Quality Assurance Advisor

**About Austal**

Due to the Security Clearance required for this, applicants must be an Australian Citizen and eligible to obtain and uphold a Baseline Security Clearance.

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**About the Position**

This role, working within an established Quality system, will be responsible for leading and improving Quality Assurance activities within the Austal business, and where necessary, report, investigate and resolve any identified non-conformance. This busy role will also support the Operations Teams to deliver business Quality Assurance requirements, as well as assisting the business Quality Assurance Manager and the team of Quality Advisors in the day-to-day activities to ensure optimum functionality of the Q Management System.

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**Duties and Responsibilities**
- Ensuring ongoing Quality Assurance activities are conducted to a high standard in line with business requirements and are reported in a timely manner.
- Conduct Audits and Inspections in accordance with the Austal procedure and schedule.
- Conduct root cause analysis of Quality issues. Recommend and implement Corrective Actions to address Quality issues.
- To validate and verify Quality Assurance activities identified in Inspection Test Plans.
- Work together with Stakeholders to implement Austal’s Quality Assurance system requirements.
- Conduct Quality Assurance review of business process documentation prior to its release.
- Undertake analysis of Quality Assurance compliance data.
- Develop and issue Quality Assurance documentation to a high standard.
- Maintain and continually improve business best practice for Quality Assurance.
- Implement integrated and cost-effective team solutions for Quality non-conformance issues; including where required leading Corrective and Preventative action management.
- Build and maintain productive professional relationships with the teams delivering Quality products or services to clients.

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**Skills and Experience**
- Essential _
- An auditing qualification - Lead Auditor preferably.
- Demonstrated experience of monitoring and progressing Inspection Test Plans.
- Possess a proficient level of IT literacy, including the MS Office Suite (SharePoint & Excel etc).
- Solutions orientated, as well as results and goals driven, with an excellent attention to detail.
- Be strategic, analytical, and innovative, with solid problem-solving skills.
- Ability to quickly understand business processes across the business.
- A passion to work to improve Quality across the business.
- A confident, people-person with strong and highly effective verbal & written communication skills, and the ability to produce quality and succinct correspondence & reports
- Be a service orientated team-player with a “can do” attitude with demonstrated experience building and maintaining strong working-relationships with internal & external stakeholders alike
- Desirable_
- A Diploma or equivalent certification in Quality Assurance, Lean Management, Engineering or Project Management.
- Previous or related experience working within a Project focussed manufacturing environment with a demonstrated and strong desire to work within Quality Assurance.

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**Why Austal**
- Competitive compensation and benefits package.
- Professional development and training opportunities.
- A supportive and dynamic work environment.
- Opportunities for career advancement within our growing organisation.

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**What's on Offer?**
- Located in Henderson
- Permanent salaried position
- Nine-day fortnight with an RDO every second Friday
- Salary Sacrificing, Novated Leasing, Retailer discount, EAP, Insurance discounts.

Our global team is guided by a universal set of values that describe the focus of our efforts. Our goal is for all our decisions and actions to reflect these core values. We believe that putting our values into practice creates the greatest benefits for our shareholders, customers, employees, suppliers, and communities in which we serve.

Excellence - Customer Focus - Integrity - Team Work

At Austal we are committed to providing a safe and inclusive work environment for all. We believe that achieving greater diversity will enhance our operations and as such we actively encourage Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islanders, people of all backgrounds, ages, sexual orientation, and those with Disability to apply.