Leidos

Senior Quality Engineer

Leidos

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: Columbia • Maryland • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $116,350 - $210,325 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

ITSM

About the role

  • Manage program instantiation of the Quality Management System (QMS)
  • Deploy and implement appropriate QMS processes
  • Integrate closely with the program team to implement and execute the QMS
  • Drive and implement Agile best practices, streamline processes, and document improvement efficiencies
  • Recommend, facilitate, track and report on continuous process improvement activities
  • Implement audit practices for internal processes and products
  • Ensure adherence to all standards, Leidos policies, and best practices
  • Support the development and collection of performance metrics
  • Track, analyze and report to program management on trends found in the performance metrics
  • Provide the program manager with timely metrics and audit outcomes to gauge progress towards quality objectives
  • Report to higher level management on Quality Achievement and act as liaison for enterprise quality initiatives for the program.
  • Review and submit contract deliverables
  • Ensure compliance with PWS, QASP, EENG, ISO (namely 9001:2015) for the program as applicable
  • Create, update, adopt a Tailored Process Baselines (TPB) for the programs as applicable
  • Document and drive to closure nonconformities and requirement escapes via root cause analysis and corrective/preventive action
  • Support Leidos reporting, such as Quality Management Reviews, In Process Reviews, Weekly Activity Reports, and Monthly Operational Reviews
  • Other duties as required

Requirements

  • BS/BA degree and 12+ years of relevant experience or master’s and 10 years of prior relevant experience.
  • Experience providing Quality Management with Software Development and IT Service Management Projects
  • Lean Six-Sigma Green Belt
  • Experience auditing to external quality standards such as ISO9001/ISO20000/AS9100/CMMI Dev or Svc
  • Experienced with peer reviews and process auditing
  • Experience collecting and analyzing metrics
  • Ability to multi-task, complete tasks without direct supervision, and function in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
  • Excellent verbal and written skills
  • Proficiency with MS Office Products (Word, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, & Project)
  • Active Top Secret/SCI clearance with polygraph
Benefits
  • Health and Wellness programs
  • Income Protection
  • Paid Leave
  • Retirement

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
Quality Management System (QMS)Agile best practicescontinuous process improvementaudit practicesperformance metricsroot cause analysiscorrective actionpreventive actionLean Six-Sigma Green Beltprocess auditing
Soft skills
multi-taskingindependent workadaptabilityverbal communicationwritten communication
Certifications
Lean Six-Sigma Green BeltTop Secret/SCI clearance