QUALITY ASSURANCE SPECIALIST (SHIPBUILDING)

Summary

You will serve as a QUALITY ASSURANCE SPECIALIST (SHIPBUILDING) in the ENGINEERING & ANALYSIS DIVISION (CODE 136), QUALITY ASSURANCE OFFICE of PORTSMOUTH NAVAL SHIPYARD.

Duties

• •You will perform quality assurance surveillance, audits, reviews, and investigations involving assigned shipyard production activities.
• •You will coordinate identified deficiencies with production, engineering, planning, testing, and other responsible organizations and follow corrective actions through completion.
• •You will determine whether approved procedures, drawings, specifications, technical work documents, inspection criteria, and process controls are being properly implemented.
• •You will evaluate workmanship, process controls, documentation, inspection results, and objective quality evidence to determine whether required quality characteristics have been achieved.
• •You will perform follow-up surveillance to verify that corrective actions have been implemented and are effective.

Qualifications

GS-09 Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-07 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: * Experience with a full range of quality assurance principles, methods, and techniques sufficient to perform difficult assignments involving complex shipbuilding and ship repair products, processes, and systems. * Experience understanding the relationship between quality assurance and engineering, production, planning, testing, supply, and other supporting activities. * Experience with reviewing and analyzing quality data to identify recurring defects, unfavorable trends, weaknesses in process controls, and areas warranting increased surveillance. * Experience investigating significant or recurring quality deficiencies, nonconforming conditions, adverse trends, customer complaints, and deficiencies identified through surveillance, audit, inspection, or testing. GS-07 Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-05 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: * Experience with shipbuilding and ship repair processes and the ability to interpret drawings, technical specifications, work instructions, quality requirements, inspection and test criteria, and other technical documentation. * Experience evaluating documentation and production activity to identify quality characteristics. * Experience preparing documented recommendations and communicating effectively with personnel having varied technical responsibilities. * Experience investigating quality problems, analyzing technical and quality data, and developing logical conclusions. 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 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.

Education

In lieu of specialized experience, you may qualify with the following education or combination of both education and experience: Undergraduate and Graduate Education: Major study -- quality assurance, statistics, mathematics, production management, industrial management, computer science, engineering, engineering technology, physical sciences, textiles, or other fields related to the position. GS-09 master's or equivalent graduate degree or 2 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree or LL.B. or J.D., if related GS-07 1 full year of graduate level education or superior academic achievement A transcript must be submitted with your application if qualifying using education. See Required Documents for additional information.