Posting Title: Project Quality Manager - Data Center
Reports To: Division Quality Manager
Location: New Albany, Ohio
Salary Range: $100,000 to $135,000
*This position is eligible for the annual performance bonus plan.
Final determination of a successful candidate's starting pay will vary based on a number of factors, including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, education and experience. The pay scale listed for this position is generally for candidates that meet the specified qualifications and requirements listed on this specific job description. We provide a competitive compensation package that recognizes your experience, credentials, and education alongside a robust benefits program to meet your needs. Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets.
WHO WE ARE
For more than 70 years, Cupertino Electric, Inc. (CEI) has been powered by people who've built a reputation for delivering high-profile, complex projects. Real, tangible things that alter the landscape and improve lives. But even more than that, we've built a reputation for integrity. We're problem solvers and innovation seekers. We're team players and safety fanatics. And we always-always-do the right thing. Even when no one is looking. Because what we do here is important, but how we do it is everything.
THE PRODUCTION TEAM
The Production Team is responsible for overseeing Cupertino Electric's Field workforce, ensuring that all projects are executed with the high standards of safety, productivity, scheduling, quality and cost control. Our team is dedicated to operational excellence, maintaining tight control over project execution from start to finish. We take pride in developing and deploying the best Field Managers in the industry, leaders who drive performance, uphold standards, and deliver successful project outcomes.
ABOUT THE ROLE
The role of the Quality Department Project Manager is to support the projects assigned. This supporting role is an extension of the Division Quality Manager (DQM) and reports directly to that divisional lead. Working as a Quality Department Project Manager, you will assist in the standardization of processes and procedures across your division. This role will also be responsible for assisting with the training and developing the Onsite Quality Managers (OQM) and onsite QA/QC Project Managers in CEI's quality program, Quality Culture, integrated software utilizations as well as performing audits for individual project performance.
Remote from Home office / Travel to Sites on regular cadence
Ensure execution of the CEI Quality Program within assigned projects.
Collaborate with onsite PM QA/QC Team Leads, Site Superintendents, and OQMs to review, update, and develop documentation and document control structures as needed.
Responsible for putting together Project Specific Quality Plans (PSQP) for upcoming projects.
Ensure that the PSQPs are being put together in line with corporate, divisional and customer requirements.
Ensure that the PSQP is understood, and executed in real-time during construction phases, not as an afterthought post- construction completion.
Work closely with CEI Division Quality Manager (DQM) to implement and improve all QA/QC workflow processes.
Contribute to Divisional QA/QC lessons learned and best practices derived from personal experience, past and current project-specific lessons learned as well as input from Production and PM teams on assigned projects in the division.
Work closely with the Project Management & Production Dept. to develop methods to categorize, perform cost/savings estimates, and track re-work with the objective of preventing future re-work.
Focus on tracking rework costs stemmed from quality inspections, including projected rework savings.
Track QA/QC teams progress and work to establish labor units and costs associated with quality scopes.
Collaborate directly with the client/owner on all assigned projects and serve as the subject matter expert to facilitate updates and changes needed to individual projects or client portfolios.
Ensure the proper execution of CEI-approved vendor and subcontractor quality programs.
The Quality Department Project Manager shall be responsible for subcontractors' QA/QC documents and ensure they comply with contract docs and CEI QMS and meet quality standards, prior to and during construction.
Support needs with the onsite QA/QC PM lead, Site Superintendents and OQMs for technical oversight of major equipment designs and factory acceptance tests as requested.
Accountable for establishing technical oversight and support of 'First in Place' inspections on assigned projects.
Ensuring that all work post First in Place (FIP) work matches the FIP-approved installation.
Work with onsite QA/QC PM lead, Site Superintendents and OQMs to Optimize photo-documentation processes/procedures ensure QC photo-documentation meets Quality Program and contractual requirements.
Ensure that the onsite QA/QC PM lead, Site Superintendents and OQMs are receiving OFCI and CFCI equipment on-site, and that the product meets intended specifications and arrives in the expected condition.
Ensure proper handling, storage and protection of materials and equipment, aligning with project specifications as well as manufactures recommendations.
