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| Product Assurance Engineer | Closing date: 2022-11-25
Contact: Heather |
An ideal role for a candidate with experience in developing and implementing quality assurance plans on major capital projects, able to influence stakeholders to ensure customer requirements and applicable standards are met.
For full details & to apply visit: https://recruitment.skao.int/vacancy/product-assurance-engineer-502974.html
SKA Observatory welcome all candidates, especially those from member countries. Our aim is to recruit and retain the most talented individuals, regardless of gender, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, nationality or background. | | ▸ more | At the SKAO we are coordinating a global effort to deliver one of the largest science facilities on the planet. The SKAO telescopes will be next-generation instruments that will help to answer key questions in astrophysics, drive technological innovation and support human capital development.
More than a dozen partner countries and over a thousand scientists and engineers around the world are already on board, making the SKA project an international collaboration like no other, and one of the most ambitious science and engineering endeavours of the 21st century.
The role
The Product Assurance Engineer will be responsible for the practical implementation of the quality assurance requirements of the SKA project, providing regular updates to the project team. This requires regular contact with the contractors to review and evaluate their work outputs at the different stages of the contract to ensure that they follow the processes defined in their quality plans; their solutions comply with requirements, applicable standards and regulations; and enlist the support of Subject Matter Experts as needed when carrying out these activities. Thus, the Product Assurance Engineer plays a major role in assuring the quality of the delivered products and their subsequent integration into the SKA Telescope system.
Responsibilities:
Quality Management System
- Contribute to the development of each Statement of Work to ensure quality requirements are clearly specified in contracts
- Review contractors' quality policy statements and plans to enable the Project Managers to accept them
- Monitor the implementation of the contractors' quality plans
- Work with Subject Matter Experts, Project Managers, and Contractors to identify critical items and raise early warnings, and follow up with their resolution
- Liaise with the Project Managers to ensure relevant disciplines - especially in specific risk areas - are available on the client side to support the quality assurance activities
- Regularly report to the project team on the overall implementation of the contractors' quality plans
- Lead the conduct of Quality Audits of allocated contracts and support other Product Assurance team members with the conduct of their audits
- Convene and/or attend and minute meetings including Early Warning meetings where related to product quality
- Log Learning from Experience (LfE) for all activities and ensure they are embodied in entry criteria into all reviews
- Maintain quality records that include contractor's progress records including where applicable imagery
Tests and Inspections
- Review contractor's test and inspection plans
- Clarify with the contractor those products which the scope states are to be tested or inspected before receiving and delivery to working areas
- Ensure that off-site tests or inspections are passed before items are delivered
- Identify and clarify with the contractors the standards to be applied in the manufacture, assembly, integration, inspection and test activities of the project
- Carry out planned mandatory inspections to assess the manufacturing, assembly, integration, inspections and test operations that are performed by the contractors to ensure they comply with the quality requirements, applicable standards and regulations
- Incorporate the considerations of SKA Safety Management in the scrutiny of test and inspection results
- Monitor, witness and report on tests and inspections activities
- Advise the Project Manager on the outputs of test and inspection activities that might affect payments and completion
Defect Notifications
- Notify contractors of nonconformances and defects
- Ensure all nonconformances are timely resolved in accordance with the agreed non-conformance management process
- Ensure the Defects Register is up to date throughout the duration of the contract
- Advise the Project Manager regarding the acceptance of defects and uncorrected defects
- Issue Defects Certificate
Mandatory criteria:
- Degree in manufacturing engineering or related disciplines, or equivalent experience
- Experience in carrying out quality assurance related activities on major capital projects (typically at least three years)
- Demonstrable understanding of one or more of both mass production and bespoke manufacturing processes that pertain to electronic equipment, civil works, plant/machinery, large fabricated structures and distribution systems (power, data, fluids)
- Experience of planning and carrying out of test and inspections on equipment and systems
- Experience of safety management systems
- Knowledge and implementation of ISO 9001 (or equivalent) in major capital projects
- Strong willingness to develop and maintain own knowledge in the area of quality assurance and control
- Ability to listen and communicate effectively, verbally and in writing
- Ability to influence and change behaviour of internal and external stakeholders
- Self-motivated problem-solver, proactive and flexible team player who is adaptable to change
- Ability and willingness to travel extensively, including for possible extended stays of up to 3 months in Australia and South Africa (subject to visa limitations)
Desirable criteria:
- Knowledge of working in the space or research infrastructure (preferably astronomy) industries
- Knowledge of the design and production of specialist scientific equipment such as cryogenics
- Understanding of systems engineering processes and familiarity of ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288 standard
- Understanding of agile software development processes
- Quality Assurance certifications
- Knowledge of NEC4 contracting
- Knowledge and experience of Contract Event Management and Reporting (CEMAR) tool
- Membership of, or eligibility for membership of, recognised national or international organisations such as International Register of Certificated Auditors
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