Quality Engineer - Water Group

Sundt Construction•El Paso, TX

5d•Onsite

About The Position

As a 100% employee-owned contractor, Sundt offers a culture where employees are deeply invested in their work. The company focuses on building long-term prosperity for clients, communities, and employee-owners, providing competitive pay, industry-leading benefits, incentive programs, and training for personal and professional growth. The Quality Engineer serves as a technical resource for the project, possessing a thorough understanding of construction documents and responding to inquiries regarding drawings, specifications, shop drawings, and change orders. This role maintains effective relationships with owners, architects, engineers, subcontractors, and suppliers, and assists the Project Quality Manager in executing the Project Quality Management program.

Requirements

An advanced knowledge of construction engineering technology, codes, standards, etc., plus in-depth understanding of the interdependence and relationship between other functional units, is required.
Four-year Civil Engineering or Construction Management degree, or have a minimum five years construction experience in construction quality control.
Ability to obtain ACI Concrete Field Testing Technician - Grade I and Transportation Concrete Special Inspector certification within 3 months of hire.
Must possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills, plus demonstrated ability to manage a team of varied disciplines.
Should have the skill/ability to supervise and/or quality technicians.
Proficient use of all Microsoft Office Suite programs.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Military and/or commercial airfield pavement construction preferred.
Experience with USACE/NAFVAC preferred.

Responsibilities

Demonstrates an understanding of the quality management plan (QMP) and is involved in support and execution of the plan.
Schedules and participates in preparatory & pre-installation meetings in support of Sundt quality management program with suppliers, subcontractors, supervision and the owner.
Performs initial, follow up and completion inspections of work-in-place to ensure compliance with approved submittals and contract documents. Generates daily reports to document compliance.
Schedules & supervises testing agencies and maintains records to ensure testing is performed per contract requirements. Generates control charts in compliance with contract requirements.
Collaborates with operations to produce task specific quality management plans.
Ensures that deficient items are being reported, tracked and corrected.
Assists with the timely and appropriate generation, collection, distribution, storage, retrieval and ultimate disposition of meeting agendas, RFI's and daily reports.
Communicates with others regarding inspections results and recommends corrective procedures.
Assists with material procurement. Coordinates submittals with other trades. Assists with reviewing submittals for compliance with the contract documents.
Verifies onsite received materials meet contract specific requirements. Ensures materials are stored in compliance with contract documents.
Maintains as-built contract documents. Compiles close-out requirements, including operation and maintenance manuals, warranties, and other job-specific items required by the specifications.