Senior Construction Quality Leader - Program-wide QC

Construction Material Testing; Buffalo (NY); On-site; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Construction Quality Manager III role within Construction Material Testing oversees a major multi-year program, directing Quality Managers and inspectors. You own the site quality management system, the audit program, and the relationship with the owner's quality organization, ensuring consistent quality across projects.

The position emphasizes establishing and maintaining QA plans, leading internal and external audits, and guiding staff development while reporting metrics to program leadership.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in construction quality, with 5+ years managing quality programs and staff.
• Experience with owner quality programs under ISO 9001, NQA-1, or DOT quality assurance frameworks.
• Proven ability to build a QC organization on a new program and hold it to the plan.

Responsibilities

• Establish the program quality management system: plans, procedures, forms, and the audit schedule.
• Direct Quality Managers I and II across projects; set coverage, review performance, and develop staff.
• Lead internal audits and host owner, agency, and third-party audits.
• Own the corrective-action program; Approve quality control plans, ITPs, and laboratory and inspection subcontractor qualifications.
• Report quality metrics — test pass rates, NCR aging, audit findings — to program leadership monthly.

Skills

Quality leadership

Auditing

Staff development

QC program management

Education

USACE CQM-C

ICC Special Inspector

NICET Level IV

ASQ CQA/CMQ-OE

Job description

Construction Quality Manager III role within Construction Material Testing oversees a major multi-year program, directing Quality Managers and inspectors. You own the site quality management system, the audit program, and the relationship with the owner's quality organization, ensuring consistent quality across projects.

The position emphasizes establishing and maintaining QA plans, leading internal and external audits, and guiding staff development while reporting metrics to program leadership.