NQA-1 Quality Program Architect - Senior QA Engineer

The Nuclear Company; Colombia; On-site; COP 403,414,000 - 476,762,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation packages

401k with company match

Medical, dental, vision plans

Generous vacation policy, plus hollid​

Job summary

The Nuclear Company is hiring a QA Engineer to build out the NQA-1 quality program, partnering with Engineering, Procurement, Construction, and Licensing to draft procedures and drive them to approval. The role evolves into core quality engineering—reviewing ITPs, setting acceptance criteria, and placing witness points as work proceeds.

Reporting to the Senior Manager of Quality with stop-work authority, you will help shape a fleet-scale quality program for a fast-growing nuclear-energy startup.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or 10+ years field experience in the discipline.
• 3+ years working under ASME NQA-1 and/or 10 CFR 50 Appendix B programs, with demonstrated procedure development.
• Strong technical writing and cross-functional coordination; pull SME input and drive documents through multi-reviewer approval.
• Ability to qualify to governing TNC procedures.

Responsibilities

• Generate the NQA‑1 program cross‑functionally — author and develop Tier‑3 implementing procedures with every department.
• Author or provide SME input to procedures, records, and technical documents in the assigned discipline.
• Review inspection and test procedures and acceptance criteria for nuclear systems and components; verify design outputs meet specified requirements.
• Identify inspection requirements and the applicable codes and standards, with references; extract acceptance criteria from design with quantitative limits, values, and tolerances.
• Set witness and hold points in inspection and test plans.
• Support QA plans and audit artifacts; maintain readiness and metrics.

Skills

NQA-1

Cross-functional

Technical Writing

Quality Assurance

Audit/QA

Education

Engineering degree

Tools

Excel

Power BI

Job description

The Nuclear Company is hiring a QA Engineer to build out the NQA-1 quality program, partnering with Engineering, Procurement, Construction, and Licensing to draft procedures and drive them to approval. The role evolves into core quality engineering—reviewing ITPs, setting acceptance criteria, and placing witness points as work proceeds.

Reporting to the Senior Manager of Quality with stop-work authority, you will help shape a fleet-scale quality program for a fast-growing nuclear-energy startup.