Quality Assurance Engineer (Advanced)

Job Title

Yulista Solutions LLC Regular

Essential Roles and Responsibilities

Provide technical expertise across the program acquisition life cycle in quality, mission assurance and manufacturing to the government for assigned MDA programs.

Implement MDA quality and mission assurance requirements by providing subject matter expertise for the identification, evaluation and mitigation of risks associated with various aspects of the design, development, manufacturing, fielding and operation of MDA systems.

The QS governing document to be implemented is the MDA Assurance Provisions (MAP).

This document is a standardized set of 14 QSMA provisions, requirements, and processes that apply to mission and safety critical items. The MAP gives MDA the methodology to measure, confirm, and validate mission success through collection and analysis of metrics, risk assessment, technical evaluations, independent assessment, reviews, conducting tests, and promoting continuous process improvement to reduce cost, improve productivity, and institute QSMA.

Assist with review and assessment of hardware and software compliance with quality and related mission assurance requirements, including support of failure investigations, failure review boards, evaluations, audits, and assessments. Activities include determining root cause of failures of MDA hardware.

Provide technical and data management expertise for quality and mission assurance boards, working groups, and reviews to include (but not limited to) technical and mission reviews, pedigree reviews, first article inspections, and risk working groups.

Prepare draft documents, briefs, presentations, and action items responses, which may include information papers.

Provide weekly status reports on activities and issues of concern.

Travel periodically, approximately twice per quarter.

Position is located at MDA facility in Huntsville, AL with expectation to work onsite at least 2 days per week, and may be additional days onsite as MDA transitions back to full time work in the buildings. Otherwise telework from home is authorized when not required to be onsite.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Professional engineering from a school of engineering Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology, Inc. (ABET) accredited as professional engineering curriculum.

Minimum of 15 years of experience in a related field.

Must have experience supporting/running Failure Review Boards, executing FRACAS process and knowledge of Reliability programs supporting quality and mission assurance.

Experience in Quality and in implementing quality practices and quality oversight.

Experience in assisting in the formulation of opinions, decisions for quality and mission assurance practices.

Experience in assessing advanced systems concepts, assess specifications and perform system integration.

Security Clearance requirements: Secret clearance.

Preference Statement

Preference will be given to Calista shareholders and their descendants and to spouses of Calista shareholders, and to shareholders of other corporations created pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, in accordance with Title 43 U.S. Code 1626(g).

EEO Statement

Additionally, it is our policy to select, place, train and promote the most qualified individuals based upon relevant factors such as work quality, attitude and experience, so as to provide equal employment opportunity for all employees in compliance with applicable local, state and federal laws and without regard to non-work related factors such as race, color, religion/creed, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship, genetic information, or other protected status. When applicable, our policy of non-discrimination applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including but not limited to, recruiting, hiring, training, transfer, promotion, placement, layoff, compensation, termination, reduction in force and benefits. REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION It is Calista and Subsidiaries' business philosophy and practice to provide reasonable accommodations, according to applicable state and federal laws, to all qualified individuals with physical or mental disabilities.