Quality Director

About the role

Shimmick is seeking a highly talented Quality Director to be based in our Suisun City, CA office. This role is responsible for assuring that every aspect of the Company’s business process are suitably oriented toward and built around contemporary principles of total quality in every respect. Backed by over 100 years of expertise and driven by innovation and an entrepreneurial spirit, Shimmick is one of the most dynamic infrastructure builders in the industry. With market leadership in water resources, sustainable transportation, and complex electrical construction, we’re well-positioned to lead during a time of rapid change. As project delivery models, regulatory frameworks, supply chains, and technology continue to evolve, our ability to stay flexible and agile in our construction approach is essential to our success.

Responsibilities

• Oversees the management of the monitoring and evaluation process to ensure that Shimmick quality management systems are being followed and evidence is recorded and maintained.
• Provides guidance to employees within the latitude of established policies.
• Recommends changes to policies and establishes procedures that affect immediate organization.
• Ensures that the organization understands, embraces, and employs sound quality methodologies in all its work and that a set of metrics is developed and used to accurately, timely, and cost effectively measure and communicate quality performance.
• Makes certain that suppliers and customers of the Company are fully aware of the significant feeling for high quality.
• Directs activities related to quality control, including strategies, staffing, scheduling, coordinating, quality assurance standards, and planning.
• Assists in the execution of regular audits of the acceptance, correctness, of understanding, and institutionalization of the entire Quality System by the organization in each plant.
• Prepares and controls quality assurance and quality control annual budget.
• Plans and establishes engineering schedules and follow up performance against estimates.
• Counsels with Plant Managers and/or Vice President, and General Managers in the annual function of goal setting, and helps to ensure the professional development planning of the quality professionals in the Company.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements: Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management, or related field + 10 years of related quality management experience in the construction industry, or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education.

Preferred Qualifications: Experience in Rail/Transit, Bridge, and/or water/wastewater treatment plant construction projects.

Qualified applicants who are offered a position must pass a pre‑employment substance abuse test. This position does not include sponsorship for United States work authorization.

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision coverage
• Options to participate in an FSA or HSA
• Employer‑paid STD, LTD, basic life and AD&D
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Voluntary benefits: pet insurance, hospital indemnity, critical illness insurance, legal and identity theft protection

These benefits are available to all employees working more than 20 hours per week. Employees working less than 20 hours per week are eligible for medical, dental and vision coverage as well as EAP services.

Pay

The salary range for this position is between $215,000 - $260,000 per year depending on experience and/or education.