Laboratory Quality Assurance Lead

Company Description
Join us and make YOUR mark on the World!
Are you interested in joining some of the brightest talent in the world to strengthen the United States’ security? Come join Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) where our employees apply their expertise to create solutions for BIG ideas that make our world a better place.
We are committed to a diverse and equitable workforce with an inclusive culture that values and celebrates the diversity of our people, talents, ideas, experiences, and perspectives. This is important for continued success of the Laboratory’s mission.
Pay Range
$170,430 - $218,868 Annually
Please note that the pay range information is a general guideline only. Many factors are taken into consideration when setting starting pay including education, experience, the external labor market, and internal equity
Job Description
We have an opening for a Laboratory Quality Assurance Lead. You will work with the Environment, Safety & Health (ES&H) Analytical Services and Instrumentation (AS&I) Department to assure environmental, industrial hygiene and radiological analytical data and processes meet appropriate Quality Assurance and quality control standards. This position acts as the American Industrial Hygiene Association - Laboratory Accreditation Program (AIHA-LAP), California Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Program (CA ELAP) and Department of Energy Laboratory Accreditation Program (DOELAP) designated Quality Assurance Manager/Lead. This position is in the ES&H Directorate’s Technical Services Department.
You will

• You will Provide oversight and direction to ensure that ES&H AS&I laboratories are compliant with applicable AIHA-LAP, CA ELAP and DOELAP requirements to maintain the accreditations.
• Administer four QMSs including three QA plans and numerous SOPs implementing QA requirements in seven laboratories including maintaining two blind QC procedures.
• Prepare and perform annual reviews of accreditation checklists based on accreditation standards. Develop and implement corrective action plans.
• Prepare accreditation renewal applications to the accrediting bodies. Interface with accrediting bodies and Livermore Field Office, and act as point of contact for all accreditations.
• Lead and facilitate multiple on-site accreditation assessments. Develop and implement corrective action plans.
• Lead management reviews for all accredited laboratories. Prepare agenda and conduct in-person meetings. Document and implement action items.
• Prepare quarterly reports for seven different laboratories.
• Prepare nonconformance reports and support associated investigations and corrective actions.
• Provide expert Quality Assurance guidance and direction to management, laboratory staff, and technical leaders.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Ability to secure and maintain a U.S. DOE Q-level security clearance which requires U.S. citizenship.
• Bachelor’s degree in chemistry, radiochemistry, nuclear chemistry, or other closely related applied science, or the equivalent combination of education and significant related experience and demonstrated ability to lead independent work.
• Significant experience administering multiple quality management systems for laboratories, such as ISO 17025, AIHA-LAP, California State Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Program (CA-ELAP), TNI 2016 or DOELAP.
• Demonstrated ability to lead multiple levels of staff in the implementation and maintenance of associated QMS activities.
• Experience with laboratory information management systems (LIMS).
• Ability to review and interpret highly complex technical data generated by the analyses performed in environmental, industrial hygiene, external dosimetry, radiation spectroscopy, or radiochemical laboratories.
• Highly advanced analytical, decision-making, and problem-solving skills to evaluate, interpret, negotiate, recommend, and implement actions/solutions to complex problems.
• Effective and efficient organizational skills to coordinate multiple and frequently conflicting, concurrent tasks, with frequent interruptions and changing priorities.
• Significant experience determining long and short-term project objectives with limited consultative direction, working independently and in a team environment with a broad cross-section of people and organizations, managing complex projects, and meeting schedules.
• Expert verbal and written communication skills necessary to effectively collaborate in a team environment and present and explain technical information and provide advice to all levels of scientific staff, management, and external collaborators.

Qualifications We Desire

• Experience with two or more of the following: personnel dosimetry, alpha spectroscopy, gamma spectroscopy, gas proportional, liquid scintillation counting, inductive coupled plasma emission spectroscopy (ICP-OES), gas chromatography mass spectroscopy (GC-MS ) instrumentation.
• Experience administering Quality Assurance programs in DOE or other governmental programs.
• Experience managing an AIHA-LAP Quality Assurance program.

Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Position Information
This is a Career Indefinite position. Lab employees may be considered for this position.
Security Clearance
This position requires a Department of Energy (DOE) Q-level clearance. If you are selected, we will initiate a Federal background investigation to determine if you meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information or matter. Also, all L or Q cleared employees are subject to random drug testing. Q-level clearance requires U.S. citizenship.
Equal Employment Opportunity
We are an equal opportunity employer that is committed to providing all with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, marital status, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, protected veteran status, age, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws.
We invite you to review the Equal Employment Opportunity posters which include EEO is the Law and Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision.
Reasonable Accommodation
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