Job Description:Overview: The Construction Quality Control Director is responsible for directing and managing the construction quality control program for major transportation and civil infrastructure projects. This position provides leadership and oversight for quality management systems, quality control activities, inspections, audits, documentation, nonconformance management, corrective actions, training, subcontractor quality requirements, and compliance with contract documents, project quality plans, federal, state, local, ISO 9001, and other applicable standards and requirements.
Responsibilities and Duties: Quality Management System Leadership - Direct, develop, implement, administer, and maintain the Construction Quality Management System for the project, including the Project Quality Management Plan.
- Provide leadership and oversight for project quality control activities, quality processes, quality documentation, and quality performance expectations.
- Establish and enforce controlled systems that safeguard the integrity of project plans, construction operations, quality records, and compliant project execution.
- Ensure quality management activities are aligned with contract documents, company requirements, project requirements, and applicable quality standards.
- Establish quality objectives, key performance indicators, and metrics; manage the quality control budget and resource plan; and report quality performance to executive and project leadership.
Field Quality Control, Inspections, and Audits - Oversee field quality control activities, inspections, testing documentation, quality reports, audits, and related quality records.
- Verify and oversee that construction site activities are performed in accordance with applicable codes, standards, specifications, contract documents, and project quality requirements.
- Hold authority to reject nonconforming work and to issue hold-point or stop-work decisions when quality, safety, or contract requirements are not met, independent of production pressures.
- Develop and implement quality trainings and perform quality control audits for the project, subcontractors, and related project teams.
- Oversee materials testing programs and coordinate with certified testing laboratories and third-party inspectors.
- Lead quality-related meetings with project teams, the owner, and subcontractors, and provide direction, follow-up, and technical support as needed.
Compliance, Documentation, and Reporting - Ensure compliance with contract documents, the Project Quality Management Plan, and federal, state, local, ISO 9001, and other applicable regulatory laws and standards.
- Maintain and report quality management system records as required by the Project Quality Management Plan and company corporate requirements. • Oversee the preparation, review, and audit of quality reports, quality records, audit results, inspection documentation, test results, and other quality performance information.
- Ensure relevant quality control documentation is distributed to site subcontractors, project teams, and other stakeholders.
- Serve as the primary quality liaison with the owner, GDOT and agency representatives, and thirdparty inspectors, including audit findings, work acceptance, and final quality closeout and turnover documentation.
Nonconformance, Corrective Actions, and Subcontractor Quality Support - Direct project-level nonconformance management and lead root cause analysis, corrective actions, and preventive actions through closure.
- Jointly with construction and procurement departments, review contractual specifications for materials to be used on the project.
- Oversee evaluations of consultants and subcontractors as specified in the Project Quality Management Plan, and hold them accountable to project quality requirements.
- Provide technical recommendations and practical solutions to support quality compliance, issue resolution, lessons learned, and continuous improvement throughout construction.
Leadership, Safety, and Team Support - Lead, staff, mentor, and evaluate quality control managers, inspectors, and technicians, setting performance expectations and developing their technical skills.
- Provide leadership to quality teams, construction teams, subcontractors, consultants, and project stakeholders through example, direction, coordination, and sharing of knowledge and skills. • Partner with project leadership, construction, procurement, engineering, document control, safety, and other departments to ensure quality needs are being met.
- Demonstrate strong leadership, communication, technical judgment, integrity, ethics, safety awareness, attention to detail, and commitment to high standards.
- Other unlisted duties will be assigned.
Qualifications: - Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Science, Construction Management, Engineering, or related field required; Professional Engineer license required.
- Minimum of ten (10) years of progressive quality control management experience in construction or similar roles required, including supervision of quality control managers, inspectors, and technicians, preferably on large highway, bridge, paving, utility relocation, heavy civil, transportation, or related infrastructure projects.
- Experience developing and maintaining project quality management plans, quality systems, audits, inspections, reports, documentation, and corrective action processes required.
- Knowledge of construction quality control requirements, contract documents, specifications, drawings, ISO 9001, regulatory standards, testing, inspections, and documentation practices required.
- Experience managing quality control budgets and resources and working directly with owners, GDOT and agency representatives, and third-party inspectors and testing laboratories required.
- Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite, including Excel, SharePoint, and document control systems; applicable quality and construction certifications preferred.
- Strong ability to interpret construction documents and project records, with effective communication, reporting, leadership, organization, problem-solving, decision-making, attention to detail, safety, compliance, integrity, and ethics.
Note: The statements herein are intended to describe the general nature and levels of work performed by employees, but are not a complete list of responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so classified. Furthermore, they do not establish a contract for employment and are subject to change at the discretion of the employer.
