality systems using data validation, audits, and test reports
- Ability to analyze data, recommend approvals or corrections to contracting officers, and retain relevant documentation
Full Job Description
See below for important information regarding this job. Additional vacancies may be filled from this announcement.
To qualify for a Lead Quality Assurance Specialist, your resume and supporting documentation must support: A.
Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience that equipped you with the particular competencies to successfully perform the duties of the position and is directly in or related to this position.
To qualify at the GS-12 level, applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 level or equivalent under other pay systems in the Federal service, military or private sector.
Applicants must meet eligibility requirements including time-in-grade (General Schedule (GS) positions only), time-after-competitive appointment, minimum qualifications, and any other regulatory requirements by the cut-off/closing date of the announcement.
Creditable specialized experience includes: Reviewing contracts and technical data packages to identify the specification requirements which the contractor's process must meet.
Designing, planning and implementing an effective risk management program to ensure that all threats to the successful delivery of the contract are addressed and mitigated in the Government's best interests.
Major Duties:
- Serves as a team leader for a quality assurance team, assigning work, providing feedback, checking progress, arranging training for team members, and providing input to supervisor.
- Reviews contracts to identify specification requirements needed from contractors.
- Communicates with contractors to ensure contractual compliance of contractor processes.
- Assesses contractor/subcontractor/vendor quality assurance controls; then adjusts product audits.
- Creates risk management program to mitigate the Governments risk by analyzing data/contractual requirements, preparing surveillance plans, and addressing specific customer/Organizational requirements.
- Evaluates supplier quality systems using data validation, post-award first article meetings, and suppliers test reports, then recommends dis/approval to contracting officers.
- Evaluates suppliers responses to quality issues and requests corrections.
- Retains relevant data, correspondence, audits, etc.
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