Quality Control Manager (QCM)

About the role

The Quality Control Manager (QCM) is a dual-functioning technical authority responsible for leading quality assurance, contract compliance, and safety enforcement across all on-site construction operations. This dual role holds full stop-work authority to halt construction instantly to correct quality deviations or safety hazards.

Responsibilities

• Enforce strict quality control standards to eliminate rework, ensuring all craftsmanship, materials, and installations comply with contract drawings, specifications, and regulatory codes.
• Implement and document preparatory, initial, and follow-up phase inspections for all definable features of work.
• Assist with maintaining an accurate, up-to-date set of redline/as-built drawings on-site throughout the project lifecycle.
• Coordinate, oversee, and document all third-party testing (e.g., soil, concrete, electrical) and code inspections.
• Implement and monitor the project-specific Accident Prevention Plan (APP) and Activity Hazard Analyses (AHAs) in compliance with OSHA, EM 385-1-1, and contract standards.
• Conduct daily safety walks to proactively identify and mitigate physical, structural, or environmental hazards.
• Plan and conduct mandatory weekly safety meetings and specialized safety orientations for all incoming field personnel and subcontractors.
• Lead investigations and root-cause analyses for any near-misses, injuries, property damage, or safety violations.
• Direct day-to-day on-site production activities and ensure strict project schedule adherence.
• Manage, oversee, and coordinate the work of all on-site subcontractors.
• Identify site hazards, enforce safety compliance, and maintain a secure working environment.
• Attend and actively participate in all project partnering meetings and quality control meetings.
• Maintain detailed, accurate daily logs documenting site conditions, manpower, weather, materials received, and field progress.
• Maintain a continuous physical presence on the job site during all contract work performance until project completion and formal acceptance.
• Resolve field-level disputes, logistics clashes, or jurisdictional issues between subcontractors immediately to prevent delays.
• Maintain an accurate, up-to-date set of redline/as-built drawings on-site throughout the lifecycle of the project.
• Document field modifications, tracking labor and material expenditures for potential change orders or extra work authorizations.
• Lead the investigation and reporting of any near-misses, injuries, or safety violations, implementing corrective action immediately.

Requirements

• Must be a graduate engineer, graduate architect, or a graduate of construction management, with a minimum of 5 years of construction quality control experience on construction projects similar to this contract OR
• Must be a construction person with a minimum of 10 years of construction experience, of which a minimum of 5 years of experience must be in construction quality control on construction projects similar to this contract.
• Current OSHA 30-Hour Construction Safety certification.
• Previous experience as a Site Safety Officer, safety representative, or other safety positions.
• Employees may be exposed to extreme cold or hot weather conditions, fumes, or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, and loud noise.
• Employees may be required to remain in a stationary position, stand, push, pull, climb, kneel, crawl, balance, squat, bend, and reach.
• Employees may be also required to use gear to move items around, including, but not limited to, carts and dollies.
• Employees may also be occasionally required to lift and/or move up to 49 pounds.

Qualifications

• EM 385-1-1 Competent Person Training.
• CHST (Construction Health and Safety Technician).
• CSP (Certified Safety Professional) / ASP (Associate Safety Professional).
• STSC (Safety Trained Supervisor Construction).
• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, Civil Engineering, Building Construction, Architecture, or an equivalent engineering field.
• Current OSHA 30-Hour Certification and USACE/NAVFAC Construction Quality Management (CQM) for Contractors certification.