POSITION: Mission Critical QA/QC Superintendent
REPORTS TO: Mission Critical QA/QC Director
POSITION SUMMARY
The Mission Critical QA/QC Superintendent is responsible for leading and managing the electrical quality assurance and quality control program for large-scale, mission-critical data center projects. This position ensures that all electrical systems are installed, inspected, tested, documented, and turned over in accordance with approved drawings, project specifications, applicable codes, manufacturer requirements, client standards, and Adams Electric Company quality expectations.
This individual works closely with project leadership, field supervision, the general contractor, engineers, vendors, BIM/VDC, commissioning agents, and client representatives to ensure systems are fully prepared for energization, commissioning, integrated systems testing, and final turnover.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
Leadership and Supervision
• Lead by example and promote a project culture centered on safety, quality, accountability, and operational readiness.
• Provide project-wide leadership for electrical QA/QC activities across all data center buildings, systems, and phases.
• Supervise and support QA/QC Foremen, QA/QC inspectors, electricians, apprentices, helpers, and temporary workers assigned to quality activities.
• Coordinate with Project Managers, Superintendents, General Foremen, Foremen, engineers, vendors, commissioning teams, and other trades.
• Establish clear quality expectations and ensure field personnel understand project-specific installation and documentation requirements.
• Monitor QA/QC staffing and assign personnel based on the construction, testing, commissioning, and turnover schedule.
• Participate in project coordination, quality, commissioning, scheduling, and turnover meetings.
• Communicate quality concerns, risks, and required corrective actions to project leadership in a timely manner.
DATA CENTER QUALITY ASSURANCE AND QUALITY CONTROL
• Develop, implement, and maintain the project-specific electrical QA/QC plan.
• Ensure all electrical installations comply with contract documents, approved submittals, applicable codes, manufacturer instructions, client requirements, and Adams Electric
Company standards.
• Establish inspection and test plans for each electrical system and phase of construction.
• Conduct preparatory, initial, follow-up, and final inspections for critical electrical installations.
• Verify installations are complete, accessible, properly labeled, protected, and ready for testing or energization.
• Inspect electrical rooms, equipment yards, data halls, substations, generator areas, and other critical spaces.
• Identify quality concerns early and coordinate corrective actions before they affect energization, commissioning, or turnover milestones.
• Initiate, track, and close nonconformance reports, observations, punch-list items, and quality deficiencies.
• Verify corrective work is completed, reinspected, and properly documented.
• Maintain accurate inspection records, checklists, photographs, test reports, redlines, and turnover documentation.
• Perform quality audits and participate in client, general contractor, engineer, and third-party inspections.
• Monitor subcontractor and vendor work for compliance with project requirements.
• Maintain a clear and documented chain of custody for quality records throughout the project.
CRITICAL ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS
Provide QA/QC oversight for the installation, inspection, testing, and turnover of systems that may include:
• Medium-voltage and low-voltage electrical distribution systems.
• Utility service and onsite substations.
• Switchgear, switchboards, transformers, panelboards, and distribution equipment.
• Uninterruptible Power Supply systems and associated battery systems.
• Standby generators, paralleling switchgear, and fuel-system electrical components.
• Automatic and static transfer switches.
• Power Distribution Units and Remote Power Panels.
• Busway systems, tap boxes, and rack-level power distribution.
• Electrical Power Monitoring Systems and Building Management System interfaces.
• Grounding and bonding systems.
• Lightning protection systems.
• Conduit, cable tray, wireway, raceway, feeders, and branch-circuit installations.
• Fiber-optic and structured cabling pathways, where included in the project scope.
• Lighting, lighting controls, emergency lighting, and life-safety electrical systems.
• Fire alarm and control-system interfaces.
• Mechanical equipment power, controls, and monitoring connections.
• Security, access-control, and other low-voltage system pathways, where applicable.
PLANNING AND SCHEDULING
• Coordinate with the Project Manager and Project Superintendent to align inspections and quality activities with the master project schedule.
• Review project schedules, system completion dates, energization milestones, and commissioning sequences.
• Develop QA/QC schedules and inspection plans for upcoming work.
• Participate in pull-planning sessions, phase-planning meetings, and two- or six-week look-ahead meetings.
• Forecast QA/QC staffing, inspection, testing, and documentation needs based on project milestones.
• Track system completion and turnover by building, room, area, equipment package, and commissioning level.
• Ensure inspections and documentation are completed without delaying energization, startup, commissioning, or turnover.
• Immediately communicate potential quality-related schedule impacts to project leadership.
TESTING, ENERGIZATION, AND COMMISSIONING
• Coordinate electrical inspections and testing required before equipment startup and energization.
• Verify systems have completed all required inspections, checklists, pre-functional testing, and documentation before release for energization.
• Participate in pre-energization walkdowns and system-readiness reviews.
• Confirm electrical equipment is clean, complete, properly labeled, correctly terminated, and free of construction debris before energization.
• Coordinate with qualified testing agencies and verify that required test reports are received and reviewed.
• Confirm testing equipment is appropriate for the work and has current calibration documentation.
• Coordinate testing that may include insulation resistance, continuity, torque verification, ground-fault testing, grounding-system testing, relay testing, breaker testing, and other project-required electrical tests.
• Work closely with the Commissioning Agent and project teams through Levels 1-5 commissioning, as applicable to the project.
• Support manufacturer startup, pre-functional checklists, functional performance testing, load-bank testing, and Integrated Systems Testing.
• Track commissioning deficiencies and coordinate their correction and closure.
• Verify electrical systems are ready to support mechanical startup and critical cooling operations.
