E and I QC Manager - Data Center

Electrical & Instrumentation Quality Control Manager - Data Center Experience

Location: Abernathy/Colorado City, TX

Employment Type: Full-Time

Compensation Notes: $150 x 7 per diem.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the E&I QA/QC program for assigned divisions and projects.
• Lead and coordinate E&I quality personnel performing audits, inspections, surveillance, testing, and documentation.
• Interpret contract quality requirements, drawings, specifications, and inspection/testing requirements.
• Support inspection and test plans, quality checklists, turnover packages, NCRs, corrective actions, punch lists, and quality records.
• Coordinate third-party E&I testing agencies and support electrical/instrumentation testing, commissioning, and turnover activities.
• Interface with corporate quality leadership, project management, construction teams, subcontractors, vendors, and client representatives.
• Troubleshoot field quality issues and ensure timely resolution and closeout.
• Track, maintain, and report E&I quality metrics to divisional and corporate leadership.
• Prepare weekly quality reports identifying issues, trends, corrective actions, and improvement opportunities.
• Train project and field personnel on quality program requirements, documentation standards, and inspection expectations.
• Support the company’s commitment to quality, safety, productivity, and team-based execution.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of E&I Quality Management experience in industrial construction, oil and gas, energy, maintenance, or EPC environments.
• Strong knowledge of electrical and instrumentation construction quality control.
• Working knowledge of the National Electrical Code.
• Practical knowledge of NFPA 70E and electrical safe work practices.
• Experience managing E&I inspectors, field quality personnel, subcontractor quality performance, or third-party testing resources.
• Ability to read and interpret IFC drawings, specifications, inspection requirements, test procedures, and project quality documentation.
• Experience with electrical and instrumentation installation, inspection, testing, commissioning, and turnover.
• Strong documentation skills, including inspection records, test packages, NCRs, punch lists, corrective actions, and quality metrics.
• Strong communication, leadership, and problem-solving skills.
• High commitment to safety, quality, productivity, and field execution.
• Ability to travel to project sites as required.
• Satisfactory completion of a background screen.

Preferred Experience

• Permian Basin, midstream, upstream, downstream, terminal, gas processing, pipeline, power, or heavy industrial project experience.
• Experience with switchgear, MCCs, transformers, grounding, cable tray, raceway, terminations, torque documentation, megger testing, continuity testing, and energization packages.
• Experience with instrumentation and controls quality, including loop checks, calibration records, instrument index verification, I/O checkout, P&ID walkdowns, control panels, FAT/SAT documentation, and commissioning support.
• Experience coordinating electrical acceptance testing or third-party testing agencies.
• Experience supporting quality programs aligned with ISO 9001, ASQ, ANSI, or formal corporate quality management systems.
• Experience leading quality personnel across multiple projects or divisions.

This is a Louisiana-based fabrication operation with a recognizable industrial name and a substantial shop footprint. It builds large, engineered piping assemblies for major industrial projects, and recent announcements suggest they are expanding into both power generation and more specialized work such as pharmaceutical piping.