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General Summary
Responsible for implementing and managing the Quality Control (QC) program on a federal construction project. The QC Manager II ensures work meets contract requirements and applicable quality standards through inspections, testing, documentation, and coordination. The role serves as the project's primary quality liaison with the customer and regulatory agencies and ensures compliance with FAR 52.246-12, Inspection of Construction.
Essential Job Accountabilities
QC Program Management
Establish and maintain the project QC system in accordance with contract documents, specifications, federal requirements, and company standards.
Manage the 3-Phase program including; Preparatory, Initial, and Follow-up phases of control, except where assigned to qualified QC Specialists.
Manage the QC plan, specification and submittal reviews, inspections, testing, documentation, and corrective actions.
Team Leadership
Manage, train, coach, and evaluate project QC personnel.
Direct other QC Managers, QC Engineers, QC Specialists, laboratories, subcontractor quality representatives, and inspection personnel.
Coordinate staffing and inspection coverage for project activities, disciplines, phases, and shifts.
Project Oversight and Compliance
Maintain the onsite presence required by the contract and project needs.
Lead quality meetings, including Coordination and Mutual Understanding Meetings.
Interpret plans, specifications, testing standards, and acceptance criteria; elevate matters requiring professional engineering judgment or customer direction.
Use independent judgment to resolve project quality issues with project leadership, subcontractors, customers, and technical stakeholders.
Ensure compliance with applicable EM 385-1-1, OSHA, MSHA, safety, hazard identification, and sustainability requirements. Maintain current certificates as required.
Technical Support and Issue Resolution
Provide quality-related technical support during preconstruction, construction, and closeout.
Review mix designs and technical quality documents within role authority. Stamping or sealing may be performed only when properly licensed and authorized.
Customer and Project Support
Serve as the primary project quality representative with federal customers, agencies, designers, subcontractors, laboratories, and technical stakeholders.
Lead resolution of complex project quality concerns and support timely customer decisions and acceptance.
Manage the project quality budget, forecast, staffing plan, and estimates; provide quality input for planning, risk reviews, change management, claims, turnover, and closeout.
Education and Certification
High school diploma required; bachelor's degree in Engineering, Architecture, or Construction Management required
Current Construction Quality Management for Contractors (CQM-C) for Contractors certification required for federal assignments. If not current at hire, completion is required within 90 days, subject to contract requirements.
Registered Professional Engineer (PE), ASQ, ISO, or other relevant quality certification required.
Working knowledge of FAR 52.246-12, EM 385-1-1, OSHA, MSHA, and requirements applicable to the assigned project.
Work Experience
Extensive construction quality control experience with demonstrated success leading the QC program on federal projects.
Experience managing QC personnel, laboratories, subcontractors, and concurrent construction activities.
Demonstrated ability to resolve complex project quality issues and coordinate with federal customers, agencies, and project leadership.
Experience on projects with increased technical complexity, customer oversight, quality risk, subcontractor involvement, or schedule demands.
Level II assignment is based on experience, technical proficiency, and demonstrated ability to manage larger, more complex, or higher-risk projects.
Numbers & Facts
Location
Olympia, Washington
Skills
Budgetingunmatched
Change Managementunmatched
Coachingunmatched
Constructionunmatched
Construction Controlunmatched
Construction Managementunmatched
Construction Projectsunmatched
Contract Requirementsunmatched
Corrective Actionunmatched
Customer Relationsunmatched
Customer Support/Serviceunmatched
Documentationunmatched
Federal Governmentunmatched
Forecastingunmatched
Hazard Analysisunmatched
High School Diplomaunmatched
Laboratoryunmatched
Leadershipunmatched
Maintain Complianceunmatched
Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA)unmatched
OSHAunmatched
People Managementunmatched
Performance Reviewsunmatched
Plan Meetingsunmatched
Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
Project Evaluationunmatched
Project Trackingunmatched
Project/Program Managementunmatched
Quality Controlunmatched
Quality Managementunmatched
Quality Metricsunmatched
Records Managementunmatched
Regulationsunmatched
Riskunmatched
Root Cause Analysisunmatched
Sustainabilityunmatched
Team Lead/Managerunmatched
Technical Supportunmatched
Technical Writingunmatched
Technical/Engineering Designunmatched
Testingunmatched
Time Managementunmatched
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