Construction Quality Director – Aviation

AECOM•New York, NY

2d•$195,000 - $270,000•Onsite

About The Position

AECOM Hunt is seeking an experienced Construction Quality Director with aviation construction experience to support our ongoing construction at JFK Airport. AECOM is delivering a better world through infrastructure that creates opportunity for everyone. We are a global team of 47,000 professionals driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world. This role leads the implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of AECOM quality management systems for the project, ensuring required quality evidence, inspection records, and documentation are maintained. The position provides quality leadership across airport terminal building construction and key interfaces with civil, airside, and landside work, with particular attention to vertical construction and building envelope scope. The role manages and coordinates project quality personnel and third-party inspectors, establishing priorities, providing guidance, and driving accountability for quality results. It oversees project inspection, testing, reporting, and documentation requirements within a highly regulated aviation construction environment. The Construction Quality Director partners with project leadership, field teams, trade contractors, designers, and inspectors to identify quality risks early, resolve technical issues, and drive corrective actions. This role reviews and supports QC preconstruction activities, subcontractor quality plans, material submittals, technical reports, inspection/testing records, and nonconformance resolution. The Director provides guidance to employees within established policies and recommends changes to procedures based on project needs, lessons learned, and industry requirements. The role acts as an advisor to project teams to meet schedules and resolve technical quality problems, and may have budget responsibilities and responsibility for functional-area results.

Requirements

BA/BS in Civil Engineering, Construction Engineering or similar curriculum, plus 10 years of relevant experience in Construction Quality Control, including 2 years of leadership, or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education.
Demonstrated construction quality assurance/quality control experience on airport or aviation projects. Direct airport experience is required for this role.
Demonstrated experience leading or managing quality personnel, inspectors and/or third-party inspection teams.
Experience with vertical/building construction, including direct exposure to building envelope systems and quality requirements.

Nice To Haves

Airport terminal construction experience with working knowledge of building, civil, airside and landside interfaces.
Experience with building envelope systems such as roofing, waterproofing, glazing/facade, air/vapor barriers, windows and sealants.
Experience in construction quality control involving reinforced concrete, structural steel and welding, and other major building trades.
Experience with field testing, construction engineering, technical reports, inspection documentation, nonconformance tracking and corrective actions.
Experience managing third-party inspections and QC preconstruction activities for subcontractors and subcontractor materials.
Experience with New York and New Jersey Port Authority construction regulations.
Experience with BIM 360 or Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC).
OSHA 30.
Experience in Construction Project Management.

Responsibilities

Leads the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of AECOM quality management systems for the project, ensuring required quality evidence, inspection records and documentation are maintained.
Provides quality leadership across airport terminal building construction and key interfaces with civil, airside and landside work, with particular attention to vertical construction and building envelope scope.
Manages and coordinates project quality personnel and third-party inspectors, establishing priorities, providing guidance and driving accountability for quality results.
Oversees project inspection, testing, reporting and documentation requirements within a highly regulated aviation construction environment.
Partners with project leadership, field teams, trade contractors, designers and inspectors to identify quality risks early, resolve technical issues and drive corrective actions.
Reviews and supports QC preconstruction activities, subcontractor quality plans, material submittals, technical reports, inspection/testing records and nonconformance resolution.
Provides guidance to employees within established policies and recommends changes to procedures based on project needs, lessons learned and industry requirements.
Acts as an advisor to project teams to meet schedules and resolve technical quality problems; may have budget responsibilities and responsibility for functional-area results.