Total 83 Quality Assurance / Control job vacancies in Fort Meade, Maryland

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING DAY TO DAY

As a Health Scientist Administrator, you will be:

1. Serving as a Contracting Officer Representative for grants and contracts that focus on Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project.
2. Collaborating on the preparation, presentation, and dissemination of scientific findings.
3. Serving as a technical expert supporting the Agency data development and research that uses clinical administrative health data.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING DAY TO DAY

As a Management and Program Analyst, GS-0343-14, you will be:

1. Serving as a Senior Management and Program Analyst.
2. Applying qualitative and quantitative methods to analyze and evaluate the administrative operations to determine efficiency and effectiveness.
3. Providing consultative services to senior level officials.

• Act in the capacity of Fire Prevention Inspection and advisor to the Assistant Fire Chief.
• Conduct both fire prevention and fire reaction training to all military and civilian on the installation and the surrounding community (public schools, civic clubs, nursing homes, etc.).
• Perform fire protection and prevention inspections for the reason of detecting, controlling, and eliminating hazards throughout the installation.
• Review plans and specifications for new construction and alterations and extensions of existing structures.

• Provide technical guidance and/or advisement on the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and Freedom of Information Act.
• Develop policy and procedures for local implementation of DoD HIPAA Privacy regulations.
• Prepare written reports for command group on Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance such as trends, problem areas, findings.
• Recommends protective measures such as file access controls, software and physical safeguards and personnel and visitor control at central and remote sites.
• Utilize an automated system to maintain and/or create documents and/or presentations for the facility.

• Serves as an Inspector General (IG), Chief of Assistance and Investigations, with responsibility for responding to requests for IG assistance, conducting investigations, and planning and executing site visits.
• Evaluates and assesses overall operations of organization by reviewing assistance and investigation activity in such areas as resource utilization, military leadership, training, compliance with regulations and directives, and business practices.
• Prepares report of findings, and develops briefing or executive summary for presentation to the Commander, Deputy Commander, Chief of Staff, and senior leaders in HQ ARCYBER.
• Serves as the liaison between DoDIG, DAIG, Combatant Command IGs, USCYBERCOM, ACOM/ASCC/DRU IGs, NETCOM, 7th SC(T), 335th and 311th SC(T) IG subordinate commands in discussing issues relevant to the IG functional responsibilities.
• Analyzes and reports on ARCYBER’s state of economy, efficiency, systemic weaknesses, discipline, and morale for the Commanding General.
• Conducts investigations into complaints, allegations of fraud, improper conduct, and other situations where individuals assert they have been wronged by a DoD system or that a system is not functioning as required or designed.

• Guide the Contracting Officer Representative (COR) on resolving noncompliance issues and implementing corrective actions effectively.
• Provide guidance to dining facility staff on the proper care, use, and maintenance of food service equipment to maintain efficiency.
• Advise on equipment upgrades and modernization efforts to enhance dining facility functionality.
• Analyze statistical data to compile quarterly Food Cost and Feeding Strength Summary Reports for program oversight.
• Inspect food preparation processes to verify meal quality, progressive cookery, and plate waste management.
• Conduct compliance evaluations of dining facilities to ensure adherence to contractual, regulatory, and operational standards.

The National Security Agency (NSA) currently has opportunities for highly motivated Industrial Control System (ICS) Specialists/Engineers to provide expertise in the design, construction, commissioning, and operation of new and renovated electrical and mechanical infrastructure. This position has two areas of focus, one within Design and Engineering (D&E) and the other with Operations and Maintenance (O&M).

As an ICS Specialist/Engineer within D&E, you will work closely with multidisciplinary teams encompassing project managers, stakeholders, and contractors throughout the entirety of the project life-cycle, including close coordination with O&M. You will also be responsible for the development and review of designs, specifications, technical reports, and cost estimates for power monitoring and control of electrical and mechanical infrastructure, energy management monitoring, and ICS cybersecurity.

As an ICS Specialist/Engineer within O&M, you will work closely with ICS Specialists who support many facets of the Industrial Control Systems in the Facilities Control Center (FCC), which is a 24/7 operations center where facilities systems can be effectively monitored and maintained. The ICS team supports power monitoring and control, energy management monitoring and control, the transport network and various Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT) hardware, components, software, and applications to ensure a robust secure operation of the overall system.

• Inspect vehicles transporting ammunition to ensure the vehicle is mechanically safe to transport ammunition and that the ammunition loaded on vehicle is compatible, properly loaded and secured, and appropriate placarding is in place.
• Use automated / manual inventory systems to maintain records.
• Periodically inspects ammunition magazines to ensure that ammunition is packaged, marked, and stored IAW applicable regulations
• Conducts visual type of inspections of ammunition ensuring packages and marks ammunition in accordance with regulations.
• Operate electric, gasoline, or diesel-powered forklift trucks in order to lift loads weighing up to 10,000 pounds and as high as 168 inches.
• Ensure ammunition items are appropriately stored in correct areas.

