Total 63 Quality Assurance / Control job vacancies in Kansas City, Missouri

Responsible for planning and directing operations within delegated areas of responsibility. Provides first line supervision to a team of developmental and certified professional controllers. Supervises a staff of air traffic control specialist who are responsible for carrying out air traffic control assignments within a geographic area. Plans and assigns work to be accomplished by subordinate employees. Sets work priorities and schedules. Approves leave; gives advice, counsel, and instruction to employees on both work and administrative matters. Evaluates performance of employees and recommends performance ratings. Hears and resolves complaints from employees and refers group grievances and more serious unresolved complaints to a higher level manager. Identifies and arranges for developmental and other training needs of employees. Finds ways to improve production or increase the quality of the work directed. Adjusts staffing levels and work procedures to accommodate resource decisions made at higher levels. Recommends goals and objectives for the area and tracks accomplishments. Communicates and reinforces diversity and EEO policies and programs in all areas of responsibilities, including selection, training, and transfers. Supports and participates in the labor management partnership process, and fosters a work environment where all employees are treated in a fair and equitable manner.

• Serve as a Quality Assurance Specialist for munitions or munitions-related items in support of the acquisition planning, procurement, production, testing acceptance or storage of assigned items during the production/deployment life-cycle phase.
• Perform audit and analysis functions to include conformance, product and process audits at government and commercial facilities.
• Perform analysis of manufacturing and statistical process controls.
• Serve as a resource for supporting answers concerning audits and analysis of contractor operations.
• Provide necessary quality assurance (QA) support, policy, and guidance to government or commercial facilities.
• Assists in performance of Quality Assurance (QA) engineering portion of Government Owed Contractor Operating (GOCO) configuration management support activities.

• Serve as a Quality Assurance Specialist for munitions or munitions-related items in support of the acquisition planning, procurement, production, testing acceptance or storage of assigned items during the production/deployment life-cycle phase.
• Perform audit and analysis functions to include conformance, product and process audits at government and commercial facilities.
• Perform analysis of manufacturing and statistical process controls.
• Serve as a resource for supporting answers concerning audits and analysis of contractor operations.
• Provide necessary quality assurance (QA) support, policy, and guidance to government or commercial facilities.
• Assists in performance of Quality Assurance (QA) engineering portion of Government Owed Contractor Operating (GOCO) configuration management support activities.

This is a non-bargaining unit position.VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package: VA Nurse Total Rewards.

The incumbent will be a Nurse III Patient Safety Specialist in the Office of the Functional Champion (OFC), providing dedicated support to VA's Electronic Health Record Modernization - Integration Office (EHRM-IO), within the Office of the Deputy Secretary of VA (DEPSECVA). EHRM-IO is responsible for ensuring that VA successfully prepares for, deploys, and transitions to, a new electronic health record (EHR) system. EHRM-IO will ensure the modernized EHR system is positioned to meet VA needs, and enable seamless delivery of healthcare to Veterans and qualified beneficiaries.

The Patient Safety Specialist will assist in the development and implementation of patient safety programs. He/she will have a significant role on behalf of OFC in patient safety planning and will continue to support these activities as the program matures. The incumbent works closely with the patient safety leadership team. Ultimately, the incumbent is responsible for ensuring a safe optimization of the modernized EHR. This position will work with Contractors, the Office of the ADUSH for Quality, Safety, and Value, and other partners to:

• Evaluate and review the EHR implementation safety processes and confer with leadership to evaluate and initiate changes.
• Will be familiar with all aspects of the Patient Safety Program including reporting, analyzing data, creating reports, education, policy changes, and promoting a culture of safety for Veterans.

• Establish methods to monitor the patient safety management process and maintain appropriate documentation.
• Collaborate with EHRM-IO leadership and safety partners to assess and improve systems of care delivery

• Proactively engage and identify Serious Safety Events (SSEs) utilizing a standardized classification system and facilitate investigation and action plan development in response to SSEs.

• Review, report, data trend, and track patient safety related events and near miss events, risks and issues

• Facilitates Root Cause Analyses for SSEs across the health system and helps lead the organization in adopting and embracing a culture of high reliability and safety.

