Total 622 Quality Assurance / Control job vacancies

• Manage, direct, coordinate, and oversee the work of subordinate staff.
• Perform the administrative and personnel management functions relative to staff supervised.
• Use expertise in quantitative and qualitative analysis to resolve various management problems. Evaluate the effectiveness of programs or operations to meet established goals and objectives.
• Analyze new or amended legislation and develop policy and guidance covering administrative programs, activities, or functions for which the NCI has responsibility.
• Provide position management advice and recommendations to NCI managers regarding organizational realignments/changes.
• Establish and maintain methodologies and systems to collect and analyze data used in assessments, surveys, and creating reports and presentations by NCI senior staff.

• You will advise and guide others regarding the inspections process, rules or regulations.
• You will plan and execute command inspections and evaluations to assess operational risk and program compliance to established policies, procedures, and regulations.
• You will evaluate employee performance to identify areas for improvement.
• You will confirm the accuracy and authenticity of information to resolve issues of contradictory or inconclusive data.
• You will initiate new procedures and implement changes to support operations.
• You will identify trends, systemic issues, and root causes of non-compliance and make concise recommendations to leadership for corrective actions, as necessary or required under the law.

• 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.

• Serve as a subordinate supervisor to a Supervisory Veterinary Medical Officer (SVMO) in a large slaughter/combination plant.
• Ensure that regulated establishments produce a safe product by executing appropriate inspection methods, determining noncompliance with regulatory requirements, documenting non-compliance and initiating enforcement action, where warranted.
• Monitor line inspection activities, assure appropriate breaks are provided and that relief inspectors are utilizes as necessary.
• Provide training to new inspectors and to all inspectors as needed on new inspection procedures and techniques.
• GS-10 (552) Plans, directs, coordinates and supervises the day-to-day inspection activity on a particular shift in a large plant, assuring that Food Inspectors and Consumer Safety Inspectors follow the appropriate rules, regulations and procedures.
• Independently performs Hazard Analysis Verification (HAV). HAV is an analytical review of establishments' production process in order to ensure regulatory obligations to conduct a food safety hazard analysis.
• Review records, observe plant operations and conduct hands-on verification to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements. You will prepare detailed documentation (Non-Compliance Records) of non-compliance with regulatory requirements.
• You will 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 non-compliance, or if 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 plants' SSOP, HACCP plan and other food safety programs.
• You will communicate on and defend determinations on noncompliance 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 and will advise other Agency personnel on inspection and enforcement matters.
• You may 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.
• You may perform direct, structured sampling involving Protein Fat Free (PFF), undeclared species, undeclared ingredients or suspected economic violations involving net weight or labeling.
• You may be involved in performing health and safety verification sampling and tests for detection of specific microbes (e.g., salmonella, listeria, etc.), residues or contaminants.

As a Supervisory Inspector, you will:

• Lead and provide day-to-day oversight of multiple teams conducting performance, intelligence related allegation-based, and other inspections and special projects of the activities, programs, and operations within the DOE, as well as the operations of contractors and grantees, and associated entities (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Bonneville Power Administration, etc.).
• Coordinate and provide policy direction for intelligence related inspections of programs and operations within the Department, including the operations of contractors and grantees.
• Responsible for intelligence related Inspection Oversight, to include planning, workload planning, and conducting of allegation-based and performance inspections.
• Develop long-range Departmental performance intelligence related inspection objectives, directions of effort and broad resource application strategies, as well as changes thereto as dictated by circumstances in collaboration with the DAIG for OIIS and the AIG for OIIS.
• Devise targeting criteria to be used in selecting intelligence related inspections that will achieve the greatest deterrence of fraud, waste and abuse within the Department.

As a Public Health Advisor you will:

• Perform expert analysis and prepare intricate, substantive study reports to cover, at a minimum, study approach and methodologies, findings, and recommendations.
• Serve as senior level evaluator and conduct complex evaluation studies on one-of-a­ kind or controversial operating public health programs having far-reaching bureau or department-wide impact.
• Formulate national program and project goals, objectives, operating policies, strategic program plans, guidelines, standards, and priorities.
• Identify and evaluate information, data requirements, and resources to establish priorities and to maintain capacity to respond to internal and external demands.
• Develop and manage budgets and approve funding expenditures.
• Serve as liaison and responds to inquiries from staff, partners/collaborators, and the public.
• Supervise a small contingency of positions.

Coatesville VA Medical Center is a 42-building campus-style facility which sits on 128 acres and celebrated its 90th anniversary in November 2020. There are 301 inpatient and residential operating beds, and the medical center serves as a VA specialty referral facility for inpatient and residential mental health programs. In terms of inpatient beds, there are medical, psychiatry, and community living center (24-hour nursing care). Additional information can be found on our internet site VA Coatesville Health Care | Veterans Affairs.

• The Director of Quality Improvement is responsible for coordination and leadership in all performance and quality activities (Performance Measurement/Improvement, External Reviews/Accreditation, Risk Management/Peer Review Coordination, Infection Prevention, Patient Safety, Controlled Substance Program).
• This position is dedicated to the pursuit of higher facility-wide performance in each domain of value (quality, satisfaction, efficiency) through application of expertise, influence, management, and leadership.
• Ensures the facility overall performance and quality programs are coherent and consistent with the network and system wide goals and strategic objectives.
• Aligns and integrates a quality performance management system with leadership roles, strategic planning, and organizational culture. Establishes and maintains a quality measurement system which assesses clinical processes and outcomes, and identifies critical incidents, and the risk thereof, and sentinel events for actions.
• Creates a culture and environment that utilizes evidence-based practice as the pathway to improved outcomes and engages leaders and staff in the application of Just Culture principles.
• Supports and actively participates in initiatives such as Systems Redesign/Lean, Patient Centered Care, ICARE, and Cultural Transformation.
• Supports and participates in the engagement and change management of becoming a High Reliability Organization.

