QA Specialist

SUMMARY:

- Responsible for all activities involving quality assurance (continuous process improvements) and compliance with applicable regulatory requirements
- Conducts audits and reviews/analyzes data and documentation.
- Relies on limited experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
- Performs a variety of tasks.
- Works under general supervision.
- A certain degree of creativity and latitude is required.
- Typically reports to a supervisor or manager.
- Will be performing analysis to identify process improvements (spreadsheet analysis searching for patterns and deviations)
- Some cycle time analysis, but mostly deviations analysis to determine where changes need to be made to reduce the deviations
- Group will be inspecting methods (the actual inspectors are inspecting transmission structures, distribution lines and structures, poles, etc.)

SKILLS:

QUALIFICATIONS:

- Prefer a Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Engineering Quality.
- Strong analysis skills
- 2-5 years of experience in the field or in a related area.
- Familiar with standard concepts, practices, and procedures within a particular field.
- Good personality, outgoing, not afraid to ask questions
- Highly analytical person with less technical skills who fits in is better than a technically skilled person without a personality
- Will not be doing any inspections, receives the data from the inspectors to find trends
- Mainly working in Excel and some Access
- Data mining, trend analytics, deviation
- Any sort of Six Sigma experience VERY helpful Brown preferred
- Quality background a plus, but not required
- Project management experience a plus, team lead position
- Prefer Utilities experience or maybe Construction experience (the Six Sigma belt is one of the most important considerations)
- Will make presentations in PowerPoint
- Good with data (QCI downloads into Excel or Access to manipulate the data)
- Team leads to implement the improvements - PM skills would be preferred
- Six Sigma Brown Belt preferred
- Lead process change
- Identify, and justify change and make sure it sticks
- Some admin work with program QCI - Quality Control software (deviations that inspectors find; must be corrected by the organization within a specific time frame)
- Familiarity with ISO 2854 would be helpful