Quality Control-Assurance Manager

Socket.dev; Colorado Springs (CO); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

401K

Employee benefits

Job summary

Socket.dev seeks a QA Manager to lead contractor quality control for MDA PMSCO warehouse and receiving operations in Colorado Springs. The role develops and maintains the QCP and Quality Program Plan, ensuring data quality, documentation accuracy, and safe, compliant activities across storage, packing, and shipping.

The ideal candidate will hold an active SECRET clearance (or ability to obtain) and be a U.S.

Qualifications

• Active SECRET clearance or ability to obtain one.
• U.S. citizenship or legal permanent resident status as required.

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and maintain the PMSCO QCP and Quality Program Plan.
• Establish and manage a quality-control inspection system for warehouse and receiving operations.
• Develop inspection schedules, checklists, sampling methods, and quality records.
• Conduct periodic quality inspections based on workload and risk.
• Inspect warehouse operations at core locations including Colorado Springs.

Skills

Quality control

Inspection systems

Data accuracy

DoD compliance

Job description

Leads contractor quality control for Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Property Management and Supply Chain Operations (PMSCO) warehouse and receiving-area requirements. Develops, implements, maintains, and improves the Quality Control Plan (QCP) and Quality Program Plan.

Provides independent internal oversight of warehouse, receiving, shipping, storage, Packaging, Handling, Storage, and Transportation (PHS&T), Government property accountability, inventory, safety, documentation, and storage-capacity activities. Evaluates compliance with Performance Work Statement (PWS) requirements, identifies performance risks and deficiencies, drives corrective action, and verifies corrective-action effectiveness. This position does not provide operational supervision of warehouse personnel.

As required by our governmental client, this position requires an activeSECRET clearance to be considered or the ability to attain one

A government contract requires that this position be restricted to U.S. citizens or legal permanent residents. You must provide documentation that you are a U.S. citizen or legal permanent resident to qualify.

Compensation & Benefits:

Estimated Starting Salary Range forQA Manager: **Although this is not yet an approved position, we are accepting applications for this future and anticipated need. The applicable salary range will be posted promptly upon award of the contract and once funding for the position has been determined. No offer will be extended prior to posting the applicable salary range.**

Full time benefits include Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K and other possible benefits as provided.Benefits are subject to change with or without notice.

QA Manager Responsibilities Include:

• Develop, implement, maintain, and continuously improve the PMSCO QCP and Quality Program Plan.
• Establish and manage a quality-control inspection system for warehouse and receiving operations, including data quality, documentation accuracy, packing, shipping, receiving timeliness, and storage-capacity management.
• Develop inspection schedules, checklists, sampling methods, observation protocols, acceptance criteria, and quality records.
• Conduct periodic and targeted quality inspections based on workload, mission risk, performance trends, Government direction, audits, and operational changes.
• Independently inspect warehouse and receiving operations at core locations, including the National Capital Region, Colorado Springs, Huntsville, and Dahlgren.
• Verify that warehouse and receiving activities are safe, secure, clean, organized, environmentally compliant, and mission ready.
• Assess receiving processes, including delivery validation, property inspection, discrepancy documentation, overage/shortage management, and establishment of records in the Inventory Management System (IMS).
• Review receiving documentation and transactions for accuracy, completeness, timeliness, traceability, tagging, storage, and accountable-property compliance.
• Evaluate warehouse storage, location control, material handling, facility monitoring, packing, loading, unloading, shipping, and property movement.
• Verify proper use and serviceability of material-handling equipment, including racks, pallets, forklifts, hand trucks, scales, tie-downs, banding equipment, and wrapping equipment.
• Assess storage-capacity management and ensure customer requirements—such as size, weight, cube, quantity, special handling, environmental controls, security, maintenance, and support equipment—are documented and considered.
• Inspect packing, shipping, and transportation-support processes for procedural compliance, safety, schedule performance, economical transportation selection, and required approvals for expedited shipping.
• Review outbound shipping documentation, including DD Form 1149, commercial-carrier records, MILAIR documentation, shipment notifications, tracking data, and damage/discrepancy reports.
• Conduct quality reviews of records and transactions in IMS, BMC Helix, ELMS, the DoD IUID Registry, PIEE, DLA ETIDS, Kinetic Service Request database, and other approved systems.
• Evaluate Logistics Product Data accuracy, completeness, and timeliness; identify data anomalies, recurring errors, missing documentation, and risks to ELMS accountable-property records.
• Review property identification and tagging for compliance with approved procedures and MIL-STD-130, including required asset identifiers, UIIs, barcodes, and “U.S. Government Property” markings.
• Assess inventory-management performance for initial inventories, annual capital-asset inventories, biennial inventories, Inventory by Exception activities, reconciliations, inventory reports, and contract-closeout inventories.
• Review inventory discrepancies, unaccounted-for property, and Lost, Theft, Damaged, or Destroyed (LTDD) actions for compliance with notification, investigation, documentation, reporting, and records-update requirements.
• Evaluate LTDD, FLIPL, DLA ETIDS, PIEE, and relief-of-responsibility documentation for completeness, accuracy, traceability, and compliance.
• Review excess-property, transfer, reutilization, warranty and maintenance returns, recycling, demilitarization, and