Compliance Assurance Manager

Job Title: Compliance Assurance Manager

Job Summary:
This position is a critical subcontractor on the N3B Los Alamos LLCC team and will be providing compliance assurance and oversight in support of the drilling, well maintenance, groundwater and surface water monitoring programs at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Duties/Responsibilities:
•    Ensures compliance with contract, applicable regulatory requirements, industry codes/standards, and client’s established programs, procedures, and standards.
•    Assesses and maintains compliance metrics regarding contractual, regulatory and operational elements while striving for continuous improvement.
•    Supports the management of corrective actions in the client’s Compliance Assurance System and program.
•    Leads or participates in routine compliance assessments or surveillances and generates reports for management.
•    Leads analysis, modification, and resolution of technical compliance issues and general compliance and technical support activities. This includes supporting management in the resolution of corrective actions in the client’s Corrective Action System.
•    Assists management in the preparation and reviews of deliverables and project documentation for consistency, accuracy and adherence to the contract.
•    Perform technical and compliance reviews of a wide array of engineering and technical deliverables.
•    Provides effective routine reporting to support contract deliverables.
•    Supports achievement of contract schedules and commitments.
•    Maintains compliance records.
•    Conducts trending analysis, recognizing potential risks, and communicates them to management.
•    Interfaces with the client’s quality assurance personnel in a collaborative and partnering effort to ensure compliance and integration of all programs.
•    Supports compliance with client’s training requirements for all employees.
•    Fosters a healthy quality assurance culture through open feedback, honest and proactive communication, and lessons learned.
•    Other duties as assigned.

Required Skills/Abilities: 
•    Risk management
•    Problem solving
•    Collaborative
•    Effective communication
•    Active listener
•    Integrity and ethics
•    Conflict resolution

Education and Experience:
•    Bachelor’s degree in technical discipline.
•    A solid understanding of the integration, flow down and monitoring of corporate, contractual and regulatory compliance requirements.
•    Excellent knowledge of reporting procedures and record keeping.
•    Preferred experience in a DOE environment, including performing or operating under a DOE quality program, specifically DOE Order 414.1D (SD330) and NQA-1.
•    Familiarity with DOE Contractor Assurance and Corrective Action Management Systems.
•    Preferred training in causal analysis and risk management systems.
•    Ability to obtain a DOE Q Clearance.
•    Must possess a valid driver’s license with a clean driving record without restrictions.

Working Conditions:
The physical and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Physical Demands: 
•    Physical demand requirements are more than those for sedentary work.
•    The employee exerts up to 30 pounds of force occasionally and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or negligible amount of force constantly to move objects.
•    The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to handle or feel and reach with hands and arms.
•    The employee is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
•    Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and distance vision.
•    While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. 
•    The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet to moderate.

Work Environment: 
This position will be mostly indoors with periods of working outdoors, and at times may include walking and hiking several miles while carrying equipment weighing approximately 30 lbs.

This description is not intended to be, nor should it be construed as an all-inclusive list of responsibilities, skills or working conditions associated with the position. It is intended to accurately reflect the activities and requirements of the position, but duties may be added, deleted, or modified, as necessary. This description does not constitute a written or implied contract of employment.