Engineering Technician III, Quality Manager

Role Overview

Engineering Technician III, Quality Manager with Amentum, responsible for the overall quality system and its implementation and management for the KAF Metrology Program.

Role Purpose

Oversee and maintain the quality system for the KAF Metrology Program, ensuring compliance with ISO 17025 standards and KAF directives while coordinating quality assurance efforts across all laboratory sections and supporting precision measurement capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

Quality System Management

• Own the overall quality system and its implementation and management for the KAF Metrology Program.
• Develop and maintain the laboratory quality manual and quality system using KAF command directives and standardized templates.
• Exercise independent judgment on issues concerning ISO 17025 and KAF-related quality documents.
• Perform trend analysis quarterly.

Quality Assurance Program Development

• Develop, maintain, and implement a Quality Assurance Program as per ISO 17025 directives that ensures involvement of all management and technical levels in the implementation, updating and utilization of a quality-oriented program at the KAFMB labs.
• Assess requirements and develop and maintain a complete QA Program for the KAFMB.
• Develop a QA Program for laboratory facility and related environmental control, development, operation and maintenance.

Quality Control Program

• Develop and maintain a Quality Control program that ensures a high-quality product from all sections of the KAFMB.

Coordination & Collaboration

• Coordinate with KAF management, QA, Laboratory Supervisors and Inspectors, Material/Production Control personnel and technicians to resolve problems and ensure an integrated effort.

Training & Technical Support

• Provide QA Program training and advice at the KAF Metrology Laboratory for a wide variety of complex precision measurement equipment utilized by the GOK activities.

Metrology Support

• Assist the Metrology Engineering Department in researching and developing a Primary Standards capability.

Additional Tasking

• Accept assignment as determined by the Commander, KAFMB, with related specific tasking details and priorities communicated to the Contractor lead.

Qualifications & Experience

• Associate's degree in engineering, engineering technology, physics or a related technical field from an accredited college or university, with at least ten (10) years of field experience; OR completion of a U.S. military precision measurement and calibration program, a precision measurement and calibration school at an accredited school, or within a specialized calibration firm, with twelve (12) years of work experience in the calibration field with extensive experience in QA.
• Demonstrated knowledge of the requirements of calibration laboratory compliance and accreditation to ISO 17025.
• Must have or be able to obtain and maintain a US Government Secret Security Clearance.
• US Citizenship is required to obtain a Secret Clearance.