NASA's Sounding Rocket Operations Contract (NSROC) requires a Sr. Manager, Safety & Quality Assurance to lead the Safety & Quality Assurance organization, ensuring consistent achievement of NASA mission success metrics and maintaining ISO-9001 certification.
Requirements
- Knowledge of standards and methods for inspection, testing, and evaluation of electronic and mechanical components, tolerance requirements for machine shop products, and acceptance criteria for soldered and welded joints.
- Understanding of electronics acceptance testing requirements, component and launch vehicle assembly procedures, and launch vehicle inspection requirements.
- Experience with ISO 9001:2015
- Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) Control
- Cybersecurity
- May be certified in lean and six-sigma quality engineering methodologies.
- Designs and analyzes inspection and testing processes, mechanisms and equipment; conducts quality assurance tests; and performs statistical analysis to assess the cost of and determine the responsibility for, products or materials that do not meet required standards and specifications.
Responsibilities
- Establish program-level policies, procedures, quality metrics, and cross-functional standards for the S&QA and organization.
- Ensure program maintains ISO-9001 certification status through continual improvement and supporting internal and external audits.
- Chair of the Material Review Board, dispositioning Non-Conformances.
- Apply root cause analysis to support studies and anomaly investigations.
- Provide auditing support to the internal ISO and occupational safety audit program.
- Ensures that quality control procedures adequately evaluate products.
- Develops, modifies, applies and maintains quality evaluation and control systems and protocols for processing materials into partially finished or finished materials product.
Other
- Manage the performance of six to eight direct reports.
- Lead the NSROC organization to consistently achieve NASA mission success metrics in a high-tempo environment.
- Manage the S&QA financial budget, ensuring best-value for the government and consistent cash-flow.
- Serve on the RMB (Risk Management Board).
- Support responses to government task orders and solicitations with cost estimates and technical proposals.
