Engineering Technician III, Quality Manager

Role Overview

Engineering Technician III, Quality Manager at Amentum. The role manages the overall quality system for the KAF Metrology Program.

Role Purpose

Oversee and implement the quality system for the KAF Metrology Program, ensuring compliance with ISO 17025 standards and KAF directives while maintaining laboratory quality documentation and coordinating quality assurance across all laboratory sections.

Key Responsibilities

Quality System Management

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

Quality Assurance Program Development

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

Quality Control Operations

• Develop and maintain a Quality Control program that ensures high-quality products from all sections of the KAFMB.
• Perform trend analysis quarterly.

Coordination and Collaboration

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

Technical Support

• Assist the Metrology Engineering Department in researching and developing a Primary Standards capability.
• Provide QA Program training and advice at the KAF Metrology Laboratory for a wide variety of complex precision measurement equipment utilized by GOK activities.

Additional Assignment

• Accept assignment of related specific tasking details and priorities as determined and communicated by the Commander, KAFMB, and 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 specialized experience within a calibration firm, with twelve (12) years of work experience in the calibration field and extensive experience in QA.
• Demonstrated knowledge of the requirements of calibration laboratory compliance and accreditation to ISO 17025.