SUPERVISORY QUALITY ASSURANCE SPECIALIST (TITLE 32) with Security Clearance

Duties As a SUPERVISORY QUALITY ASSURANCE SPECIALIST, GS-1910-12, you will plan, organize, and oversee the activities of the Quality Assurance Division. Plan work to be accomplished by subordinates. Make decisions on work problems presented by subordinate personnel. Manage, review and develop maintenance policy, advising supervisors and employees on both general policy and specific maintenance matters.

Maintenance Standardization Evaluation Program (MSEP): Manage the Maintenance Standardization Evaluation Program (MSEP), which provides the Maintenance Group Commander and maintenance managers the visibility to assess and improve the proficiency of the work force, facilitate continuous process improvement, and provide the customer with high quality aircraft and components on time. Manage critical assessment programs such as; Unit Self Inspections, Maintenance Standardization, Operational Readiness, Unit Compliance Inspections, and Staff Assistance Visits (SAVs).

Manage the organization's quality program and elements of the program to gauge compliance with directives, assess established processes, identify deficiencies, implement corrective measures, and improve processes to enhance mission effectiveness and efficiency. Ensure personnel use proper data collection techniques and procedures for evaluation, inspection and audit programs and a number of related databases and spreadsheets to capture and catalog data elements for trending, cross-tell, and benchmarking.

Direct and control the management of the Technical Order Improvement Program and Suggestion Program for the wing. Manage critical compliance and configuration management programs. Manage the Aircraft Weight and Balance, aircraft and equipment impoundment, chaffing, aircraft hot refuel/aircraft-to-aircraft, Product Quality Deficiency Report (QDR), and Over-G/Over-speed analysis programs. Oversees and approves wing depot-level assistance requests. Manage the Time Compliance Technical Orders (TCTO) and One Time Inspections (OTI) process.

Represent and speak for the Maintenance Group Commander with representatives of the National Guard Bureau, System Program Office (SPO) and internally within the Maintenance Complex on issues relating to maintenance processes, procedures, and policies. Serve as the primary technical consultant to production area managers on issues related to quality, military specification, and international quality standards such as the International Organization for Standardization.

Manage and plan a quality assurance program using a variety of accepted quality assurance procedures such as statistical computations and data collections. (17) Skill in using various computer and software applications to include but not limited to: word processing programs, spreadsheets, email services, databases and database management. Perform other duties as assigned. Requirements Conditions of employment

• NATIONAL GUARD MEMBERSHIP IS REQUIRED. If you are not sure you are eligible for military membership, please contact a National Guard recruiter prior to applying for this position.
• This is an excepted service position that requires membership in a compatible military assignment in the employing state's National Guard, required prior to the effective date of placement.
• Selectee will be required to wear the military uniform.
• Acceptance of an excepted service position constitutes concurrence with these requirements as a condition of employment.
• Applicants who are not currently a member of the National Guard must be eligible for immediate membership and employment in the National Guard in the military grade listed in this announcement.
• Males born after 31 December 1959 must be registered for Selective Service.
• Federal employment suitability as determined by a background investigation.
• May be required to successfully complete a trial period.
• Participation in direct deposit is mandatory.
• For positions requiring the operation of motor vehicles, candidates must have a valid state driver's license for the state in which they live or are principally employed.
• For positions requiring a security clearance (Secret or Top Secret) the applicant must possess or be able to obtain a clearance within one year of appointment.
• Irregular and/or overtime compensatory hours may be required to support operational requirements or contingencies or may be required to work hours outside of the normal duty day.

Qualifications Military Grades: E-9 SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE : Must have 36 months or 1-year specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade, to include experience, education, or training involving a thorough knowledge of product or range of products involved, the manufacturing methods and techniques, special processes, test, and performance requirements; and skill in developing plans and programs; experience possessed by an expert in specialization able to give technical direction to otherwise competent workers; experience determining operations when difficult and questionable phases of malfunctions are found; experience which required significant and concrete work accomplishments (i.e., special projects, working groups, or detailing assignments) involving interpersonal contacts in a quality assurance or related field; experience in dealing with management principles and supervisory responsibility for the function required by type of position to be filled and the organization involved; experience in managing the function of the work to be performed; experience which includes leading, directing and assigning work of personnel.

Education Education Requirement: None Additional information If you are a male applicant who was born after 12/31/1959 and are required to register under the Military Selective Service Act, the Defense Authorization Act of 1986 requires that you be registered or you are not eligible for appointment in this agency ( ).