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About the Role

Mott MacDonald is seeking a Senior Quality Manager to lead quality initiatives across major infrastructure programs in North America. This role provides strategic and operational leadership, driving a culture of quality and continuous improvement while ensuring compliance with all requirements.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and implementation of Project Quality Management Plans (PQMPs), project quality objectives, KPIs, and reporting frameworks.
• Provide quality leadership and independent oversight across planning, design, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, and handover activities.
• Ensure compliance with client, contractual, regulatory, and corporate quality requirements.
• Lead quality audits, surveillance activities, supplier assessments, and assurance reviews across major projects.
• Manage non-conformances, corrective actions, root-cause investigations, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Oversee quality documentation, inspection and test plans (ITPs), quality work plans, and quality control processes.
• Monitor contractor, consultant, and supplier quality performance and identify emerging risks and improvement opportunities.
• Support program assurance, stage-gate reviews, risk management processes, and project governance activities.
• Develop quality dashboards, metrics, and performance reporting for project and executive leadership teams.
• Act as the primary quality representative with clients, regulators, contractors, and delivery partners.
• Deliver quality training, mentoring, and best-practice guidance to project teams.
• Capture lessons learned and drive continuous improvement across major projects and programs.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Quality Management, or a related discipline; Master's degree preferred.
• 15+ years of quality management experience supporting major infrastructure, transportation, rail, transit, aviation, highway, water, energy, or multidisciplinary engineering programs.
• Demonstrated experience developing and implementing Quality Management Plans, Quality Assurance programs, audit programs, and corrective action processes.
• Experience leading quality oversight across owners, contractors, consultants, regulators, and third-party reviewers.
• Strong knowledge of ISO 9001, quality management systems, quality assurance and quality control practices, auditing, risk-based quality planning, and continuous improvement methodologies.
• Experience supporting Design-Bid-Build, Design-Build, Progressive Design-Build, CM/GC, and P3 delivery models.
• Proven leadership, stakeholder management, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Professional certifications such as CMQ/OE, ISO 9001 Lead Auditor, PMP, PE, Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt are highly desirable.
• Experience supporting programs exceeding $100M in capital value is an advantage.
• Familiarity with engineering design quality, construction quality management, configuration management, compliance management, and quality performance reporting.

Skills

• Quality Management
• ISO 9001
• Quality Assurance
• Quality Control
• Auditing
• Risk-based Quality Planning
• Continuous Improvement
• Leadership
• Stakeholder Management
• Communication
• Problem-solving

Location

• North America

Work Type

• Hybrid
• Full-time

Experience Level

• Senior
• 15+ years

Education Level

• Bachelor's degree
• Master's degree preferred

Salary/Compensations

• $160,000 - $210,000

Benefits

• Personal and group performance bonuses
• 401k
• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Short-term disability
• Long-term disability
• Paid holidays
• PTO
• Parental leave
• Company paid life insurance

About the Company

• Mott MacDonald is one of the largest employee-owned companies in the world, providing engineering, management, and development services.
• They support multisector project work in over 150 countries with a network of over 20,000 talented consultants.
• Sustainability and innovation are central to their sectors in North America, including Buildings, Energy, Transportation, and Water.

Equal Opportunity

• All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, protected veteran status, creed, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status or disability status.