Construction Manager

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Title: Construction Manager

Location: Phoenix, Arizona

Explain a typical day in the role.

• The QA/QC Manager starts the day by reviewing the project's active construction activities, inspection schedules, quality metrics, and any open quality concerns from the previous day. A morning site walk is conducted with contractors, field engineers, and construction managers to verify that ongoing work complies with project specifications, approved submittals, manufacturer requirements, and quality standards.
• Throughout the day, the QA/QC Manager performs field inspections across civil, structural, architectural, mechanical, electrical, and telecom scopes, identifying potential quality issues before they impact schedule, commissioning, or turnover milestones. They work closely with trade partners to resolve deficiencies, review corrective actions, and ensure non-conformance items are addressed promptly.
• A significant portion of the day is dedicated to reviewing quality documentation, including inspection reports, test results, torque logs, commissioning records, turnover packages, and as-built documentation. The QA/QC Manager verifies that documentation is accurate, complete, and ready to support future turnover and operational acceptance.
• The role also involves regular coordination meetings with Construction Managers, Project Engineers, Commissioning Managers, General Contractors, and Operations teams to discuss quality risks, upcoming inspections, turnover readiness, and critical path activities. When quality issues arise, the QA/QC Manager drives root-cause investigations and develops mitigation plans to prevent recurrence.
• Toward the end of the day, the QA/QC Manager updates quality tracking logs, punch list status, NCRs, and project dashboards, ensuring leadership has clear visibility into quality performance, outstanding risks, and readiness for commissioning and turnover.

Summary:

• The QA/QC Manager is responsible for leading quality assurance and quality control activities throughout all phases of data center construction. This role ensures work is installed in accordance with contract documents, approved submittals, manufacturer requirements, commissioning requirements, and client quality standards.
• The QA/QC Manager serves as the primary quality lead, driving defect prevention, inspections, documentation compliance, turnover readiness, and issue resolution across civil, structural, architectural, mechanical, electrical, and telecom scopes.

Key Responsibilities (Quality Management)

• Develop and execute project quality plans.
• Drive implementation of quality processes and inspection programs.
• Lead quality audits and field inspections.
• Identify trends and recurring quality issues and implement corrective actions.
• Track NCRs (Non-Conformance Reports) through closure.

Construction Quality Oversight

• Perform routine site walks with contractors, designers, vendors, and commissioning teams.
• Verify installations comply with drawings, specifications, approved submittals, and manufacturer requirements.
• Validate testing, inspections, torque verification, and installation records.
• Monitor workmanship quality across all trade partners. Documentation & Compliance
• Ensure quality documentation is complete, accurate, and uploaded to required systems.
• Review inspection reports, test reports, turnover packages, redlines, and as-built documentation.
• Verify closeout and turnover deliverables satisfy contract requirements.
• Maintain quality metrics and project dashboards.

Turnover & Commissioning Support

• Partner with Commissioning and Operations teams to ensure systems are ready for acceptance.
• Participate in pre-functional, functional, and integrated systems testing activities.
• Drive punch list closure and turnover readiness.
• Support Operations acceptance reviews and readiness assessments.

Stakeholder Coordination

• Work closely with Construction Managers, Project Engineers, Contractors, Commissioning Managers, Design teams, and Operations.
• Lead quality-focused meetings and communicate risks to leadership.
• Escalate quality issues that impact safety, schedule, reliability, or turnover milestones.

What is the ideal background of a candidate for this role?:

Typical Deliverables

• Quality inspection reports
• NCR tracking and closure
• Audit reports
• Turnover readiness assessments
• Punch list management
• Quality dashboards and KPIs
• Testing and inspection documentation reviews
• Vendor and contractor quality assessments

Performance Measures

• Zero critical quality escapes.
• NCR closure cycle time.
• Punch list closure performance.
• Turnover acceptance readiness.
• Documentation completeness.
• Audit and inspection compliance.
• Reduction of rework and repeat findings.

The ideal candidate :: Has 10+ years of construction experience with at least 5 years focused on Quality Assurance/Quality Control, Commissioning, Field Engineering, or Construction Management on large-scale mission-critical projects. Experience delivering hyperscale data centers is strongly preferred.

Candidates from the following backgrounds are typically the best fit:

• QA/QC Manager on data center, semiconductor, pharmaceutical, or industrial facilities
• Mechanical or Electrical Field Engineer with strong commissioning and turnover experience
• Construction Manager responsible for quality, inspections, and closeout activities
• Commissioning Engineer or Commissioning Manager with construction quality responsibilities
• General Contractor quality leader supporting large mission-critical programsThe successful candidate should possess:
• Strong understanding of mechanical, electrical, and building systems
• Experience reviewing drawings, specifications, submittals, and test reports
• Knowledge of inspection and testing requirements, commissioning processes, and turnover documentation
• Experience managing punch lists, NCRs, corrective actions, and quality audits
• Ability to identify construction quality risks early and drive resolution with contractors
• Excellent communication and coordination skills across Construction, Design, Commissioning, Operations, and Trade Partners.

Preferred Industry Experience

• Hyperscale Data Centers
• Mission Critical Facilities
• Semiconductor Manufacturing
• Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
• Critical Infrastructure Projects
• Large Industrial Construction Key Traits
• Detail-oriented and process-driven
• Strong field presence and willingness to challenge poor-quality work
• Proactive problem solver
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced construction environment
• Able to influence contractors without direct authority
• Focused on turnover readiness, reliability, and operational excellence.
• The best candidate is someone who can walk a project, identify quality issues before they become commissioning or turnover problems, and drive contractors to resolve them while maintaining schedule commitments.

Top 3 Must-Have HARD Skills

• Data Center / Mission-Critical Construction QA/QC - 5+ years of experience managing quality programs, inspections, audits, and contractor compliance on large-scale data center, industrial, or mission-critical construction projects.
• Mechanical & Electrical Systems Expertise - 7+ years of experience overseeing installation, testing, and quality verification of complex MEP, controls, and telecommunications systems.
• Commissioning, Turnover & Documentation Management - 5+ years of experience supporting commissioning, turnover readiness, closeout documentation, test reports, and operational acceptance processes.

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Salary Range: $1,60,000 - 1,70,000 Annually -Factors that may affect pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience, and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

Benefits: The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: (medical insurance) (dental insurance) (vision insurance) (401(k) retirement plan) (long-term disability insurance) (short-term disability insurance) (5 personal days accrued each calendar year). The paid time off benefits meet the paid sick and safe time laws that pertain to the City/ State) (10-15 days of paid vacation time) (6 paid holidays and 1 floating holiday per calendar year)

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