Senior Quality Assurance Officer at NRF National Research Foundation

About the position

Postion Summary:
The Senior Quality Assurance Officer shall lead the SARAO Quality team, comprising quality assurance and quality control personnel, and be responsible for delivery of key quality related objectives.

• Establish SARAO Quality Management System (QMS) and proceduresLead the quality function and the quality performance plan, including transformation initiatives
• Implement all QMS requirements as prescribed in the Quality Manual and QMS procedures
• Implement quality related document management through the SARAO Configuration Management and Information Management systems
• Lead auditing for internal QM audits, preparation of audit reports and close out
• Develop, implement, review and maintain approved quality processes, including QA Plans and procedures, ISO requirements and procedures, and improve as per ISO specifications
• Manage the development, evolutions and delivery of the different components to guarantee the availability of the Management system to all SARAO staff
• Maintain certification accreditation and ensure ongoing engagement and follow-up on specific engineering issues with relevant managers
• Ensure that customer requirements are properly taken into consideration and fulfilled
• Ensure that tender and bids for projects are appropriately managed (organization, process, competences, …), and that the products and services delivered meet the contract and the standard of quality
• Monitoring of non-conformance, with relevant trend analysis (if possible) and improvement (if needed)
• Participation in design reviews and provision of relevant input related to design, materials, workmanship, fabrication and verification processes, and all other characteristics that could degrade product system quality
• Issuing and Actioning of reports, QA Audits, Engineering Changes, Deviations / Waivers follow-ups
• Inspection of deliverables and auditing of build histories to verify test and as-built data and drawing approvals

• Bachelors Degree / Advanced Diploma / NQF 7

• 8-8 years

• Bachelor’s Degree or Advanced Diploma in Quality Management NQF Level 7
• Certification in Quality MS ISO 9001 internal auditor certificateLead Auditor certificate (compulsory)