LEAD QUALITY ASSURANCE SPECIALIST (SHIPBUILDING)

Full Job Description

You will serve as a Lead Quality Assurance Officer in the Quality Assurance Department of FWD DEPLOYED REG MAINT CTR DET ROTA.

The Secretary of Defense has ordered a department-wide hiring freeze subject to certain limited exceptions. This position is subject to the DoD hiring freeze.

Offers of employment related to this vacancy announcement will not be executed until the position has an approved exemption.

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-12 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector.

Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: Inspecting and testing shipboard hull, machinery repair, and maintenance, including the functional relationships among components and subsystems AND Completing the technical evaluations necessary to ensure conformance to specifications with all phases of inspection techniques in Quality Assurance AND Applying project management principles to approach the planning, organizing, directing, and controlling organizational resources, making appropriate prioritization and critical decisions to support the achievement of goals and objectives AND Communicating complex technical Quality Assurance requirements to non-technical personnel.

Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series Quality Assurance Series 1910 Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social).

Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.

During the application process you will have the ability to opt-in to make your resume available to hiring managers in the agency who have similar positions in the local commuting area.

Depending on the hiring organization and the position being filled, job requirements (e.g., security clearance, travel, drug testing, financial disclosure filing, bargaining unit status, etc.) may vary.

Other hiring managers filling similar positions may offer relocation expense reimbursement and/or may offer recruitment incentives for new employees, depending on funding availability and in accordance with policy.

If you opt-in and are referred on a certificate, your resume will be available to other hiring managers for 180-days from the date the job announcement closes.

Opting in does not impact your application for this announcement, nor does it guarantee further consideration for additional positions. Major Duties:

• You will serve as the Lead Quality Assurance Specialist responsible for the Intermediate Level Quality Assurance Program (IMA QA).
• You will prevent defects, identify deficiencies, and ensure that all maintenance work is performed in accordance with established standards, specifications, and procedures.
• You will be responsible for the proper and efficient use of all assigned resources (personnel, funding, and equipment) to execute and achieve Division goals.
• You will instruct employees in the selection of proper problem solving methods, techniques, provide advice on work methods, practices and procedures, and assist the team and/or individual members in identifying the parameters of a viable solution.
• You will research, learn and apply a wide range of qualitative and/or quantitative methods to identify, assess, analyze and improve team effectiveness, efficiency and work products.
• You will make decisions on problems presented by team members. This often involves interpretation of higher authority policy.
• You will serve as the Quality Assurance Officer who manages and provides technical direction for the Intermediate Level Quality Assurance Program
• You will be the technical expert responsible for the correct interpretation and application of Intermediate Level Quality Assurance required by Naval Sea System Command directives and higher-level instructions from Fleet and Type Commanders.
• You will be responsible for determining need, planning and development of command quality assurance instructions for the application and implementation of instructions and requirements.
• You will be responsible as an authority of the command for providing consistency through technical directives to assure explicit guidance in the review of work packages.
• You will manage the Quality Assurance training program, which provides in-house training to personnel in surveillance inspection and audit techniques as well as Ship’s Force Training.
• You will evaluate the Intermediate Level Quality Assurance Program and make recommendations to management.
• You will ensure the execution of audits and surveillances of various production shop processes internal to the government as required.
• You will schedule and participate in Quality Management System Audits of the industrial base as required by higher-level directives.