Quality Control Director

About the Role

The Quality Control Director is the senior owner-side leader accountable for construction quality across Fleet’s data center portfolio, leading an independent quality function that reports outside the construction delivery line. This independence ensures quality is verified objectively, never subordinated to schedule or cost, and never marking its own homework. The role sets Fleet’s quality standards, systems, and inspection framework, and leads the Site Quality Managers (one per building) on a solid line. The quality function partners closely with the Commissioning (Cx) organization to provide leadership with integrated assurance that each asset is both built right (QA/QC) and performs right (commissioning), while preserving independent verification on each side.

Reports to: VP, Construction. Requires 15+ years of experience (7+ owner-side).

Responsibilities

• Quality Standards & Governance
  • Establish and own Fleet’s construction quality management system — quality plans, inspection and test plans, standards, checklists, and acceptance criteria — across all campuses and disciplines (CSA, MEP, power).
  • Ensure a consistent, repeatable quality program at every campus, scaled as the portfolio grows from a single campus to concurrent campuses.
  • Drive continuous improvement of Fleet standards using defect trends, root-cause analysis, and lessons learned, in partnership with in-house design/engineering and preconstruction.
• Portfolio Quality Assurance
  • Own independent, owner-side verification that construction conforms to design documents, specifications, and codes across the portfolio.
  • Own the NCR and corrective-action framework; track systemic quality issues to root-cause resolution and prevent recurrence across campuses.
  • Ensure QA/QC completion and documentation support clean turnover, partnering with Commissioning so installation conformance and functional performance together deliver Fleet’s high-availability, mission-critical resiliency requirements.
• Leadership, Reporting & Partnership
  • Lead, develop, and grow the Site Quality Managers and the quality bench as the portfolio scales.
  • Provide leadership with portfolio-level quality metrics, trends, risks, and assurance status as an independent view alongside construction, controls, and commissioning.
  • Build a partnership-oriented quality culture with construction, preconstruction, commissioning, and trade partners while safeguarding the independence and objectivity of the quality function.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering, or a related technical field, OR equivalent practical quality leadership experience.
• 15+ years of construction quality experience on large-scale, mission-critical, or hyperscale projects, including significant time leading a quality function across multiple sites or a program; owner-side experience preferred.
• Demonstrated ownership of a construction quality management system, inspection/test frameworks, and nonconformance/corrective-action programs across CSA and MEP/power scopes.
• Proven ability to lead distributed site-based quality staff and to maintain an independent quality voice in a matrixed organization.
• Advanced proficiency with Procore (or equivalent), quality/inspection systems, reporting/BI tools, and Microsoft Office Suite.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience on data center, utility-scale power, or mission-critical facilities.
• Relevant quality credentials (e.g., CQM, CWI, Six Sigma, or equivalent).
• Experience standing up or maturing an independent quality function.
• Strong communication skills and a partnership-oriented, problem-solving approach.

Recommended Contractor & Third-Party Support (Preconstruction)

A three-person owner-side preconstruction team (one Director, two site-assigned Managers) leverages the following support to extend capacity with specialized expertise and independent validation while retaining strategy, budget, decisions, and accountability:

• Tier 1 — Engage first (essential)
  • Owner’s independent cost estimator / benchmarking firm for third-party check estimates at each design milestone.
  • GC/CM preconstruction services (early contractor involvement) for constructability, trade-market pricing, bid packaging, and schedule.
  • Owner’s Engineer / design manager support (MEP and power) for independent technical peer review of the A/E’s mission-critical and high-voltage design.
• Tier 2 — Scope-specific, high value on power and schedule
  • Utility interconnection / power delivery advisor to manage interconnection application, utility negotiations, and energization schedule.
  • Owner’s procurement / OFCI expediting agent for long-lead equipment (transformers, switchgear, generators, chillers, BESS).
  • Commissioning Authority (CxA), engaged in preconstruction to build the commissioning basis into design and procurement.
  • Scheduling consultant (P6) to build and maintain the integrated preconstruction-to-construction master schedule.
• Tier 3 — Specialized / as-needed consultants
  • Geotechnical, environmental, and survey services.
  • Entitlements and permitting expeditor.
  • Legal / contracts counsel for delivery-method and EPC structuring.
  • Risk and insurance advisor.
  • Sustainability / energy consultant.

Operating principle: The owner preconstruction team owns strategy, budget, decisions, and accountability; contractors and consultants provide capacity, specialized expertise, and independent validation.

About Fleet

Fleet Data Centers designs, builds, and operates mega-scale data center campuses. Fleet provides its customers flexibility and predictability to meet their upside demand forecasts, addressing a key need in the market as traditional leased models struggle to keep pace with demand for new Cloud and AI infrastructure. Fleet is led by a team of industry veterans who have already made a lasting imprint on the evolution of global digital infrastructure and are uniquely capable of upleveling data center development scale and operations in the face of rising demand.

Fleet brings in-house design, engineering, and operational capabilities to collaborate with customers on tailored solutions for campuses of 500MW+, enabling the world’s largest and most sophisticated customers a seamless extension of their own data center fleets with constant access to design innovation. Fleet is headquartered in Denver, Colorado, with satellite offices in Seattle, WA and Arlington, VA.

These positions are located in the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center north of Sparks, NV and require the candidate to be on-site (senior field roles on-site five days per week), located within a commutable distance to the project site.

Benefits

• 100% employer-covered medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401K program.
• Standard paid holidays.
• Unlimited PTO.

As these are on-site positions, there is limited travel associated with the roles.