Quality Control Manager

Job Title: Quality Control Manager Job Description The Quality Control Manager leads project-wide quality control efforts on large-scale Everglades restoration and pump station projects, ensuring all construction work complies with contract documents, approved plans, specifications, and the project Quality Control Plan. This role holds full authority to stop nonconforming work and is dedicated to quality control throughout production, playing a key part in delivering complex water/wastewater and heavy civil infrastructure safely, efficiently, and to the highest standards.

Responsibilities Administer the project Quality Control Plan and maintain complete and accurate quality records in the QCS database. Plan, conduct, and document preparatory, initial, and follow-up phases of control for each definable feature of work. Coordinate and lead follow-up, punch-list, pre-final, and final inspections to ensure all work meets contractual and quality requirements. Schedule and oversee independent testing laboratories, and maintain current testing and inspection plans for the project.

Maintain and update quality control plan revisions, submittal status logs, testing documentation, and daily construction reports. Review and certify submittals for compliance with contract requirements, specifications, and design intent. Lead recurring quality control meetings, prepare agendas, and issue clear and accurate meeting minutes. Verify that all required personnel, including inspectors and testing staff, are present during installation, inspection, and testing activities.

Direct assigned quality control staff and coordinate their responsibilities in alignment with contract and project requirements. Identify nonconforming work, exercise stop-work authority when necessary, and ensure corrective actions are implemented and documented. Review drawings, specifications, general conditions, inspection results, and test data to verify compliance with project requirements. Support preconstruction planning activities and actively participate in progress, preconstruction, and pre-award meetings.

Develop and maintain productive working relationships with clients, designers, subcontractors, vendors, and consultants. Enforce company safety requirements on site and stop work when observing or suspecting safety violations. Collaborate closely with the project team, including site safety, superintendent, project engineers, and administrative staff, to align quality control with overall project delivery.

Essential Skills Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Management, Mechanical Engineering, or a closely related field. Minimum of 5 years of relevant construction quality control experience, preferably on large infrastructure projects. Hands-on experience with U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, water management district, federal, state, and/or municipal construction projects. Direct experience in water/wastewater, pump station, lift station, and heavy civil construction environments.

Experience with grading, drainage, paving, bridges, retaining walls, underground utilities, plumbing, electrical, and mechanical scopes of work. Strong leadership skills with the ability to direct quality control staff and influence project teams toward high-quality outcomes. Proven decision-making and problem-solving abilities in a field construction setting. Excellent organization and time management skills, with the ability to manage multiple definable features of work and documentation requirements.

Clear and professional written and verbal communication skills for reports, meetings, and stakeholder interactions. Ability to maintain discretion and confidentiality while building effective relationships with clients, subcontractors, and vendors. Working knowledge of Microsoft Excel and Word for reporting, tracking, and documentation. Experience using construction-related software such as e-Builder, eCMS, and/or RMS.

Ability to read and interpret construction drawings, spec