• Assist with Method of Procedure reviews and ensure quality requirements are addressed before critical work, testing, or energization begins.
• Attend commissioning meetings and communicate testing status, open items, and system-readiness concerns.
DOCUMENTATION AND TURNOVER
• Develop and maintain a project-specific quality documentation and turnover plan.
• Ensure inspection forms, testing reports, startup documentation, checklists, and supporting photographs are complete and properly organized.
• Maintain equipment-specific documentation by system, building, room, and turnover package.
• Review quality records for accuracy, completeness, signatures, dates, equipment identification, and traceability.
• Track turnover package progress and immediately address missing or incomplete documentation.
• Coordinate with BIM/VDC and field leadership to maintain accurate redline and as-built drawings.
• Support the collection and review of operation and maintenance manuals, warranties, spare-parts documentation, training records, and manufacturer information.
• Verify punch-list and commissioning items are closed before system and project turnover.
• Provide complete and organized documentation to the client in accordance with contractual turnover requirements.
MATERIAL AND EQUIPMENT QUALITY CONTROL
• Verify that electrical equipment and materials received onsite match approved submittals and project specifications.
• Inspect equipment for shipping damage, missing components, proper identification, and correct storage requirements.
• Review material certifications, factory test reports, manufacturer documentation, and other required quality records.
• Coordinate with project leadership to establish equipment receiving, storage, preservation, and protection procedures.
• Monitor the protection of switchgear, transformers, UPS systems, generators, busway, and other sensitive equipment.
• Verify equipment environmental requirements are maintained, including temperature, humidity, cleanliness, and moisture protection when required.
• Coordinate with vendors and manufacturers to resolve material or equipment deficiencies.
• Document equipment damage and track repairs, replacement, or corrective action through completion.
BIM/VDC AND DESIGN COORDINATION
• Coordinate with BIM/VDC, engineering, and field teams to review constructability and quality requirements before installation.
• Review drawings, models, specifications, submittals, RFIs, installation details, and approved changes.
• Verify field installations match the latest approved construction documents and coordinated models.
• Identify potential access, clearance, maintenance, equipment-spacing, and code-compliance concerns.
• Communicate drawing conflicts, design concerns, and installation challenges to project leadership.
• Support accurate redline, as-built, and equipment-location documentation.
• Encourage communication and collaboration among QA/QC, BIM/VDC, engineering, commissioning, and field teams.
PRE-FABRICATION AND MODULAR ASSEMBLIES
• Review prefabrication and modular assembly plans for compliance with approved drawings, specifications, and quality standards.
• Coordinate with the Prefabrication Foreman, BIM/VDC team, and field supervision before components are released for production.
• Establish inspection points and documentation requirements for prefabricated assemblies.
• Inspect prefabricated racks, skids, raceway assemblies, supports, equipment connections, and other modular components.
• Verify prefabricated components are properly labeled, protected, shipped, received, and installed.
• Ensure changes made during prefabrication are documented and incorporated into project records.
• Recommend improvements that increase installation quality, consistency, safety, and efficiency.
TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT
• Train field personnel on data center quality requirements, installation standards, inspection procedures, documentation, and turnover expectations.
• Conduct quality orientations, preparatory meetings, first-work inspections, and task-specific quality training.
• Provide coaching and development to QA/QC Foremen, inspectors, and field supervisors.
• Assist with employee performance reviews and development plans.
• Promote continued education related to electrical systems, data center construction, testing, and commissioning.
• Maintain proficiency with computers, tablets, Bluebeam, Procore, BIM 360, Autodesk Construction Cloud, Microsoft Office, and other project-specific platforms.
SAFETY
• Work with the Project Superintendent, Safety Manager, and field leadership to ensure QA/QC activities are completed safely.
• Coordinate with onsite Safety personnel to identify hazards associated with inspection, testing, startup, and energization activities.
• Support the development and review of Job Safety Analyses, Job Hazard Analyses, energized-work plans, and Methods of Procedure.
• Follow project-specific Lockout/Tagout and electrical safe-work requirements.
• Verify appropriate boundaries, permits, PPE, and qualified personnel are in place for testing and energization activities.
• Stop and report work that presents an immediate safety, quality, equipment, or operational risk.
• Comply with company, client, site, and regulatory safety requirements at all times.
POSITION QUALIFICATIONS
Education, Training, and Certifications
• High school diploma or General Education Degree required.
• OSHA 30 certification required.
• Electrical license or equivalent electrical certification preferred.
• Minimum of 7-10 years of electrical construction experience, including field supervision and QA/QC responsibilities, or an equivalent combination of education, knowledge, and experience.
• Previous mission-critical, hyperscale data center, colocation facility, semiconductor, healthcare, or similarly complex electrical construction experience strongly preferred.
• Experience with testing, energization, commissioning, and system turnover preferred.
• Thorough understanding of electrical drawings, specifications, applicable codes, manufacturer requirements, testing procedures, and commissioning processes.
• Knowledge of medium-voltage and low-voltage distribution, generators, UPS systems, switchgear, busway, grounding, and electrical monitoring systems.
• Strong leadership, organizational, communication, documentation, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to manage multiple systems, buildings, priorities, and deadlines in a fast-paced construction environment.
• Ability to use computers, tablets, electronic drawings, inspection software, and project-management platforms.
WORKING CONDITIONS
• Use of required Personal Protective Equipment is mandatory, including a hard hat, safety vest, protective eyewear, gloves, and safety boots.
• Additional electrical PPE may be required during testing, startup, and energization activities.
• Work is performed indoors and outdoors and may involve exposure to heat, cold, moisture, dust, noise, and chang
