Job Title: QA Representative
Location: Birmingham, AL, USA - Must be a US citizen
Duration: Permanent position
Salary: $65,000 (based on experience (+/-)

Benefits Include:
- Vacation - 3 weeks
- Paid holidays
- 401k
- Profit sharing

MUST HAVE Experience: 10+ years Quality with ASME NQA-1, audit experience/knowledge

Essential Functions
• Foster a zero-defect culture with the objective of providing products that are trusted and preferred by customers.
• Drive the Nuclear quality strategy across all value streams and functions.
• Prevent defects by proactively driving built-in quality tools (PFMEAs, Control Plans) into processes.
• Lead efforts to review and implement learnings and industry guidance from INPO and nuclear industry customers
• Responsible for supplier quality and industry audits
• Protect customers through systemic root cause problem-solving, coaching teams to solve problems quickly with rigor and transparency and ensuring systems are in-place to leverage lessons learned.
• Create quality standards across the business and ensure team executes to those standards.
• Ensure that Quality Management System (QMS) requirements are effectively maintained in compliance with all regulatory standards.
• Be accountable for continuous improvement processes that boost operational reliability and operational excellence.
• Minimize CoPQ and impact KPIs such as Customer Events and NCRs.
• Lead the Nuclear Quality team
• Build an inclusive culture by focusing on safety and quality and aligning with the client, ensuring effective cross-functional communication and engagement with team members to ensure understanding and alignment with operational goals.

Basic Qualifications

• Highschool diploma
• 10 years of professional or military experience in Quality, Engineering, Supply Chain or Services
• Nuclear industry experience
• MUST have working knowledge of ASME NQA-1
• 5 years of management experience

Required Qualifications

• Strategic thinker with ability to drive a strategic change agenda across the organization
• Demonstrated experience leading and developing Quality policies, procedures and practices in regulated, quality-focused industries.
• Strong knowledge of quality tools and processes, including Built in Quality (BiQ) tools, Stop Work, Management of Change, Statistical Process Controls, Quality at the Source, Mistake Proofing, etc.
• Knowledge and experience with the following regulations / industry quality standards: NRC 10CFR50 Appendix B, NQA-1, 10CFR21, ASME BPVC, ISO 9001 standards