Quality Engineering Manager - Data Centers

E Tech Group • Frederick, MD

3h

About The Position

The Quality Engineering Manager leads the quality and commissioning function for a data center program. The role integrates business-unit standards, supervises Quality Control Engineers, ensures project testing is consistent and auditable, coordinates with clients and project teams, and confirms systems are safe, reliable, and ready for turnover. The candidate must be located near Frederick, Maryland, or Shippingport, Pennsylvania.

The position develops and maintains the project Quality Management System and site-specific Quality Management Plan, establishes quality controls across the project lifecycle, and leads factory and site testing and commissioning. It oversees audits, corrective actions, quality metrics, document and configuration control, supplier quality, and training. The role serves as the primary quality contact for clients and promotes E Tech Group’s core values and the professional development of associates.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, engineering technology, industrial technology, quality management, or a related technical discipline.
• Five or more years of quality management or quality engineering experience in control system integration, mission-critical facilities, data centers, industrial automation, or a comparable regulated environment.
• Working knowledge of BMS, EPMS, PLC/SCADA architectures, industrial and IT networking, system development lifecycle controls, design reviews, commissioning workflows, and integrated systems testing.
• Experience applying owner and colocation-provider requirements, availability and resilience frameworks, and redundancy architectures such as N, N+1, 2N, or 2N+1.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate across engineering, project management, fabrication, construction, commissioning, supplier, and client teams.
• Must be located near Frederick, MD, or Shippingport, PA.

Nice To Haves

• Relevant credentials such as PE, CxA, ASHRAE BCxP, ASQ CQE, CQA, CMQ/OE, or Lean Six Sigma certification.

Responsibilities

• Integrate business-unit quality assurance with client, contract, industry, and project-specific requirements.
• Develop and maintain the project Quality Management System and site-specific Quality Management Plan in alignment with ISO 9001 principles, CSIA Best Practices, applicable PMI practices, contractual requirements, and customer standards.
• Establish quality controls for design reviews, panel fabrication, software development, PLC/HMI/SCADA standards, network configuration, installation, inspection, testing, and commissioning.
• Lead FAT, IFAT, site acceptance testing, and Levels 3 through 5 commissioning to verify sequences, alarms, interlocks, redundancy, recovery, failover, availability, and resilience requirements.
• Verify compliance with applicable electrical-safety, cybersecurity, commissioning, and high-availability requirements, including NFPA 70E, ISA/IEC 62443, Uptime Institute Tier, and ANSI/TIA-942 criteria where contractually required.
• Lead audits, management reviews, root-cause analysis, containment, corrective and preventive actions, and verification of effectiveness for quality and commissioning issues.
• Define and analyze quality KPIs, including first-pass yield, nonconformance trends, rework, defect density, closure aging, and recurrence rates.
• Manage document and configuration control for design packages, test records, redlines, as-built documents, network diagrams, hardware, software, firmware, PLC logic, SCADA graphics, and approved changes.
• Serve as the primary quality contact for clients and coordinate requirements, audits, nonconformances, corrective actions, and escalations.
• Work with procurement and panel fabrication teams to qualify and monitor suppliers, third-party panel shops, component vendors, and subcontractors using risk-based criteria, performance scorecards, audits, and corrective-action follow-up.
• Train engineering, fabrication, field, and commissioning teams on quality, testing, document control, configuration management, and mission-critical reliability practices.
• Embody E Tech Group’s core values, prioritizing the success of the company and its clients and the professional development of its associates.

Benefits

• 401(k) with company match and prompt enrollment; employees are 100% vested upon entry.
• Prompt enrollment in medical, dental, and vision benefits.
• Generous paid time off, including paid vacation, paid holidays, paid family leave, and sick time off.
• Training and continuing education from day one, with opportunities for career advancement.

What This Job Offers

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