Assistant Vice President Nuclear Quality Assurance Specialist

This Opportunity

WSP is currently initiating a search for an Assistant Vice President Nuclear Quality Assurance Manager. The chosen candidate can sit in any of our offices in the USA. The Nuclear Quality Assurance Manager is responsible for verifying the status of implementation of the Nuclear QA Program. This role requires interaction with project staff, customers, and regulators. This is a senior level position in the NQA Group with the expectation that the candidate will manage lower-level personnel and grow the program through a combination of training, mentoring, and on the job experience. The candidate will work under the WSP USA Nuclear Quality Assurance Program.

Your Impact

• Verifying the status of the implementation of the NQA Program
• Developing and maintaining the Nuclear QA Manual (NQAM), Nuclear Quality Assurance Procedures (NQAP), Quality Directives (QD) and related quality procedures and forms
• Verifying compliance with regulatory requirements and procedures through audits and quality reviews
• Monitoring organization processes to ensure conformance to commitments
• Assuring that vendors providing quality-affecting services or items meet the programmatic requirements
• May act on behalf of junior NQA staff to perform QA surveillances, assessments, readiness reviews, and in reviewing documents controlling project technical and quality activities if needed
• May approve individuals for appointment as Nuclear Chief Technical Leads, Nuclear Project Managers, and Nuclear Technical Leads for NQA projects. Maintains a list of approved Nuclear Project Managers and Nuclear Technical Leads for NQA projects
• Participate in the order entry process to review and identify quality-related items/requirements and verify that customer specific quality and technical requirements are incorporated into the project
Perform evaluations of the NQA program adequacy

Who You Are

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of a four-year professional or technical degree (in Quality, Engineering, or related Science)
• Professional registration or certification preferred
• Computer competency in Microsoft office and SharePoint
• A minimum of ten years of professional experience
• Five years of experience working on projects subject to nuclear quality assurance requirements with at least 3 years of experience in managing a 10CFR50 Appendix B / NQA-1 compliant quality assurance program
• Ability to achieve NQA-1 Lead Auditor certification
• Ability to foster a collaborative attitude with project staff while maintaining required independence of the NQM oversight role
• Commitment to the principles and requirements of the WSP USA Nuclear Quality Assurance Program
• Ability to work independently while meeting schedule and project commitments
• Ability to understand and adhere to safety requirements
• Analytical, problem solving skills and systematic thinking
• Good personal interaction skills
• Good speaking, writing and presentation skills
• Good attention to detail

• Travel is required for this position, but is not expected to exceed 30% of the time
  

  
  
  

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WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms. Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals. WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets. With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper.

WSP provides a flexible and agile workplace model while meeting client needs. Employees are also afforded a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career.

At WSP, we want to give our employees the challenges they seek to grow their careers and knowledge base. Your daily contributions to your team will be essential in meeting client objectives, goals and challenges. Are you ready to get started?

WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.

The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.

NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES:

WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or other staffing services. Unsolicited resumes include any resume or hiring document sent to WSP in the absence of a signed Service Agreement where WSP has expressly requested recruitment/staffing services specific to the position at hand. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers or other business leaders, will become the property of WSP and WSP will have the right to hire that candidate without reservation – no fee or other compensation will be owed or paid to the recruiter, employment agency, or other staffing service.