Quality Assurance Site Lead

Leidos is a FORTUNE 500 company bringing a mix of innovative technology and sector expertise to customers in the national security, engineering, and the health industries. Leidos employees enjoy market-competitive compensation and benefits and career growth opportunities to match individual ambitions.

Leidos is seeking a Quality Assurance Site Lead to support the Maritime System Division (MSD) in Sterling, VA, an AS9100 certified facility. The successful candidate shall work for a hardware-production and integration facility supporting DoD customers. MSD/Sterling runs a design/build business model, creating new products each year and building and supporting them to meet various customers’ needs. Current baseline includes 25 product lines of rugged displays and computers, integrated rack systems, and consoles, in a light touch, high mix/ low rate of production environment providing systems for almost every ship and submarine in the fleet through various Navy activities, shipbuilders, and integrators.

The Quality Assurance Site Lead is responsible for maintaining the Quality Management System (QMS) and ensuring that industries standards (eg, ISO, AS9100, CMMI, etc) and all necessary QMS processes are adequately defined, deployed, and continually improved.

Primary Responsibilities

The candidate shall

• Support the development of new products and the continuous production of quality systems
• Monitor the AS9100 QMS that ensures delivery of quality products that conform to contract requirements
Ensure the practice of quality inspections of in-process production items and finished products meets written procedures and standards.
• Responsible for developing, collecting, tracking, and monitoring and briefing key performance indicators
(KPI’s).
• Conduct Quality Management Reviews, quarterly
Report on the QMS as implemented and engage site leadership regarding progress towards meeting quality objectives.
• Oversee the conduct of inspections, including receiving inspection, in-process inspection, and final inspection
Inspections are performed by Quality Control Representatives.
• Support engineering team during new product design
• Coordinate and provide training to the employees on QMS processes and related documentation to ensure understanding and effective practice
• Interact directly with customers regarding product quality and maintain solid customer relations, as required
What
• Review and analyze quality clauses in requests for proposals
(RFPs) and statements of work (SOW) when proposing future work and in contracts post award to ensure the Sterling QMS will meet requirements. Define any gaps and implement needed changes with site leadership. Identify requirements to flow down to suppliers.
• Manage the internal audit program
Includes: planning, 3-yr audit schedule, conducting audits, and audit reporting.
• Generate corrective action requests for audit findings and maintain the audit database with timely updates/closures of audit findings
• Support the development of Sterling’s supply chains with quality measurements and relationship building
Conduct on-site or virtual supplier quality survey for initial evaluation and periodic re-evaluation of Leidos suppliers.
• Manage the Non-Conformance process for defective products and materials
Apply defect analysis to investigate, categorize, resolve, and report manufacturing defects.
• Conducts root cause analysis
(RCA) on trends, customer concerns/CAR/negative CPARs to ensure corrective and preventive actions are performed to prevent recurrence.
• Lead continuous improvement objectives of the Sterling, VA site
• Other duties as assigned

Basic Qualifications

• Experience operating and maintaining a AS9100 quality system
• BS degree and 4 years’ relevant experience or MS and 2 years’ relevant experience
• Strong communication and analytical skills
• Ability to manage many activities simultaneously
• Self-starter with attention to detail / observant
• Able to interpret written specifications and drawings
• Ability to stand for long period of time
• Must be able to lift 50 pounds
• Must be able to work in warehouse/production environment
• Able to obtain Secret security clearance

Preferred Qualifications

• Industry quality certification in AS9100, is highly desirable
• Possess foundational understanding of acceptable quality level
(AQL), ISO, Lean, Root Cause Analysis
• Experience leading and supervising teams
• Familiarity with hardware development processes
• Familiarity with DOD quality assurance processes
• Proficient in MS Office and ability to learn new systems to support job responsibilities

Pay Range

Pay Range $66,300.00 - $102,000.00 - $137,700.00
The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.