You will serve as a/an Material Inspector in the SFLC warehouse and be responsible for ensuring the quantity and condition of material matches inventory records and/or due-in requirements.

Being a Coast Guard civilian makes you a valuable member of the Coast Guard team. Typical work assignments include:

• Performing a structured receiving inspection on all commercially procured items which are not subject to Government Point of Origin inspection;.
• Performing a structured inspection on materials in the warehouse to assure their continued quality;.
• Using precision measuring instruments, micrometers, vernier calipers, various gauges and a variety of other precision measuring instruments to assure product quality, and.
• Preparing inspection documents associated with the quality control inspection function.

• YOU WILL/MAY:
• Ensure that regulated establishments produce a safe product by executing appropriate inspection methods, determining non-compliance with regulatory requirements, documenting noncompliance and initiating enforcement actions, where warranted.
• Verify that meat and poultry slaughter and/or processing establishment's Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures (SSOP) and Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) Plans meet regulatory requirements.
• Execute Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures (SSOP) and Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) Plans effectively to prevent unsanitary conditions and adulteration of product.
• Review records, observe plant operations and conduct hands-on verification to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and prepare detailed documentation (Non-Compliance Records) of non-compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Determine when regulatory control action is necessary. You will assess whether the plant's corrective or preventative actions are acceptable and effective, if there are trends in noncompliance, or if an enforcement action is warranted.
• Conduct regulatory oversight activities inside plants in matters relating to other consumer protections (e.g., economic adulteration and misbranding).
• Have contact with plant managers, owners and others to explain legal and regulatory requirements, discuss operation of the plant's SSOP, HACCP plan and other food safety programs.
• Communicate and defend determinations on non-compliance issues and discuss plans for addressing non-compliance.
• Work with a variety of individuals to resolve problems, clarify differences of interpretation concerning HACCP and other food safety or consumer protection requirements.
• Advise other Agency inspectors, supervisors and officers on inspection and enforcement matters for which you are involved.
• Conduct various samplings, surveys and tests to obtain pertinent data on potential problem areas, industry trends, or other issues of current interest to the Agency.
• Be involved in performing health and safety verification sampling and tests for detection of specific microbes (e.g., salmonella, listeria, etc.), residues or contaminants.
• Assure that products approved for import are in full compliance with all applicable Federal regulations governing the importation of meat and poultry products.
• Authorize entry of all meat or poultry products considered to comply with Federal regulations or refuse entry of any products which violate any of the requirements for admission into this country.
• Coordinate with other Federal agencies (e.g., the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on such matters as animal health restrictions and refused entry lots.

• You will serve as an Audit Liaison to the Fleet Cyber command enterprise's subordinate commands, field activities, and forward elements.
• You will provide expert technical advice and guidance to the Commander, Deputy Commander, and Senior Staff on inspections and investigations as the Inspector General.
• You will direct workflow and priorities to ensure timely accomplishment of the Inspector General Office's mission by mitigating risk and optimizing enterprise readiness through professional Inspector General products and services.
• You will supervise the Inspector General staff and perform technical, administrative, and management tasks and provide provide justification, direction, and allocation of resources (people, budget, material).
• You will develop the objectives, policy, and guidance for and maintain oversight of the command’s Inspection Program.
• You will conduct investigations, including hotline investigations, military whistleblower reprisal investigations, investigations in response to Congressional inquiries, and other investigations.
• You will review feedback, findings, and recommendations from the auditing agency and provide concurrence, as appropriate, for recommendations.

The VA Midwest Health Care Network advocates for a Whole Health System of care in each of the Medical Centers. This is an approach to healthcare that empowers and equips people to take charge of their health and well-being and live their lives to the fullest. As an employee operating in a Whole Health System of care, you will operate in a model with three core elements, seeking to create a personalized health plan for each Veteran. This is done in the context of healing relationships and healing environments and a connection back to the Veteran's community. This aligns with the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Mission Statement to Honor America's Veterans by providing exceptional health care that improves their health and well-being.

The RN VASQIP Quality Consultant duties include, but are not limited to:

• Identifies surgical cases for inclusion into the National Surgery Office (NSO) database based on appropriate selection criteria.
• Based on established NSO detailed definitions of each preoperative, operative, and outcome measures, the VASQIP Consultant will collect and enter data into the NSO database within the required times.
• Analyzes the data and reports information to identify the need for change in surgical service that may include the need to minimize risk and ensure effectiveness of clinical quality improvement.
• Communicates and collaborates with the interdisciplinary team on any findings to analyze care trends and identify opportunities for improved quality of care.
• Participates in other quality-related initiatives within the Surgery Service and throughout the medical center.
• Maintains effective communication skills, serves as a consultant for VASQIP and quality-related matters.
• Comprehends and effectively analyzes the clinical contents of medical records and associated documents in terms of quality and appropriateness of care issues such as adherence to or deviation from accepted diagnostic and treatment protocols, including drug therapies, and the presence or absence of expected outcomes.
• Possesses clinical knowledge of medical care processes and the analytical ability to correlate clinical diagnosis and symptoms with established diagnostic and treatment modalities.
• Maintains current knowledge of research and incorporates the findings into the measurement and evaluation of clinical practice.

