Data Center Quality Lead - EPC Construction

Tec Group International; Illinois; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Tec Group International is seeking a Quality & Commissioning Manager to lead the Project Quality Management System across a major data center EPC project. You will supervise the discipline quality team, drive risk-based assurance, and ensure compliance, nonconformity handling and readiness to the Project QCx Manager.

The role requires extensive experience in data center construction, strong leadership, and the ability to coordinate with delivery teams while maintaining QA milestones and turnover

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Quality or related discipline; equivalent quality-management experience may be accepted.
• Typically 10+ years in project quality assurance/control for complex EPC or design-build construction, including 5+ years leading quality teams.
• Required experience in data center or mission-critical construction across multiple disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement and maintain the Project Quality Plan, discipline inspection strategy, audit program and quality objectives.
• Lead CSA, MEP and AFO Quality Engineers and coordinate subcontractor quality organizations and third-party inspectors.
• Oversee ITPs, method-statement quality controls, inspections, testing, material traceability and turnover records.
• Manage nonconformities, corrective actions, quality risks, trend analysis, surveillance and lessons learned.
• Report quality performance and significant compliance risks to the Project QCx Manager and project leadership.
• Translate contract, code, specification, Owner/Tenant and project QMS requirements into project procedures, matrices, plans and acceptance controls.
• Prepare the quality organization, staffing plan, responsibility matrix, inspection coverage and competency requirements.
• Review and approve subcontractor quality plans, ITPs, inspection forms and quality submittals before work starts.
• Ensure hold, witness, review and surveillance points are identified, communicated and released only by authorized personnel.
• Plan and conduct process, subcontractor, vendor and project audits; track corrective actions to effective closure.
• Administer NCR and corrective-action processes, including containment, disposition routing, root-cause quality and recurrence prevention.
• Coordinate material receiving inspection, preservation, traceability, measuring-equipment control and special-process qualification.
• Monitor first-pass yield, rework, NCR aging, inspection completion and turnover-record readiness; issue dashboards and trend reports.
• Coordinate quality-to-commissioning handover so construction records support system completion and commissioning prerequisites.
• Promote quality awareness, conduct training, capture lessons learned and recognize early prevention opportunities.

Skills

Leadership

Quality assurance

Auditing

Root-cause analysis

Stakeholder management

Documentation control

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/Construction Quality

Tools

Quality management software

Document control systems

MS Office

Job description

Tec Group International is seeking a Quality & Commissioning Manager to lead the Project Quality Management System across a major data center EPC project. You will supervise the discipline quality team, drive risk-based assurance, and ensure compliance, nonconformity handling and readiness to the Project QCx Manager.

The role requires extensive experience in data center construction, strong leadership, and the ability to coordinate with delivery teams while maintaining QA milestones and turnover