Quality Control Manager
About The Position
The Quality Control Manager ensures project construction complies with contract document 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 owner-issued guidelines. The manager builds and leads a transparent quality control team focused on delivering excellence. This position works closely with project stakeholders throughout construction, overseeing quality plans, submittals, meetings, testing, inspections, deficiencies, punch lists, and closeout deliverables. It also includes staff development, recruiting, relationship-building, and direct interaction with executive management. The role is hands-on and involves substantial time on active construction sites, as well as some office work. It requires flexibility for extended hours and responsiveness to time-sensitive issues or emergencies.
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, 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, able to build people and teams and followership, and able to set direction and execute.
- Ability to meet the physical demands of an active, hands-on role, including frequent standing and movement on job sites, bending, kneeling, reaching, and frequently lifting and carrying up to 25 pounds and occasionally up to 50 pounds.
- Ability to communicate effectively and visually read plans and inspect work.
- Flexibility to work extended hours, particularly during critical project phases or client deadlines, and to respond to business needs outside regular hours.
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.
- Develop relationships with industry professionals to generate and win appropriate work.
- Recruit, hire, and retain outstanding industry talent for the Clark team.
- Anticipate stakeholder needs, desires, and goals and work to exceed their expectations.
- Follow Clark Construction safety policies and procedures and applicable laws.
- Monitor and respond to communications when business needs require attention, including time-sensitive matters or emergencies.
Benefits
- Base salary and bonus potential.
- Health, dental, and vision benefits.
- Paid time off.
- Retirement/401(k) and Company Contribution plan.
- Life insurance.
- Commuter benefit.
- Short- and long-term disability.
- Fitness reimbursement.
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA).
- Tuition reimbursement.
- Back-up daycare.
- Tutoring and family support benefits.
- EAP/Work-Life assistance.
- Holiday contribution program.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
