Site Quality Manager

Job Description

The Site Quality Manager is responsible for leading all aspects of the Quality Management Program for a multi-billion-dollar data center campus construction project. This position provides strategic and operational leadership to ensure construction, testing, commissioning, and turnover activities are executed in compliance with project requirements, client standards, applicable codes, contractual obligations, and Fluor quality processes.

The Site Quality Manager serves as the primary quality representative for the project and works closely with the client, engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and trade contractor organizations to drive quality performance across the entire project lifecycle. This role is critical in ensuring first-time quality execution, minimizing rework, improving schedule certainty, and delivering mission-critical facilities that meet stringent reliability and operational performance requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the implementation, execution, and continuous improvement of the Project Quality Management System for a large-scale data center construction program.
• Develop and execute project-specific quality strategies that support safe, efficient, and defect-free construction and turnover.
• Manage, mentor, and develop a multidisciplinary team of quality professionals including quality engineers, inspectors, document control personnel, and subcontractor quality representatives.
• Establish clear quality expectations and accountability across all project participants, including Fluor personnel, subcontractors, suppliers, and commissioning teams.
• Serve as the primary quality interface with the client, participating in executive reviews, quality leadership meetings, audits, and project performance discussions.
• Ensure compliance with contract requirements, client data center standards, engineering specifications, applicable building codes, industry standards, and regulatory requirements.
• Oversee implementation of Inspection and Test Plans (ITPs), quality surveillance programs, audit programs, and quality verification activities.
• Lead quality planning efforts for critical mission-critical systems including electrical distribution, substations, generators, UPS systems, battery systems, switchgear, network infrastructure, mechanical cooling systems, fire protection, and building automation systems.
• Ensure quality requirements are effectively integrated into procurement, fabrication, installation, testing, commissioning, and turnover processes.
• Direct the management of nonconformance reporting, corrective actions, root cause analysis, and lessons learned programs.
• Collaborate with construction, engineering, commissioning, and startup organizations to proactively identify risks and implement preventive quality measures.
• Monitor subcontractor and supplier quality performance through audits, assessments, inspections, and performance metrics.
• Ensure project turnover documentation, quality records, testing documentation, and commissioning packages meet client and contractual requirements.
• Drive digital quality initiatives and effective use of project quality management systems, reporting tools, and turnover platforms.
• Review quality trends and performance indicators and provide executive-level reporting to project management and client stakeholders.
• Ensure timely resolution and closure of punch list items, deficiencies, nonconformances, and quality-related risks.
• Support readiness reviews, system completions, commissioning activities, and facility turnover milestones.
• Promote a culture of quality excellence, continuous improvement, accountability, and ownership throughout the project organization.
• Other duties as assigned.

Basic Job Requirements

• Accredited four (4) degree or global equivalent in applicable field of study and sixteen (16) years of work-related experience or a combination of education and directly related experience equal to twenty (20) years if non-degreed; some locations may have additional or different qualifications in order to comply with local regulations

• Ability to communicate effectively with audiences that include but are not limited to management, coworkers, clients, vendors, contractors, and other stakeholders

• Job related technical knowledge necessary to complete the job

• Ability to learn and apply knowledge of applicable local, state/province, and federal/national statutes and guidelines

• Ability to attend to detail and work in a time-conscious and time-effective manner

Other Job Requirements

• Demonstrated experience leading quality programs on large-scale industrial, advanced technology, mission-critical, semiconductor, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, infrastructure, or data center construction projects.
• Experience managing quality organizations supporting projects exceeding $1 billion in total installed cost.
• Strong understanding of mission-critical systems construction, testing, commissioning, and turnover methodologies.
• Knowledge of applicable quality management principles, including ISO 9001 and industry best practices.
• Experience leading contractor quality audits, supplier assessments, surveillance programs, and corrective action processes.
• Proven ability to interface effectively with executive client leadership and senior project stakeholders.
• Experience utilizing digital quality management and turnover systems.
• Ability to analyze quality performance metrics and implement continuous improvement initiatives.
• Drive development of the safety culture on the project.
• Promote collaboration between engineering, construction, commissioning, and operations teams to achieve successful project delivery.
• Responsible for client relations on assigned projects.
• Willingness to travel and work on-site for the duration of a major project assignment.

Preferred Qualifications

• ASQ Certified Quality Manager (CMQ/OE), Certified Quality Engineer (CQE), or equivalent certification.
• Previous experience on hyperscale or enterprise data center projects.
• Experience supporting integrated commissioning and systems completion programs.
• Strong knowledge of electrical and mechanical systems associated with mission-critical facilities.
• Experience leading quality programs through substantial completion, commissioning, and operational turnover.