QUALITY ASSURANCE SPECIALIST (SHIPBUILDING)

About this role

GS-09 Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-07 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: * Experience with a full range of quality assurance principles, methods, and techniques sufficient to perform difficult assignments involving complex shipbuilding and ship repair products, processes, and systems.

* Experience understanding the relationship between quality assurance and engineering, production, planning, testing, supply, and other supporting activities. * Experience with reviewing and analyzing quality data to identify recurring defects, unfavorable trends, weaknesses in process controls, and areas warranting increased surveillance. * Experience investigating significant or recurring quality deficiencies, nonconforming conditions, adverse trends, customer complaints, and deficiencies identified through surveillance, audit, inspection, or testing.

GS-07 Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-05 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: * Experience with shipbuilding and ship repair processes and the ability to interpret drawings, technical specifications, work instructions, quality requirements, inspection and test criteria, and other technical documentation.

* Experience evaluating documentation and production activity to identify quality characteristics. * Experience preparing documented recommendations and communicating effectively with personnel having varied technical responsibilities. * Experience investigating quality problems, analyzing technical and quality data, and developing logical conclusions. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management web site: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series and https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/1900/quality-assurance-series-1910/ Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social).