• Performs supply chain management quality functions for DLA Energy.
• Evaluates contractor's quality processes, procedures, and documentation for completeness, adequacy, and accuracy.
• Performs oversight functions at assigned facilities without direct supervision and reports progress of work to respective supervisor/commander.
• Ensures conformance of contractor systems, documentation and other qualitative and quantitative evidence of performance in accordance with management practices, solicitations/contracts, product specifications or other contractual requirements.
• Inspects conveyances (tankers, barges, pipeline setup, trucks, railcars, etc.) utilized for transporting petroleum, chemicals, lubricating oils, missile fuels and gases to determine their suitability for intended use.
• Observes key operations throughout the procurement process that include manufacturing, production, processing, blending, storage, sampling, testing, shipping, loading, calibration, and documentation.
• Analyzes solicitations, contracts and other specialized documents to implement DLA Energy Quality Assurance (QA) procedures to verify that products/services offered by the contractor comply with contractual requirements.

• Serves as a team leader for a quality assurance team, assigning work, providing feedback, checking progress, arranging training for team members, and providing input to supervisor.
• Reviews contracts to identify specification requirements needed from contractors.
• Communicates with contractors to ensure contractual compliance of contractor processes.
• Assesses contractor/subcontractor/vendor quality assurance controls; then adjusts product audits.
• Creates risk management program to mitigate the Governments risk by analyzing data/contractual requirements, preparing surveillance plans, and addressing specific customer/organizational requirements.
• Evaluates supplier quality systems using data validation, post-award first article meetings, and supplier’s test reports, then recommends dis/approval to contracting officers.
• Evaluates supplier’s responses to quality issues and requests corrections. Retains relevant data, correspondence, audits, etc.

• Responsible for understanding system functionality and business capabilities.
• Recommends changes in how the Tech/Quality (TQ) process is executed, including system changes or other process improvements.
• Coordinates with analysts throughout the TQ process area in their efforts to assist Business Process Analyst end users, and capture any problems encountered by Business Process Analyst end users.
• Acts as a focal point for gathering suggested improvements for the TQ process.
• Develops and monitors process-specific Key Performance Indicators (KPls) and metrics.
• Analyzes and evaluates KPls, metrics, and other process performance critical data to ensure the TQ process area is meeting its performance targets.
• Serves as analyst and advisor to the Process Owner on functional program/process improvement initiatives, and on the development and implementation of policies and procedures for the TQ process area with emphasis on the Engineering Support Program.
• Serves as the Branch Chief in the absence of the Technical Services Branch Supervisor.

As a Industrial Hygienist you will:

• Provide expert advice in industrial hygiene for NIOSH with responsibility for developing policy and objectives, coordinating responses to disasters and initiating requirements for the elimination or control of industrial environmental health hazards at their source. Identify gaps in knowledge on how to protect the health and safety of workers impacted by public health threats and support the development of research and other activities to narrow those gaps. Serve as a domestic and international consultant to health professionals, providing advice and technical assistance. As a senior industrial hygienist within NIOSH, participates in the creation and review of NIOSH documents and research publications that evaluate exposure levels and make recommendations for safe working levels for toxic substances for the safeguard of the workers' health. Provides consultation on industrial hygiene evaluation and exposure assessment including the anticipation, recognition, evaluation, and control of workplace hazards. Participates in interdivisional and interagency committees requiring expertise in all aspects of industrial hygiene and related disciplines.
• Review and make recommendations in the area of emergency preparedness and response on classified information, reports, or briefs on chemical, radiation, and biological terrorism; release of the information could seriously damage national security. Projects set National security and public health and safety policy regarding homeland security including protecting the Nation's critical infrastructure and key resources (CIKR) (i.e., law enforcement, emergency medical services, firefighters, first receivers, and public health professionals). May serve as needed as a liaison to the White House National Security Council and Department of Justice to provide novel and emergent chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosives (CBRNE) expertise as it relates to worker protection measures. May require access to CBRNE studies, information, and intelligence that are classified as Secret. Classified information will be accessed through in-person meetings in sensitive compartmented information facilities (SCIFs) and by classified telephone and email systems with the partners listed above. Provide justification for operating budgets and requirements for staff, facilities, and equipment. Evaluate program accomplishments, analyze reports, and determine exposure trends. Initiate surveys of potential health hazards and work processes or operations.

• Serves as a team leader for a quality assurance team, assigning work, providing feedback, checking progress, arranging training for team members, and providing input to supervisor.
• Reviews contracts to identify specification requirements needed from contractors.
• Communicates with contractors to ensure contractual compliance of contractor processes.
• Assesses contractor/subcontractor/vendor quality assurance controls; then adjusts product audits.
• Creates risk management program to mitigate the Governments risk by analyzing data/contractual requirements, preparing surveillance plans, and addressing specific customer/Organizational requirements.
• Evaluates supplier quality systems using data validation, post-award first article meetings, and suppliers test reports, then recommends dis/approval to contracting officers.
• Evaluates suppliers responses to quality issues and requests corrections.
• Retains relevant data, correspondence, audits, etc.