Quality Assurance / Quality Control Technician

Element has an opportunity for a Quality Assurance / Quality Control Technician to join our rapidly expanding team. The successful candidate will provide oversight within our Quality System primarily related to our Snubber Department work at our Huntsville, Alabama location including supporting off-site field services work at various power plant customers. Nuclear experience to 10CFR50 Appendix B, NQA-1 programs, and ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code Section XI Snubbers is preferred.

Salary: $50,000 - $70,000/yr DOE

Contribute to the delivery of Element's vision, strategy and objectives:
1. Set an example to all colleagues on the importance of quality and that it will not be compromised in any circumstances.
2. Ensure the Quality Management System is understood and followed by all as the primary Quality Representative working with our Snubber Department.
3. Ensure use of proper work instructions, quality procedures, and forms, providing coaching as necessary to maintain our Quality standards.
4. Be the primary point of contact for field services personnel and, when necessary, travel with those personnel to support customer contract requirements. This may include significant travel periods during spring and fall nuclear power plant outage seasons.
5. Promote a culture of quality and quality improvement in all parts of the business where you have influence.
6. Ensure quality control Hold points are completed as planned in accordance with procedures.
7. Provide backup to other Quality Assurance personnel as needed.

1. Knowledge and experience in the nuclear industry, particularly with safety-related components and quality systems
2. Ability to pass a nuclear field background check, as customer required
3. Three years plus experience preferred
4. Knowledge of ISO 17025 and ISO 19443 is a plus
5. Effective communication and collaboration
6. Self-motivated and ability to operate without direct supervision
7. Provide strong quality commitment and willingness to operate from a viewpoint of quality over schedule pressure
8. Proficiency in standard quality control tools: torque wrenches, calipers, micrometers, light meters, and other typical Measuring and Test Equipment
9. Proficiency in computer skills primarily with standard Windows applications

Element is one of the fastest growing testing, inspection and certification businesses in the world. Globally we have more than 9,000 brilliant minds operating from 270 sites across 30 countries. Together we share an ambitious purpose to 'Make tomorrow safer than today'.

When failure in use is not an option, we help customers make certain that their products, materials, processes and services are safe, compliant and fit for purpose. From early R&D, through complex regulatory approvals and into production, our global laboratory network of scientists, engineers, and technologists support customers to achieve assurance over product quality, sustainable outcomes, and market access.

While we are proud of our global reach, working at Element feels like being part of a smaller company. We empower you to take charge of your career, and reward excellence and integrity with growth and development.

Industries across the world depend on our care, attention to detail and the absolute accuracy of our work. The role we have to play in creating a safer world is much bigger than our organization.

At Element, we always take pride in putting our people first. We are an equal opportunity employer that recognizes diversity and inclusion as fundamental to our Vision of becoming "the world's most trusted testing partner".

All suitably qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective work related criteria and without regard for the following: age, disability, ethnic origin, gender, marital status, race, religion, responsibility of dependents, sexual orientation, or gender identity or other characteristics in accordance with the applicable governing laws or other characteristics in accordance with the applicable governing laws.

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

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