Lead Quality Assurance Manager

C. A. Murren & Sons Company, Inc.; Aiken (SC); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision

401K match

Job summary

C.A. Murren and Sons is seeking a Lead Quality Assurance Manager to lead the QA program across engineering, procurement, subcontracting, construction, testing, turnover, and supplier activities.

You will interpret quality requirements, maintain the approved program, and stop work when quality concerns arise. You will oversee QA personnel, drive independent audits, and enforce corrective actions while coordinating interfaces with project management and suppliers to ensure compliance and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, science, quality, construction management, or a related technical field.
• 12-15 years progressive quality experience, 6-8 years with DOE projects.
• Experience managing at least three direct reports.
• Demonstrated implementation knowledge of ASME NQA-1 and DOE O 414.1D, including graded approach.
• Audit and surveillance experience: planning, performance, reporting, and follow-up verification.
• Experience interpreting contracts, specifications, codes, quality clauses, and supplier flow-downs.

Responsibilities

• Develop and administer the project Quality Assurance Plan and audit program.
• Lead audits, surveillance, and assessments of CAM, subcontractor, supplier, and field activities.
• Review procedures, work processes, procurement documents, and quality plans.
• Exercise stop-work authority to contain nonconforming items.
• Oversee QA personnel qualification and independence.
• Coordinate quality interfaces across multiple teams and subcontractors.
• Monitor metrics, schedules, and turnover readiness; communicate risks and actions.
• Support access, oversight, audits, and records review for turnover.

Skills

Leadership

Quality management

DOE project experience

Auditing

Contract interpretation

Team management

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering, science, quality, construction management, or related

Job description

As a Lead Quality Assurance Manager at C.A. Murren and Sons, you will be considered an important part of the team as you bring your expertise in meeting organizational objectives. You will lead a team of QA Managers and oversee the QA processes across multiple teams and products ensuring standards are consistent and met. As a Lead Quality Assurance Manager, you are expected to manage resources efficiently using tools, personnel and budgets, aligning the QA team toward the common quality goals with clarity and structure.

C.A. Murren and Sons is seeking a Lead Quality Assurance Manager that will lead independent implementation and oversight of the project Quality Assurance Program for engineering, procurement, subcontracting, construction, testing, turnover, and supplier activities. This position interprets project quality requirements, maintains the approved program, verifies effective implementation, and has authority to stop work when a significant condition adverse to quality warrants. Role boundary QA is an independent oversight function. The Lead QA Manager may review and observe QC and construction activities but must not become responsible for directing or controlling the work being verified.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and administer the project Quality Assurance Plan, implementing procedures, audit/surveillance program, qualification program, and quality performance reporting in conformance with the approved CAM program and contract flow-downs.
• Implement ASME NQA-1-2019 and DOE O 414.1D graded-approach requirements across safety class, safety significant, production support, and general service work, documenting the basis and ensuring grading never negates an applicable requirement.
• Plan and lead independent audits, surveillances, and assessments of CAM, subcontractor, supplier, laboratory, and field activities; issue findings and verify timely, effective closure.
• Review project procedures, work processes, procurement documents, quality plans, inspection/test plans, and construction records for appropriate quality requirements and objective evidence.
• Exercise stop-work authority and ensure controls are established over further processing, delivery, installation, or operation of nonconforming items when required.
• Oversee qualification and indoctrination of QA personnel and lead auditors; maintain qualification records and ensure assigned personnel have organizational freedom, access to work, and direct management access.
• Review significant nonconformances, conditions adverse to quality, corrective actions, trends, root-cause evaluations, and effectiveness reviews; elevate adverse trends and repeat conditions.
• Coordinate quality interfaces with the Project Quality Manager, QC Manager, NCR/CAR Manager, Field Engineering, Work Planning, Procurement Quality, Document Control, Construction, suppliers, and Company representatives.
• Monitor quality metrics, audit and surveillance schedules, aging items, recurring issues, records completion, supplier performance, and turnover readiness; communicate risks and recovery actions.
• Support Company access, oversight, audits, and records review, and ensure quality records remain legible, traceable, retrievable, and suitable for turnover.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, science, quality, construction management, or a related technical field; an equivalent combination of education and directly relevant experience may be considered.
• Must have at least 12-15 years of progressive quality experience of which 6-8 years with DOE projects.
• Must have experience managing at least three direct reports.
• Demonstrated implementation knowledge of ASME NQA-1 and DOE O 414.1D, including graded approach, independent assessment, corrective action, document/records control, procurement quality, and personnel qualification.
• Demonstrated audit and surveillance experience, including planning, performance, reporting, finding classification, corrective-action evaluation, and follow-up verification.
• Experience interpreting contracts, specifications, codes, quality clauses, and supplier/subcontractor flow-downs for field construction.
• Strong technical writing, judgment, facilitation, and issue-escalation skills; able to defend independent quality conclusions under schedule pressure.
• Current or previously qualified ASME NQA-1 Lead Auditor preferred.
• Preferred knowledge of 10 CFR 830 Subpart A, 10 CFR Part 21, suspect/counterfeit items, commercial grade dedication, and DOE O 414.1E transition considerations.
• Preferred experience on DOE capital projects involving heavy civil, reinforced concrete, underground utilities, mechanical piping, welding, tanks, and electrical duct bank scope.
• Preferred experience overseeing independent testing laboratories, special inspection agencies, NDE suppliers, and procurement-quality activities.

Requirements

• Valid driver's license
• Must be a U.S. citizen
• Participation in pre-employment and random drug screening program
• Subject to background screening

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and 401K match.
• Career development plan which offers continued growth for your career goals.

C.A. Murren is a full-service, well established industrial, civil, and power industry contractor performing work throughout the southeastern and mid-atlantic United States with offices located in Georgia, Florida, South Carolina and Virginia. For more than 40 years, we have offered the highest levels of industrial site development performance, and we are proud of our long legacy of serving the southeast. Our philosophy is to focus on both the human element and the high quality, sustainable construction that makes us who we are. We are completely dedicated to serving our clients and the team members who make C. A. Murren a team and family-oriented experience like few others. We pride ourselves in over 40 years of safety and quality work in the heavy civil construction industry. We are seeking a Quality Assurance Manager with at least 10 years of experience. Also, please check out our company. https://camurren.com/