Senior Quality Assurance Specialist

Nautel Ltd.; Nova Scotia; On-site; CAD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Nautel Limited is seeking a Quality Assurance leader to oversee day-to-day QA for our products and to support the ISO9001 Quality Management System. The role reports to the Quality Manager and involves cross-functional coordination across the organization.

Responsibilities include leading QA deliverables, supplier quality requirements, staff training, and driving root cause analyses and corrective actions to maintain high product quality.

Qualifications

• Leads project quality assurance activities and serves as QA point of contact.
• Develops and implements QA deliverables (plans, presentations, reports, analyses).
• Defines and implements supplier quality requirements and approvals.
• Trains staff on contract quality assurance requirements.

Responsibilities

• Lead QA activities and be the QA point of contact.
• Develop and implement QA deliverables and analyses.
• Define supplier QA requirements, approvals, and milestones.
• Train staff on contract QA requirements.
• Lead failure analysis and corrective actions.
• Maintain records and analyze data to report trends.
• Coordinate across all levels and functions.
• Support ISO9001 Quality Management System maintenance.
• Use internal tools for reporting and record-keeping.
• Document writing to support QA activities.

Skills

QA leadership

ISO9001

Root cause analysis

Documentation

Tools

QA tools

Job description

Are you interested in electronics? Do you have an eye for detail and a desire to get to the bottom of a problem? Do you like the idea of working across the organization? The role we are looking to fill reports to the Quality Manager, Nautel Limited, and is responsible for leading the day-to-day activities for our products and supporting the Quality Management System as per ISO9001 requirements.

The successful candidate can look forward to a variety of challenges including:

• Leading project quality assurance activities and be the QA point of contact;
• Developing and implementing quality assurance deliverables (plans, presentations, reports, analyses);
• Defining and implementing contract specific supplier quality requirements, supplier approval, development, milestones and monitoring;
• Training relevant staff to specific contract quality assurance requirements;
• Leading failure analysis and root cause investigation (internal and external), as well as developing and implementing corrective and preventative actions;
• Maintaining records, analysis of pertinent data and reporting on trends;
• Interaction and coordination at all levels, and across all functions;
• Maintenance of Nautel's ISO9001 Quality Management System by supporting day-to-day Production Operations and auditing of policies, procedures, methods and activities;
• Use of internal tools for reporting, analysis and record-keeping;
• Document writing supporting all of the above.