Senior Quality Manager, Data Centers

Suffolk Construction; Turkey (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Suffolk Construction is seeking a Senior Quality Manager to lead project-level quality planning, verification, and reporting on large-scale MC assignments. You will direct Quality Managers, coordinate with procurement, construction, and commissioning teams, and ensure conformance to MC Quality Program standards and client expectations.

The role emphasizes independence of quality verification, risk identification, and leadership in developing personnel, resolving issues, and achieving timely

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Quality Plans, inspection and testing controls, and reporting requirements.
• Translate contract documents and codes into clear quality expectations across multiple projects.
• Coordinate quality activities, inspections, testing, and turnover milestones with construction schedules.
• Identify quality gaps and systemic trends to prevent impact on performance.
• Lead recovery of quality scopes behind schedule or not meeting program expectations.
• Oversee inspections, nonconformance management, and supplier-quality activities.
• Provide objective quality-readiness status supporting progression, commissioning, turnover.

Job description

Overview

The Senior Quality Manager is responsible for project-level planning, implementation, independent verification, and reporting of the Mission Critical (MC) Quality Program on large, complex, multi-building, or elevated-risk assignments, in accordance with current Quality Program standards, contractual requirements, approved project documents, applicable codes, and client expectations.

The Senior Quality Manager typically serves as the Lead Quality Manager for a project, campus, or region, and may direct one or more Quality Managers and supporting quality personnel within the assignment. Assignment is based on project requirements, individual capability, and organizational needs. This role reports to the MC Quality Program Manager.

The role preserves the independence and integrity of quality verification while supporting project delivery objectives and carries expanded responsibility for personnel development, senior stakeholder engagement, systemic risk identification, and recovery of challenged quality efforts. Between assignments, the Senior Quality Manager may support Preconstruction, pursuits, audits, quality planning, or other program priorities.

Responsibilities

Quality Planning and Implementation

Develop and maintain Quality Plans, inspection and testing controls, responsibility assignments, reporting requirements, and supporting execution tools across the assignment in accordance with current MC Quality Program standards and client requirements

Translate contract documents, approved submittals, design requirements, applicable codes, and manufacturer requirements into clear quality expectations across multiple projects, phases, trades, and system scopes, and verify that all responsible parties understand their obligations

Coordinate quality activities, inspections, testing, and turnover milestones with procurement, construction sequencing, commissioning readiness, and project master schedules

Identify, prioritize, and expedite quality scope gaps, recurring deficiencies, systemic quality trends, and technical concerns across the assignment before they affect project performance, client confidence, or turnover

Lead recovery and stabilization of quality scopes or projects that are inadequately controlled, materially deficient, behind schedule, or not meeting program expectations

Inspection, Verification, Nonconformance

Oversee preparatory activities, benchmarks, mockups, first-work and in-process inspections, testing, third-party and special inspections, supplier-quality activities, and completion verification across the assignment

Verify that materials, equipment, installations, testing, documentation, and corrective work demonstrate conformance with approved requirements before affected work progresses, becomes concealed, or is presented as complete, and ensure inspection, measurement, and test equipment remains appropriately controlled and calibrated

Oversee management of quality issues and nonconformances through containment, root-cause evaluation, corrective action, reinspection or retesting, documentation, and closure

Lead evaluation and escalation of repeated, disputed, systemic, or high-risk quality conditions requiring senior project, design-team, client, or MC Quality Program engagement

Documentation, Readiness, and Turnover

Ensure consistent application of established MC Quality Program standards, documentation, and artifact-control requirements across assigned personnel and scopes, and ensure complete, accurate, traceable, and audit-ready quality records are maintained; support MC Quality Program audits, including ISO 9001 internal audit activities, with assignment-level preparation, evidence gathering, corrective action, and follow-through as assigned

Provide objective quality-readiness status supporting construction progression, commissioning activities, energization planning, turnover, and closeout across all assigned scopes

Partner with Commissioning leadership to align installation verification, deficiency resolution, and system completion with commissioning readiness without assuming commissioning testing or functional-performance authority

Verify completion of quality documentation, inspection records, test reports, certifications, nonconformance closure, punch completion, and required turnover deliverables across the assignment

Provide clear and timely reporting of assignment quality performance, trends, constraints, disputed conditions, unresolved risks, and residual exposure to project executive and MC Quality Program leadership

Stakeholder, Team, and Program Leadership

Direct, coordinate, develop, and mentor assigned Quality Managers, Assistant Quality Managers, and supporting quality personnel, including work assignment, technical direction, performance observations, and development feedback, with assignment recommendations to the MC Quality Program Manager; coordinate consultants, inspectors, testing agencies, and other third-party quality resource