Quality Assurance Specialist – Materials Management

GLC Government Services is seeking a qualified Quality Assurance Specialist – Materials Management to work a government contract at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland.

• The quality assurance support services enable MMESD to maintain regulatory readiness, improve operational consistency, document compliance, and implement corrective actions across departmental functions.

Pay: $42.00 per hour

Schedule: 8 hours per day between 7:30 am -5:00 pm- Monday – Friday, excluding holidays

Job Duties

• Maintain a QA work plan and calendar covering routine audits, inspections, document review cycles, training follow-up, committee support, and leadership reporting.
• Review, edit, coordinate, route, and track SOPs, forms, logs, validation documents, and related records.
• Conduct scheduled and unscheduled inspections of MMESD work areas, storage locations, environmental services spaces, support rooms, warehouses, staging areas, and designated off-site areas
• Prepare and maintain inspection tools, tracer tools, evidence files, action logs, and response packages that support readiness for Joint Commission, internal reviews, safety rounds, infection prevention assessments, and other oversight activities.
• Document observations, nonconformances, and trends; assign and track action items; coordinate due dates; verify implementation; and document closure evidence.
• Collect, reconcile, and analyze departmental performance data, including audit results, complaints, incident reports, service metrics, training completion, environmental findings, equipment checks, and other operational indicators.
• Prepare meeting materials, issue logs, minutes, summaries, and follow-up items for MMESD leadership meetings.
• Review occurrence reports, customer complaints, quality events, and observed process failures; identify probable causes

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in quality, healthcare administration, life sciences, industrial engineering, public health, or a related field is preferred; equivalent relevant experience may be considered if otherwise acceptable to the Government.
• Experience: Minimum three (3) years of progressively responsible quality assurance, compliance, accreditation, process improvement, or operational audit experience in a hospital, healthcare, regulated service, or similarly controlled environment.
• Knowledge: Familiarity with healthcare quality systems, SOP management, internal audits, corrective action processes, infection prevention or environmental controls, and regulatory/accreditation frameworks such as Joint Commission, OSHA, AHE, or cGMP concepts applicable to the work.
• Skills: Strong technical writing, spreadsheet and reporting skills, attention to detail, document control discipline, ability to analyze trends, and ability to communicate professionally with frontline staff and leadership.