Quality Control Manager

Clark Construction Group, LLC • Charleston, SC

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About The Position

The Quality Control Manager ensures construction projects are built in accordance with contract documents and specifications, owner requirements, and applicable local, state, and federal building codes. The role coordinates with other trades, tracks project progress through daily reports, and follows guidelines issued by the owner. The manager builds and leads a transparent quality control team focused on delivering excellent results.

The position partners with the project team, owner, design team, contractors, executive management, and third-party providers to support quality and timely project completion. It manages the quality control plan and its inspections, testing, submittals, meetings, project documentation, deficiency tracking, punch list, and closeout deliverables. The manager also contributes to staff development, recruiting, relationship building, and identifying opportunities to win work.

Requirements

• Undergraduate degree in a construction or related discipline, or relevant experience.
• Minimum 5–8+ years of verifiable construction quality control and/or inspection experience.
• Takes initiative and personal responsibility to deliver value and excellence.
• Uses expertise to create a vision and align the team to achieve desired outcomes.
• Track record of establishing or contributing to creative strategic solutions.
• Ability to communicate effectively with, persuade, and gain buy-in from a broad range of stakeholders, including executives, leaders, business unit leaders, direct reports, clients, trade partners, and third-party providers.
• Alignment with Clark Standards of Excellence: self-motivated, results-oriented, adaptable, a team player, accountable, ethical, innovative, resilient, relationship-building, people- and team-building, followership-building, able to set direction and execute.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in large-scale construction management or a construction trade with increasing levels of responsibility.
• Ability to manage other inspectors and submittal clerks and coordinate independent material testing and laboratory work.
• Ability to process a large volume of submittals and RFIs.
• Prior experience developing and managing Quality Control Plans.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the project team to understand, plan, and implement contract drawings and specifications.
• Collaborate with the owner, design team, and contractors to ensure quality and timely project construction and completion.
• Implement and manage the “Three Phases of Control” Quality Control Plan.
• Oversee submittal review and approval.
• Schedule and conduct preparatory, initial-phase, and follow-up quality control meetings.
• Control documents related to quality control functions.
• Establish testing procedures in accordance with contract specifications.
• Manage the inspection process.
• Coordinate third-party testing agents and interface with the owner’s representatives as required.
• Track and maintain a project deficiency log.
• Manage the punch list process.
• Oversee project closeout deliverables, including training and O&Ms.
• Confer directly with the executive management team.
• Encourage, lead, and/or participate in staff training and development.
• Proactively identify and develop relationships with industry professionals to generate and win appropriate work.
• Recruit, hire, and retain outstanding people for the Clark team.
• Anticipate stakeholder needs, desires, and goals and exceed their expectations.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager