Lead Quality Assurance Specialist

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• 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 and adjusts product audits accordingly.
• Creates risk management programs to mitigate the Government's risk by analyzing data and contractual requirements, preparing surveillance plans, and addressing specific customer/organizational requirements.
• Evaluates supplier quality systems using data validation, post-award first article meetings, and test reports, then recommends dis/approval to contracting officers.
• Evaluates responses to quality issues from suppliers and requests corrections.
• Retains relevant data, correspondence, audits, and related documentation.

Requirements

• Must be a U.S. citizen.
• Security clearance: Noncritical-Sensitive with secret access.
• Completion of a favorable suitability or fitness determination; unfavorably adjudicated background checks will be grounds for removal.
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered or exempt from Selective Service.
• One year of specialized experience related to reviewing contracts, technical data, and designing risk management programs.
• Experience in reviewing contracts and technical data packages to identify specification requirements.
• Experience in designing, planning, and implementing risk management programs to address threats to contract delivery.

Nice to Have

• Experience with government contracting processes.
• Knowledge of DoD acquisition engineering and technology management.
• Ability to achieve 80 hours of Continuous Learning Points (CLPs) every 2 years.

Qualifications

• Experience at the GS-12 level or equivalent, with one year of specialized experience at GS-11 or equivalent.
• Experience in reviewing contracts, technical data, and implementing risk management programs.

Benefits & Perks

• A comprehensive benefits package as a federal employee.
• Access to a range of benefits designed to make a federal career rewarding.
• Details on specific benefits depend on the position type and employment status.