Senior Engineering Quality Leader

Integra • Houston, TX

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About The Position

The Senior Engineering Quality Leader establishes and leads the quality strategy, governance, and execution model across engineering disciplines. The role ensures that designs, technical deliverables, specifications, and other engineering outputs meet customer requirements, regulatory expectations, internal standards, and project execution needs. It partners with Engineering, Manufacturing, Construction, Project Management, Supplier Quality, Procurement, Commissioning, and Operations to embed quality in design development, technical reviews, change control, risk management, and lessons learned.

The role leads and develops the Engineering Quality function, establishes objectives and performance indicators, and reports quality performance, risks, corrective actions, and improvement priorities to senior leadership. It builds quality into engineering work products; governs design reviews, technical quality gates, deliverable reviews, change control, and release readiness; and integrates engineering requirements into the Quality Management System.

The leader drives early risk identification and prevention, facilitates root cause analysis and corrective actions, ensures deliverables are ready for downstream project phases, and maintains compliance and audit-ready records. The role also uses data and continuous improvement to reduce recurring issues and cost of poor quality, improve handoffs and first-pass deliverable quality, and advance engineering quality maturity through training, standardization, digital tools, lessons learned, and quality culture development.

Integra delivers turnkey data center solutions, managing phases from site selection and design through manufacturing, procurement, commissioning, and warranty. The company describes its culture as collaborative, accountable, and focused on continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Quality Engineering, or a related field.
• At least 8 years of progressive engineering quality, product quality, or design quality experience.
• At least 3 years of leadership experience.
• Strong understanding of project/construction engineering and product development processes.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams and influencing at executive and operational levels.
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification.

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree.
• Experience implementing engineering quality standards and management systems in high-risk industries such as construction, engineering, or manufacturing.
• Comprehensive understanding of industry standards and compliance requirements, such as ISO, FDA, GMP, and project commissioning standards.
• Experience managing teams and fostering cross-functional collaboration.
• Proficiency in product lifecycle management, configuration management, risk management, and quality assurance methodologies such as Six Sigma and Lean.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, and organizational skills.
• Ability to thrive under pressure and manage multiple projects simultaneously.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the Engineering Quality function through direction, coaching, performance management, and capability development.
• Set measurable objectives, priorities, and key performance indicators aligned with enterprise quality goals, project outcomes, and customer expectations.
• Provide senior leadership with updates on engineering quality performance, risks, corrective actions, and improvement priorities.
• Develop and implement an engineering quality strategy that builds quality into designs, standards, specifications, drawings, calculations, BIM deliverables, and other engineering work products.
• Establish governance for design reviews, technical quality gates, engineering deliverable reviews, design change control, and release readiness.
• Support and facilitate engineering quality standards, procedures, checklists, and acceptance criteria aligned with applicable requirements.
• Integrate engineering quality requirements into the Quality Management System and ensure consistent application across projects, product lines, and engineering teams.
• Drive early risk identification and prevention through design reviews, FMEA, constructability reviews, lessons learned, error-proofing, and technical risk assessments.
• Ensure engineering deliverables are complete, accurate, traceable, and ready for manufacturing, procurement, construction, commissioning, and customer acceptance.
• Facilitate root cause analysis and corrective actions for engineering-driven quality issues, including design errors, technical nonconformances, rework, field issues, and customer-impacting defects.
• Establish feedback loops from manufacturing, construction, commissioning, service, and customer experience to improve engineering standards and prevent recurrence.
• Ensure engineering processes comply with applicable codes, standards, customer specifications, contractual obligations, regulatory requirements, and internal quality policies.
• Support internal and external audits related to engineering quality, documentation control, design control, configuration management, and technical compliance.
• Ensure engineering quality records, approvals, technical deviations, waivers, and corrective actions are documented and audit-ready.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to align quality expectations across the full project lifecycle.
• Represent quality in engineering-related customer concerns, technical escalations, and cross-functional issue resolution.
• Promote clear ownership, decision rights, and accountability for engineering quality responsibilities across matrixed teams.
• Use data, metrics, and trend analysis to identify recurring issues, prioritize improvements, and reduce cost of poor quality.
• Establish continuous improvement rhythms and lead initiatives to strengthen design quality, engineering handoffs, standard work, technical review effectiveness, and first-pass deliverable quality.
• Advance engineering quality maturity through training, standardization, digital tools, lessons learned, and quality culture development.

Benefits

• Competitive pay with incentive opportunities that recognize results and contributions.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Life and disability insurance programs.
• Voluntary benefits options.
• Generous paid time off.
• Education assistance and tuition support.
• Retirement and savings programs.

What This Job Offers

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