MEP Quality Manager

Overview

Job Summary Provides leadership, coordination, guidance, and technical expertise in all areas of quality, with a strong emphasis on MEP systems and mission-critical data center environments. Responsible for the daily operations of the project’s quality program, ensuring all quality policies, procedures, and practices are consistently implemented. Develops and administers quality-related processes, techniques, and initiatives to ensure all work—especially MEP and commissioning-critical scopes—meets or exceeds project requirements, industry standards, and stringent data-center owner expectations.

Job Title: MEP Quality Manager
Location: Alexandria, LA

• Works with project managers, superintendents, MEP coordinators, commissioning teams, and subcontractors to develop processes that achieve 100% compliant work in a mission-critical environment.
• Collaborates closely with MEP and low-voltage trade partners to ensure proper installation, testing, and documentation of mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire protection, BMS/EPMS, and critical power systems.
• Acts as an advocate for Yates Construction by promoting quality and corporate ethics as core values.
• Maintains active relationships with engineers, commissioning agents, consultants, and industry associations relevant to data-center construction.
• Assists teams in developing project-specific Quality Management Plans, including data-center-specific MEP and commissioning requirements.
• Ensures project teams follow their Quality Management Plans and mission-critical quality protocols.
• Builds and maintains system templates for DFOW activities, including MEP DFOWs such as electrical distribution, UPS systems, generator installations, chilled water systems, CRAH/CRAC units, and equipment startup procedures.
• Prepares DFOW documentation for MEP and mission-critical scopes as required.
• Conducts site visits and inspections of work in place, with a focus on MEP installations, equipment placement, system routing, and compliance with data-center standards.
• Assists teams with plan and constructability reviews, including MEP coordination drawings, BIM clash detection, and system integration for high-density environments.
• Reads and understands specifications, reference codes, and standards related to mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire protection, low-voltage, and mission-critical systems.
• Reviews and interprets contract drawings, including MEP shop drawings, submittals, commissioning plans, and equipment data sheets.
• Provides training and coaching to project teams to identify key quality risks, especially those associated with mission-critical MEP systems, redundancy requirements, and commissioning milestones.
• Assists teams with risk prevention planning for issues such as equipment lead times, installation tolerances, system testing, and energization sequencing.
• Works with the Quality and Construction Science Department to leverage technology (BIM, QA/QC software, testing tools) to reduce risk and improve MEP and data-center quality outcomes.
• Acts independently as CQCM while coordinating all QC functions without delaying construction schedules.
• Identifies, documents, and communicates deficiencies—including MEP and commissioning-related deficiencies—and ensures timely correction (NCR Log).
• Maintains accurate records providing factual evidence that required quality control activities and tests (e.g., pressure tests, megger tests, load bank tests, TAB reports, integrated systems testing) have been performed.
• Reviews MEP and mission-critical shop drawings and submittals for conformance with project specifications and contract requirements.
• Initiates and manages the three-phase inspection process for all MEP and mission-critical DFOW activities.
• Conducts daily observations to ensure all phases of inspection are implemented and documented.
• Examines work areas to confirm MEP and critical-system installations meet contract requirements and resolves discrepancies.
• Conducts and chairs Preparatory Meetings for MEP and mission-critical DFOW activities.
• Chairs and documents weekly QC meetings with internal teams, subcontractor quality representatives,…