Procurement QA Representative

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**Your role within the team.**

**Responsibilities**:
The Quality Assurance Specialist/Procurement Quality Assurance Representative “PQAR” reports to the Project Quality Assurance Manager. He/She is responsible for:

- Leading and conducting of the suppliers’ audits as assigned by the Project QA Manager.
- Reviewing EQR packages, bidders list, RFP, bids, POs.
- Planning, performing and documenting surveillance activities on a supplier by verifying and
witnessing/observing their fabrication, inspection and testing and reviewing supporting
documentation and records to ensure that specified requirements are met and maintained.
- Other tasks as assigned by the Project QA Manager.

**Conducting Supplier Audits**
- Preparing and issuing supplier audit plans,
- Conducting supplier audit,
- Preparing and issuing audit reports, and populating audit checklists,
- Raising Supplier Corrective Action Request SCAR(s),
- Issuing Supplier Audit Qualification/Acceptance Letter to suppliers, and informing Procurement,
- Ensuring the approved suppliers list is updated to reflect the audit results.

**Surveillance Execution Activities**
- Reviewing and becoming familiar with the pertinent technical and design requirements required to perform Quality Surveillance activities,
- Preparing and issuing the Surveillance Plan (SP),
- Performing Quality Surveillance on assigned PO as per the approved SP,
- Reviewing, surveying, witnessing, and monitoring the quality of Sub-Contractor’s work and reviewing Sub-Contractor’s QC inspection results. This includes evaluation and analysis of records, methods, procedures, processes, and any additional verification activities required to ensure that the work has been completed in accordance with the appropriate documentation and accepted procedures and that the results have been properly recorded,
- Verification of qualification records and internal training of all welders prior witnessing weld inspections. Records demonstrating the welders had been trained for difficult weld joint geometry shall be verified on ongoing basis; Supplier QA program evaluation/implementation for Counterfeit, Fraudulent and Substandard Items (CFSI) requirements will be conducted to ensure that: Supply chain documentation controls and mitigates the potential risk of exposure to CFSls; Supplier personnel understand the significance of exposure to CFSls and is trained to understand potential risks with reference to CFSls; Supplier QA Program specifies the responsibilities of personnel regarding CFSI and reporting any CFSI-related occurrences; Purchase orders and contracts placed to the supplier’s sub-contractors contain the appropriate technical and quality standards, documentation, inspection and acceptance requirements and control clauses that prohibit the delivery of CFSl; and
- Issue and follow up the Supplier Corrective Action Requests based on the Quality Surveillance findings until closure;
- Liaising with Engineering during the life of the PO as needed on issues requiring technical interpretation/guidance in the performance of QS activities to confirm acceptability of QA requirements,
- Generating and submitting all the records related to the quality surveillance activities (Significant correspondence, QS Plans, QS Records, etc.) for filing
- Issuing Quality Surveillance Report and Quality Assurance Release,
- Maintaining and monitoring the validity of qualification of all suppliers with open PO.

**Qualifications**
- University Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, with experience in the nuclear field,
- Minimum of 5 years practical working experience in a relevant nuclear field,
- Working knowledge of CSA N285.0-23, CSA N299-16 series, CSA N286-12, CSA N286.7-16 and ASME codes,
- Advanced computing skills and functionality with standard Microsoft Office programs (e.g., Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint).

**Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities**
- Must be familiar with Nuclear projects and engineering/technical terminology, Nuclear Canada objectives, work methods, processes, procedures, and organization,
- Strong oral and written skills to interact with internal staff and external stakeholders,
- Ability to handle several audits and POs concurrently and works well under deadline pressures.

**About AtkinsRéalis**

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