Employment Type: Full-Time
FSLA: Salary/Exempt
Division: Field Operations
Department: Quality
Reports to: Regional Quality Manager
Supervisory Duties: No
Salary Range: $139,000 - $159,000
The Quality Manager (QM) will collaborate with several project teams throughout the lifecycle of their assigned projects. Their main responsibility is to support and be a technical and field resource for project teams. This dynamic role includes direct correspondence with the project teams, client/owner, manufacturers, design partners, and other stakeholders while working closely with trade partners to establish quality expectations and ensure execution of site-specific quality management plan (SSQMP).
Responsibilities / Essential Functions
Serves multiple projects with varying degrees of support based upon the site-specific needs, which may include:
- SSQMP: Work with project teams to review and finalize their site-specific quality management plan.
- Lessons Learned: Facilitate lessons learned process with assigned project teams. Provide guidance regarding lessons learned review and application during development of SSQMP and preoperational meetings.
- Training: Provide training for project teams and subcontractors on quality initiatives, processes, and software/tool utilization (Procore/Templates/Guides).
- Field Checks: Review of project documents and specifications to aid in development and execution of field checklist, conduct field walks and review of on-going work, support building plans for tracking and resolving deficiencies (including third party, owner/architect/engineer, and internal items).
- Constructability: Participate in constructability review process as directed.
- Mock-Ups/Initial Installs: Work with project teams to develop tracking and documentation of both mock-ups and initial installations. Help to identify high-risk and repeatable scopes/assemblies, review installation instructions and requirements, and help plan a successful installation to be used as a quality guidepost for the work.
- Quality Pre-Operational Meetings: Track and support teams in the development of Quality Pre-Operational Meetings (agendas, document review and compilation, coordination with subject matter experts, etc.). Participate in meetings for high-risk scopes, or as otherwise directed.
- Material Verification: Assist with the review and verification of incoming materials prior to use on site.
- Punch List / Turnover: Work with the team to develop a mutually understood plan, inclusive of all stakeholders, for Punch List, Closeout, and Turnover. Support both the documentation and field efforts to successfully resolve outstanding issues.
Additional Responsibilities include:
- Subject Matter Expertise (SME): Based upon the background and specialty education of the candidate: participate in the development of scope-specific templates and quality plans, participate in meetings and working sessions related to their expertise, assist with the review in-field of specialty items as directed.
- Corporate Quality Initiatives / Process Improvement: Actively note feedback and lessons learned and identify items that could help improve processes and reduce rework. Participate in working sessions, cross-departmental meetings, presentations, etc. as directed to help implement positive change.
- Contracts and Specifications: Review contracts and specifications for quality related language to help project teams understand requirements.
Key Skills
- Strong communication skills.
- Relies on extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
- Understanding of the Three Phases of Control.
- Ability to effectively manage diverse groups and teams, including outside testing agencies or subject matter experts/specialists.
- Strong initiative and problem-solving abilities.
- Ability to multi-task and self-prioritize.
- Motivated and driven.
- Ability to work in a team environment with a primary focus on collaboration.
Required Experience
- Requires a bachelor’s degree in engineering, architecture, construction management, engineering technology, building construction, building science or related field.
- 7-10 years as a Superintendent, Quality Control manager, Project Manager, Project Engineer, Construction Manager, Architect, Consulting Engineer, Quality Inspector or similar.
- Must be familiar with the requirements of EM 385-1-1 and have experience in the areas of hazard identification, safety compliance and sustainability.
- Experience leading and directing the work of others.
- Nice to Have:
- Construction Quality Management for Contractors (CQM-C) Certification.
