Regional Quality Director - Energy

Position Overview

Kiewit is seeking a highly experienced Regional Quality Director to provide strategic leadership, governance, and execution oversight for quality across a designated Power Market region. This senior leadership role is responsible for driving quality excellence, ensuring consistent implementation of Kiewit's Quality Management System, and fostering a culture of quality across multiple projects and business units.

The Regional Quality Director serves as the senior quality leader for the region and may be responsible for direct oversight of multiple project quality teams and Quality Managers. Depending on business needs, this individual may also be assigned to lead quality execution on one of Kiewit's largest and most complex mega-projects, typically valued at $2 billion or greater.

District Overview

Kiewit’s Quality Group is a shared service that maintains and executes quality standards on projects across the company. Our principal quality objectives are to meet or exceed clients’ expectations and to eliminate rework by performing our work “right the first time.” We monitor our performance against these objectives and require continual improvement. 

Location

This position will be a field based role and required to travel to projects across the US. 

Responsibilities

Regional Quality Leadership
•    Provide strategic leadership and direction for quality performance across a portfolio of projects within the assigned region.
•    Establish and maintain regional quality objectives aligned with corporate quality initiatives and business goals.
•    Ensure consistent implementation and continuous improvement of Kiewit's Quality Management System (QMS).
•    Drive a proactive culture of quality, defect prevention, and continuous improvement throughout the organization.
•    Serve as the regional subject matter expert and trusted advisor on quality-related matters.
Project Oversight
•    Provide governance, oversight, and support to project Quality Managers and quality teams.
•    Review project quality performance metrics, trends, and risk indicators to identify opportunities for improvement.
•    Conduct project assessments, audits, and management reviews to verify compliance with quality requirements.
•    Partner with project leadership to develop corrective actions and sustainable solutions to quality challenges.
•    Support project pursuit, planning, and execution efforts to ensure quality requirements are effectively integrated throughout the project lifecycle.
Mega-Project Quality Leadership
•    When assigned, serve as the Quality Director or senior quality leader for major EPC projects exceeding $2 billion in value.
•    Develop and execute comprehensive project quality strategies and execution plans.
•    Lead large project quality organizations consisting of Quality Managers, inspectors, engineers, and quality specialists.
•    Interface directly with clients, regulatory agencies, joint venture partners, and executive leadership regarding quality performance.
•    Ensure project quality objectives, contractual requirements, and customer expectations are achieved.
Leadership & Talent Development
•    Lead, mentor, and develop quality professionals across the region.
•    Support succession planning, workforce development, and organizational capability growth.
•    Recruit, retain, and develop top quality talent.
•    Promote knowledge sharing and implementation of lessons learned across projects and regions.
Stakeholder Management
•    Build strong relationships with operations leadership, project teams, clients, suppliers, and subcontractors.
•    Partner with Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Safety, and Operations leadership to drive integrated project success.
•    Represent the quality organization during executive reviews, customer meetings, and strategic planning discussions.

Qualifications

•    Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Quality Management, or related field. Equivalent industry experience may be considered.
•    Minimum 15 years of progressive quality management experience within the construction industry.
•    Demonstrated experience supporting large-scale Power, Industrial, Oil, Gas & Chemical (OGC), EPC, or heavy civil construction projects.
•    Proven leadership experience managing quality organizations across multiple projects and/or major capital projects.
•    Strong working knowledge of quality management systems, quality assurance, quality control, auditing, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement methodologies.
•    Experience interfacing directly with clients, executive leadership, and regulatory agencies.
•    Ability to travel extensively throughout the assigned region and project locations as required.

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