
Quality Integration Specialist, Sr.
Oak Ridge, TNFull-time$95–158K/yrSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 1w ago
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Job overview
The Quality Integration Sr. Specialist strengthens the effectiveness, maturity, and alignment of the ACO OR Quality Management System. The role conducts audits and assessments, analyzes systemic risks, supports corrective actions, and contributes to enterprise improvement initiatives. It partners across operational, engineering, and mission organizations to improve process consistency, regulatory compliance, and QMS performance through risk-based decision-making and sustainable improvements.
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Position Summary
The Quality Integration Sr. Specialist plays a key role in strengthening the effectiveness, maturity, and alignment of the ACO OR Quality Management System (QMS). Serving as a technical expert within the Quality Integration organization, this role drives cross-functional integration, conducts assessments, analyzes systemic risks, and supports enterprise improvement initiatives that enhance process consistency, regulatory compliance, and overall QMS performance. The Sr. Specialist applies deep knowledge of quality systems, auditing, process governance, and problem-solving methodologies to enable informed, risk-based decision making across operational, engineering, and mission organizations. Through collaboration, gap identification, and support of corrective actions, this role helps implement improvements that are compliant, sustainable, and aligned with mission needs.
What You Will Do
The Sr. Specialist supports the execution of the site’s Quality Integration strategy by contributing to audits, integrated assessments, performance reviews, and governance activities, while preparing schedules, analyses, and deliverables that inform program metrics and leadership reporting. The role provides technical recommendations on systemic issues and readiness indicators, supports organizational change initiatives that elevate QMS capability, and contributes to team development through coaching and subject matter expertise. It conducts audits and assessments to verify compliance and process effectiveness; develops assessment criteria; reviews objective evidence; and communicates results to stakeholders. Partnering with process owners, the specialist helps implement new or revised standards and controls while applying Lean, PDCA, root cause, and structured problem-solving methods to advance sustainable performance improvement. The role also contributes to QMS dashboards and analytics, identifies recurring risks through data trend analysis, supports root cause evaluations, and ensures corrective actions address underlying drivers. By coordinating cross-functional improvements, the specialist strengthens process stability, risk reduction, and alignment with enterprise quality objectives. Additional responsibilities include preparing materials for audits and readiness reviews, maintaining QMS documentation and governance structures, escalating quality concerns appropriately, and promoting a culture grounded in safety, transparency, disciplined operations, and principle‑based learning.
We'd Love to Hear from Candidates With
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Bachelor’s degree in engineering, physical sciences, or a related technical field
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Five years of experience in quality assurance, systems engineering, assessments, or process improvement
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Demonstrated experience in audits, assessments, data analysis, or process evaluations
A Successful Candidate Also Brings
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Master’s degree in engineering, systems engineering, or a related technical discipline
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Experience supporting enterprise-level or multi‑year improvement initiatives
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Certifications such as Lead Auditor, Lean, or Six Sigma
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Two years of nuclear (ASME NQA‑1) experience
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Two years of manufacturing experience
Pay
Estimated Starting Base Salary Range: $95,012 - 158,353. This position is incentive eligible. Centrus considers several factors when extending job offers, including but not limited to candidates’ key skills, relevant work experience, and education/training/certifications. While the posted range reflects the anticipated hiring range for this position, compensation above the range may be considered for candidates with exceptional qualifications and directly relevant experience.
In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire.
This position will require a pre-employment background check and a pre-employment drug test.
Centrus Energy and all subsidiaries shall abide by the applicable legal requirements. We prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals based on their status as protected veterans or individuals with disabilities and prohibit discrimination against all individuals based on their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin.
This position requires the successful candidate to obtain and maintain a Q security clearance. Candidates for positions requiring a security clearance are required to be tested for the absence of any illegal drug as defined in 10 CFR 707.4 prior to an offer of employment being made. In addition, once employe, employees will become part of a random drug testing program and may also be tested in the event of any incident causing injury or causing damage to property, or if it is determined that there is a reasonable suspicion the employee is under the influence of drugs or alcohol. This position will require preemployment background check on the part of the Company and in order to receive a Q security clearance, a background investigation by the Federal government. Subsequent Federal government reinvestigations may be required.
Centrus Energy Corp. is an Equal Opportunity Employer
Job Identification: 833
Job Category: Centrus Job Family
Job Schedule: Full time
Degree Level: Bachelor's Degree
Job Shift: Day
How this job compares
Set against the 5,057 open Quality Assurance jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 28, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$95–158K/yr
- Tennessee median$86–149K/yr22 salary ranges
- US median$88–148K/yr2,303 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $127K, is 7% above the Tennessee median midpoint ($118K) — in the middle half of Quality Assurance salary ranges in Tennessee.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 78 open Quality Assurance jobs in Tennessee and 5,057 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Tennessee
- Quick Hire Staffing5 open
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Quality Assurance postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (3,913 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 1,885 of the 5,057 open Quality Assurance jobs (37%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 28, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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