Quality Assurance Tester

About the role

Clayton is a leading single-family, values-driven home builder dedicated to attainable housing, sustainable practices, and creating a world-class experience for customers and team members. As a vertically integrated home builder, we serve customers through every stage of the homeownership journey—building, selling, financing, and insuring homes.

The QA Tester establishes procedures and quality standards to ensure proper working order and conducts production line inspections to verify compliance with required construction requirements and QA procedures.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a liaison between production management/production personnel and the Third-Party monitoring agency.
• Monitor the production line for non-conformances.
• Oversee testing procedures of plumbing, electrical, and mechanical systems to ensure continued compliance with HUD Standards and/or applicable state and national codes.
• Perform CCI Rotation and provide master DAPIA manual revisions/additions, updating master/production line copies, including indexes, as required.
• Maintain files for material specification sheets and installation requirements to assure compliance.
• Work with production managers, area coordinators, and team leaders to correct non-conformances.
• Audit all QA Checklists (travelers).
• Track and monitor NC & TRC citations issued by IPIA inspectors and plant personnel.
• Provide training, as needed, for certification of production team members.
• Conduct CCI rotation inspections and production line inspections to verify compliance with construction requirements and QA procedures.
• Verify material/lumber for specifications, listings, and storage.
• Check QWA travelers in unit files for completeness and sign at the completion of the production process.
• Order HUD certification labels, DATA plate forms, tags, identification labels, installation/homeowner manuals, etc., as needed.
• Set up standard HUD data plate templates for each model and complete file folders for each home.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• High school diploma or GED.
• 2 years of quality inspection or exposure experience preferred.

Benefits

• Flexible health, dental, and vision benefits package for full-time team members.
• Competitive 401K programs with investment options and company matching for full- and part-time team members after one year.
• Paid parental leave.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Employee Assistance Programs (EAP).
• Paid volunteer time through the Clayton Impact program for causes meaningful to team members.
• Holistic wellness programs covering physical, nutritional, social, financial, spiritual, and occupational well-being, available online or in-person.