As Quality Control Manager (QCM), you plan, run and manage construction quality control (CQC) on your assigned projects. You make sure the work meets contract requirements, project specifications, applicable codes and industry standards. You lead the quality assurance and quality control procedures, oversee inspections and testing, manage quality documentation and direct corrective action on nonconforming work. You work closely with project management, subcontractors, inspectors and clients to find and fix quality issues early, supervise Assistant QCMs, and take on Assistant QCM duties as appropriate. You will handle project documentation under the client's information-handling requirements.
WHAT YOU WILL DO
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Lead the QC team
- Lead, manage and develop Assistant QCMs.
- Train them and keep QC tasks and software use in line with Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
- Set quality control expectations, monitor as needed, and give coaching and feedback on performance and development.
Project start-up
- Partner with the project team to lead project start-up.
- Help the SSHO get dig permits and hot-work permits.
- Establish the project submittal register and review the contract documents for constructability.
- Join preconstruction meetings with subcontractors to set expectations, and post-award meetings with USACE.
- Collect Division 1 submittals, accident prevention plans (APPs), QC plans, SWPPP and similar documents.
- Set up third-party inspectors.
Testing and inspections
- Conduct testing and field inspections, plus daily inspections with photo documentation.
- Submit testing and inspections in RMS and construction management software.
- Coordinate inspections with USACE.
- Coordinate inspection and testing requirements for each definable feature of work (DFOW) with subcontractors and third-party inspectors.
- Log deficiencies and observations in construction management software and follow up to completion. Hold subcontractors accountable for deficient work and review the final product for acceptability.
Submittals and records
- Submit project documentation for USACE approval in RMS.
- Request and review subcontractor submittals, and confirm all preconstruction submittals are complete before work starts.
- Track material deliveries. Verify and document that materials conform to approved submittals, are handled and stored appropriately, and are acceptable for use.
- Review all RFIs for validity before processing.
- Populate daily project report data in RMS: weather delays, inspections, progress, manpower and deficiencies.
- Handle project and client information only in approved systems, and follow the client's marking, sharing and retention requirements.
Three phases of control
- Implement the three phases of quality control inspections.
- Lead preparatory meetings with subcontractors on contract requirements, and make sure they work from the current drawings and specifications.
- Hold initial inspections in the field to review preliminary work, and follow-up inspections as needed.
- Coordinate with USACE on contract changes and client direction.
- Lead QC meetings with the company and subcontractors as needed. Attend subcontractor progress meetings and OAC meetings.
Closeout
- Partner with the project team to lead project closeout.
- Request and review O&Ms from subcontractors, coordinate owner training as needed, develop a spare parts list and collect warranty documentation.
- Coordinate testing and balancing (TAB) and commissioning.
- Coordinate pre-final and final inspections. Create, track and close out punchlist items.
- Make sure subcontractors keep up red-lined changes, and coordinate final as-built drawings.
- Compile closeout documentation required by the client.
Safety
- Support the safety process. Stop work if necessary to resolve matters that affect safety or quality, or that inhibit the logical progress of work.
REQUIRED EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION
- Laredo role: federal QCM experience, ideally USACE, but any federal body qualifies
- Laredo role: projects of $25 million or more
- Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering or a related field
- 2+ years of construction and/or field leadership experience
- USACE QCM training certification
- OSHA 10 certification
- Experience using Microsoft Office Suite, including Excel, Word, Outlook and Teams
- Experience using RMS
- Ability to access federal installations and military bases
- Willingness to follow client information-handling and security requirements
- Leadership, coaching and/or mentoring experience
PREFERRED
- 5+ years of construction and/or field leadership experience
- EM385-1-1 safety completion
- Experience working as a QCM on federal projects
- Experience leading direct reports
- OSHA 30 certification
- Experience using construction management software and Bluebeam
- Experience leading project start-up, and leading and facilitating meetings
- Experience closing out the steps required on federal projects
HOURS AND TRAVEL
You can travel or accept full-time assignments to any location where the company conducts business. You maintain a presence at the jobsite at all times while work is in progress. Work may require occasional weekend and evening work.
WORK ENVIRONMENT AND PHYSICAL DEMANDS
You work on a construction site with others and routinely use standard office equipment and personal protective equipment.
- Regularly sit and use manual dexterity.
- Frequently stand, walk, lift or carry up to 20 lbs., speak, hear, use eye and hand coordination, and reach with arms and hands.
- Frequently work on construction job sites: outside, alone, in excessive dampness, heat or cold, around fumes, smoke, gases, chemicals and solvents, on uneven surfaces, in noise and vibration, and around moving equipment and machinery.
- Frequently climb stairs and ladders, balance, stoop or crouch.
- Occasionally lift or carry up to 50 lbs.
- Vision: close, distance, peripheral, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.