• Under the guidance and direction of higher grade team leader, prepares contract specifications and technical exhibits for simplified contracts, as assigned by the team leader, and develop contract modifications for existing contracts.
• Reviews plans, sketches, blueprints, other similar technical information, and input from both customers and other DPW personnel to prepare contract requirements.
• Submits reports of documented instance of unacceptable contractor performance and contractor's failure to comply with contractual provisions.
• Based on contractual workload, determines valid changes and recurring requirements brought on by changes in procedures and operations.
• Determines effectiveness of contractor’s response to procedural and operational changes required by modifications to current regulations.

• YOU WILL/MAY:
• Ensure that regulated establishments produce a safe product by executing appropriate inspection methods, determining non-compliance with regulatory requirements, documenting noncompliance and initiating enforcement actions, where warranted.
• Verify that meat and poultry slaughter and/or processing establishment's Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures (SSOP) and Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) Plans meet regulatory requirements.
• Execute Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures (SSOP) and Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) Plans effectively to prevent unsanitary conditions and adulteration of product.
• Review records, observe plant operations and conduct hands-on verification to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and prepare detailed documentation (Non-Compliance Records) of non-compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Determine when regulatory control action is necessary. You will assess whether the plant's corrective or preventative actions are acceptable and effective, if there are trends in noncompliance, or if an enforcement action is warranted.
• Conduct regulatory oversight activities inside plants in matters relating to other consumer protections (e.g., economic adulteration and misbranding).
• Have contact with plant managers, owners and others to explain legal and regulatory requirements, discuss operation of the plant's SSOP, HACCP plan and other food safety programs.
• Communicate and defend determinations on non-compliance issues and discuss plans for addressing non-compliance.
• Work with a variety of individuals to resolve problems, clarify differences of interpretation concerning HACCP and other food safety or consumer protection requirements.
• Advise other Agency inspectors, supervisors and officers on inspection and enforcement matters for which you are involved.
• Conduct various samplings, surveys and tests to obtain pertinent data on potential problem areas, industry trends, or other issues of current interest to the Agency.
• Be involved in performing health and safety verification sampling and tests for detection of specific microbes (e.g., salmonella, listeria, etc.), residues or contaminants.
• Assure that products approved for import are in full compliance with all applicable Federal regulations governing the importation of meat and poultry products.
• Authorize entry of all meat or poultry products considered to comply with Federal regulations or refuse entry of any products which violate any of the requirements for admission into this country.
• Coordinate with other Federal agencies (e.g., the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on such matters as animal health restrictions and refused entry lots.

• YOU WILL/MAY:
• Ensure that regulated establishments produce a safe product by executing appropriate inspection methods, determining non-compliance with regulatory requirements, documenting noncompliance and initiating enforcement actions, where warranted.
• Verify that meat and poultry slaughter and/or processing establishment's Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures (SSOP) and Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) Plans meet regulatory requirements.
• Execute Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures (SSOP) and Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) Plans effectively to prevent unsanitary conditions and adulteration of product.
• Review records, observe plant operations and conduct hands-on verification to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and prepare detailed documentation (Non-Compliance Records) of non-compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Determine when regulatory control action is necessary. You will assess whether the plant's corrective or preventative actions are acceptable and effective, if there are trends in noncompliance, or if an enforcement action is warranted.
• Conduct regulatory oversight activities inside plants in matters relating to other consumer protections (e.g., economic adulteration and misbranding).
• Have contact with plant managers, owners and others to explain legal and regulatory requirements, discuss operation of the plant's SSOP, HACCP plan and other food safety programs.
• Communicate and defend determinations on non-compliance issues and discuss plans for addressing non-compliance.
• Work with a variety of individuals to resolve problems, clarify differences of interpretation concerning HACCP and other food safety or consumer protection requirements.
• Advise other Agency inspectors, supervisors and officers on inspection and enforcement matters for which you are involved.
• Conduct various samplings, surveys and tests to obtain pertinent data on potential problem areas, industry trends, or other issues of current interest to the Agency.
• Be involved in performing health and safety verification sampling and tests for detection of specific microbes (e.g., salmonella, listeria, etc.), residues or contaminants.
• Assure that products approved for import are in full compliance with all applicable Federal regulations governing the importation of meat and poultry products.
• Authorize entry of all meat or poultry products considered to comply with Federal regulations or refuse entry of any products which violate any of the requirements for admission into this country.
• Coordinate with other Federal agencies (e.g., the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on such matters as animal health restrictions and refused entry lots.