Directs a highly technical workforce, including functionally integrated teams of operational and support personnel, that provides air traffic control services throughout a geographic area. The work impacts the safe, orderly, and expeditious movement of aircraft as well as segments of the aviation industry.

Continuously reviews work processes to assure that results meet the agency's mission and the customer's needs, add value to facility services, and are efficiently achieved.

Provides training, coaching, and guidance to subordinates, and is responsible for team building throughout the facility.

Plans work to be accomplished by subordinates. Sets and adjusts long and short-term priorities. Approves leave; prepares schedules for completion of work; assigns work to subordinates based on priorities; evaluates work performance of subordinates ensuring equity of performance standards and ratings; gives advice on work and on administrative matters; makes decisions on work problems presented by subordinates; hears and resolves group grievances and serious employee complaints; effects disciplinary actions; recommends/ approves selections and transfers; recommends awards or bonuses; approves expenses for overtime, equipment, and personnel within the facility; and identifies and arranges for developmental and other training needs of subordinates.

Communicates and reinforces EEO policies and programs in all areas of responsibilities, including selection, training, and transfers. Supports and participates in the labor management partnership process and fosters a work environment where all employees are treated in a fair and equitable manner.

Meets or has contact with high-ranking military and civilian managers, representatives of the aviation industry, key staff of public interest groups, union representatives, local government managers, professional organizations, and contractors.

The Air Traffic Manager reports to a General Manager and/or Assistant General Manager.

• Use only approved methods, procedures and techniques in job functions and in operation of aircraft and stresses standardization of job functions. Conducts ground school on aircraft systems in support of flight units.
• Applies the latest methods and techniques of instruction obtained through attendance at formal instructor training courses and seminars.
• Maintains liaison with aviation safety inspectors who conduct the Air Carrier Airmen Certification Program, and serves in an advisory and consulting capacity on job functions in that specialty.
• Recommends improvements and revisions to management on existing approved courses and the overall training program.
• Develops courses, outlines, and lesson plans necessary to conduct the ground training phase. Develops and analyzes tests to assure the objectives of the course are met.
• Familiarizes students with the latest regulations and requirements affecting the aviation safety inspector's job functions.
• Standardizes the inspector's performance, proficiency and timing relative to compliance with existing job functions procedures.
• Evaluates and reports the capabilities and performance of each student. Also reports areas in which further study and training are necessary.
• May be assigned responsibilities as course manager of one or more courses administered by the branch. May also be temporarily assigned to special projects to accomplish work as may be required.
• The Academy instructor has responsibility which requires highly specialized training, significant managerial skills, specific technical qualifications, and detailed proficiency equal to the highest nonsupervisory grade level in the field that significantly represents the occupational workforce.
• Possesses a high degree of human relations and communications skills which enables the individual to function as an agency role model for both new and current FAA employees.
• Possesses the skills to be able to understand and convert procedural requirements into overall function design of the FAA Academy's CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE to provide reliable and accurate course development and instruction. Maintains technical knowledge and currency equivalent to that of the highest level full performance specialist.
• The incumbent must have an in depth knowledge of the FAA Academy training process as it relates to the Aviation Safety Inspector work force job functions. Required to maintain a high level of proficiency in the operation of high performance aircraft used in air transportation; the effectiveness with which the branch training programs are coordinated and implemented will depend upon the aeronautical knowledge and proficiency, while maintaining expertise in commercial and/or general aviation state-of-the-art training programs.
• Provides support to the management team in the preparation and administration of the budget; coordination of staff training and travel administration; program management and planning; workload scheduling; space utilization, resource management; security; property management - accountable items; reports and records as required.
• When performing the duties of team coordinator, the employee will coordinate resources, such as, rooms and supplies; work schedules; T&A's; travel orders; suspenses; and, budget inputs.

*Incumbent must hold an airline transport pilot certificate or hold a commercial pilot certificate with multiengine land and instrument ratings and be eligible for an airline transport pilot certificate.