What are the responsibilities and job description for the Quality Assurance Specialist position at Babcock & Wilcox?
Together with BWCC’s Operations Leadership Team, the Quality Assurance Specialist will be chartered with strengthening our QA/QC culture and enhancing predictability of performance throughout the territory. The Quality assurance specialists will ensure that products and services produced by the organization meet the desired quality standards. Their responsibilities include developing and implementing quality control procedures, monitoring product performance, and identifying and addressing quality issues. You will also conduct audits and inspections to ensure compliance with quality standards and regulations.
High School Diploma or GED
Vocational/Technical
Work experience will be accepted in lieu of degree
Preferred Work Experience
Domestic travel required
Manufacturing
- Coordinates all quality inspections within the assigned projects through the Global Quality Resource Coordinator
- Oversees all projects and products such that the B&W Global Quality process is followed in terms of:
- Specification Review
- Inspection and Test Plan Development
- Pre-Inspection Meeting with Client and Vendor
- Resources for the Execution of the ITP
- All Non-Conformance Reports and their Disposition or Resolution
- Determine if Corrective Action is needed and get the Vendor Control involved
- Client meetings
- Post-fabrication documentation, ASME Code Data books, and client product dossier are prepared properly and transmitted to the appropriate parties
- .Ensures inspections are performed by using the “geographically closest qualified inspector” to execute ITPs at vendors with B&W global quality resources or third party inspectors
- Ensures all necessary quality data is entered into the appropriate program to track, analyze, and report on quality performance
- Interacts with other managers to insure a fully coordinated quality program
- Participates in quality improvements in the quality system, offices, shops, and vendors
- Handles client complaints
- Supports both ASME, ISO, and any other certification audit process
- Performs internal and external audits as directed by Global Quality
- These duties are not meant to be all-inclusive and other duties may be assigned
High School Diploma or GED
Vocational/Technical
Work experience will be accepted in lieu of degree
Preferred Work Experience
- 10 years’ experience in the areas of Quality Assurance and Quality Control
- Foreign assignment experience a plus but not necessary
- React in a positive fashion to internal and external client requests
- Fabrication by welding
- Manufacturing experience
- Pressure Part fabrication and Structural Steel/Plate fabrication
- Familiar with ASME, AWS, and ISO codes
- Project management focused (cradle to grave - client relationships - problem solving - vendor claims - root cause analysis, etc.)
Domestic travel required
Manufacturing