Work with onsite QA/QC PM lead, Site Superintendents and OQMs to pre-populate CVD documents with site-specific criteria or data for installation verifications.
Implement Quality Management Tool (QMT) [BIM360/ACC] on projects to transition from paper to electronic platform for all inspections and issue tracking.
Train and develop all parties working within the QMT on the use and execution of the program.
Ensure checklists are being performed and tracked in the QMT.
Ensure the mandatory Issue Tracking module in QMT is being utilized and managed properly on all assigned projects.
Ensure Asset Tracking is properly being utilized and follows a standard corporate approach.
Ensure OQM supports the closeout process from a field QA/QC Perspective
Ensure OQM reviews, redlines, and as-builts reflect actual installation in the field throughout the project inspections.
Ensure there is a proper tracking log (Smartsheet) to maintain records for calibration of tools that meets or exceeds contract requirements and CEIs expectations.
Attend quality meetings as required.
Project Kick off Meetings.
Weekly site 5x5 Meetings
Client / Owner Quality Meetings
Lessons Learned Meetings
Corrective Action Meetings
Regular cadence project document update meetings
Ensure that CEIs Quality Inspections have been incorporated into the project milestone schedules and that inspections are scheduled in enough time to allow OQM teams to perform inspections.
Work with the site production team to incorporate inspection scheduling items into the master P6 schedule template and ensure items are captured in the project schedule.
Work with OQM to maintain an internal 3-week look ahead of upcoming work to be inspected and ensure communication of weekly progress updates to the onsite QA/QC PM lead and Site Superintendent.
Work with site production team to ensure labor units have been incorporated into the schedule and able to do percent complete for WLA.
Work with the OQM on established method to track internal inspections (Smartsheet), as well as third party / owner coordination for inspections to take place on projects.
Review, manage and implement Inspection Testing and Commissioning Plans (ITCP) for quality milestones and activities driven by specifications and contract language.
Work with onsite DQM, Production and Project management teams to perform Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for deficiencies exceeding the identified threshold through the corporate QMS plan.
Oversee Root Cause Analysis Meetings
Work with onsite Project Management team and associated vendors to review quality plans and identify, track, and manage resolution/issuance of Non-Conformance reports for deficient items.
Proactively manages people and resources within the assigned region to support Production and Project Management on Quality goals.
Develop and maintain a file documentation structure and process for project closeout for quality related items (Egnyte).
Torque, Continuity, Megger Report repository
Repository for completed CVDs etc.
Knowledge: Having wide-ranging experience, uses professional concepts and company objectives to resolve complex issues in creative and effective ways. Some barriers to entry exist at this level (e.g., dept/peer review).
Job Complexity: Works on complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors. Exercises judgment in selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results. Networks with key contacts outside own area of expertise.
Supervision: Determines methods and procedures on new assignments and may coordinate activities of other personnel (Team Lead).
ABOUT YOU
Knowledge of building construction, materials, systems, and trade practices related to data center construction.
Excellent oral and written skills required.
Excellent organizational skills. Ability to analyze data to proactively identify trends.
Excellent critical thinking skills, solution oriented.
Software: Microsoft Suite, Primavera P6, Blue Beam, ACC, Smartsheet, Egnyte, Procore, CX Alloy
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Any combination of education and experience that would likely provide the required knowledge, skills and abilities as well as possession of any required licenses or certifications is qualifying.
Education: Bachelor's degree or industry experience.
Experience: 10 years of project engineering, field management or project management in the electrical energy industry. 5 years' experience with Quality Assurance and Quality Control best practices.
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CEI is a place where every single person can-and does-have an impact on the work we do and the communities we serve. Here, you can build your own story and grow to your full potential. You can collaborate and celebrate with amazing people. And you'll go home every day knowing you helped contribute to important work that shapes people's lives. Our commercial, data center and energy projects may be complex, but our approach is simple. We build great things and we do it with great people.
The job duties listed are typical examples of work performed by positions in this job classification and are not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, tasks, and responsibilities. Specific duties and responsibilities may vary depending on department, program or project needs without changing the general nature and scope of the job or level of responsibility. Employees may also perform other duties as assigned.
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