Responsibilities
Peraton is seeking a Sr. Process Improvement Specialist who will support program and project managers and respective teams to implement organizational processes and best practices.
Responsibilities Include:
- Performs process and product evaluations (audits) to ensure compliance with DMI and project established policies, processes, procedures and applicable standards (ISO, CMMI-DEV, CMMI-SVC, ITIL, PMBoK).
- Must have experience and been directly involved in implementing the following frameworks: ISO 20000 and 27001, ISO 9001:2008, CMMI-DEV/CMMI-SVC Level 3, and ITIL.
- Must have experience training on the above named frameworks.
- Evaluate software development and service performance and deliverables against process documentation, project schedule, and quality standards.
- Performs a variety of technical and administrative activities related to the function of QA (auditing), including, but not limited to, scheduling, checklist development, report writing, facilitating root cause/lessons learned analysis, and internal/external presentations.
- Analyzes, compiles, and reports on findings of non-compliance and provides recommendations for improvement.
- Tracks and escalates unresolved non-compliance issues and corrective and preventative action plans to closure.
- Collects metrics, analyzes, and reports various measures to project manager/team and Corporate QA.
- Maintain the process assets library for the company, including all process definitions, templates, and document samples.
- Provide training for DMI employees for CMMI, ISO, and ITIL frameworks as well as project management best practices.
- Interfaces with external and internal customers to ensure project quality work products have been provided.
- Supports Corporate QA initiatives as appropriate (i.e., CMMI Level 3 assessment, ISO re-certifications, etc.); may participate as a SCAMPI Team Member during SCAMPI B/A maturity level assessments, and ISO Internal Auditor. Should have hands-on experience as a project team member or real-life understanding of software development, support desk, and/or maintenance and operation type projects (i.e., requirements analysis, testing, software development, help desk staff, etc.).
Additional Responsibilities:
- Supports Innovation Acceleration lead in optimizing TDL processing activities to enable Continuous Improvement and Continuous Delivery.
- Analyze current development procedures and standards to identify inefficiencies.
- Identify systemic issues related with scrap or inefficient processes and determine effective solutions to lower costs, increase productivity, quality and safety.
- Evaluates development processes by designing and conducting evaluations; applying knowledge of product design, fabrication, assembly, tooling, and materials; conferring with equipment vendors; soliciting observations from operators.
- Assures product and process quality by designing inspection methods; testing finished- product and process capabilities; establishing standards; validating development processes. Receives metrics from Mission Assurance on premature failures of fielded components or systems.
- Provides process improvement analysis and recommended solutions to premature failure of fielded components or systems to design team for inclusion on subsequent variants.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
- BS 8-10, MS 6-8, PhD 3-5
- Degree in Data Analytics or STEM relevant field
- AGILE/SCRUM certified
- U.S. Citizenship
- Experience in Design, Development and Research
- Effective oral and written communicator
- Proficient with MS Office(Excel, Word, Outlook, etc.)
- Experienced with software and hardware automations to accelerate delivery
Desired Qualifications:
- Prototyping experience
- Space and Cyber operations Fluent
- Well-versed in concepts of OSI/DoD Network Layers/functions
- Joint Operations Planning Experience
- Knowledgable in Kill chain Analysis
- Use of Atlassian JIRA tools, software used to guide and manage project software/hardware development and tracking and resolution of issues.
- Familiarity with C++, Python, MATLAB programming languages.
Peraton Overview
Peraton drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted and highly differentiated national security solutions and technologies that keep people safe and secure. Peraton serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies across the intelligence, space, cyber, defense, civilian, health, and state and local markets. Every day, our employees do the can’t be done, solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers.
Target Salary Range
$66,000 – $106,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.
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An Equal Opportunity Employer including Disability/Veteran.