LEAD QUALITY ASSURANCE SPECIALIST (SHIPBUILDING)

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-11 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector monitoring and evaluating contractor quality assurance programs to ensure compliance with contract specifications related to electrical and/or combat systems on major shipbuilding projects.

Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management web site: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series AND Individual Occupational Requirement (IOR): https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/1900/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.

You will be the primary representative in the welding and non-destructive testing specialties, and coordinate the production and test oversight efforts of QA personnel and certification and inspection teams to the shipbuilding program.,You will coordinate all oversight efforts concerning shipboard electrical systems, including distribution, generation, bonding and grounding, machinery controls, cable routing, and all other electrical systems and infrastructure.,You will coordinate all oversight efforts concerning mechanical and auxiliary systems, testing, load outs, bonding and grounding of equipment, and associated infrastructure.,You will retrieve and analyze group recorded quality data to analyze trends, populate assessments, and support recommendations.,You will plan and apply QA methods and techniques to audit and monitor the Contractor’s QA system and processes.,You will guide the team in the identification and application of problem solving methods and techniques, provide counsel on work methods, practices and procedures, and assist the member's efforts toward realizing the most viable solution.,You will monitor subsequent efforts to both assure the product delivered adheres to referenced standards, that corrective actions prove successful, and adequate to prevent recurrence.,You will act as primary Government representative in fabrication specialties; coordinate production/test oversight efforts of QA personnel and certification and inspection teams to support to the shipbuilding program.,You will collect, interpret, and analyze internal operations and shipbuilder procurement, production and quality data, and vendor's Government Source Inspection data, and develop special reports to assess performance trends and improvements.,You will maintain familiarity with a variety of requirements and specifications such as contracts specifications; detailed drawings; Commercial, Government and Military standards; command and other applicable personnel regulations and guidance.