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We are currently requesting resumes for the following position: Quality Assurance Manager (QA Manager)

Resume Due Date: Monday, August 24th, 2026 (5:00PM EST)

Job ID: 819-001

Number of Vacancies: 1

Direct Reports: Director of Systems & Strategy

Duration: Full-Time, Permanent

Location: Ajax, Ontario (head office), with travel to active project sites across Ontario

Position Summary

• The Quality Assurance Manager leads the Quality function across a portfolio of concurrent nuclear and civil construction projects.
• Reporting directly to the Director of Systems & Strategy, this role owns the quality program end to end, from pre-bid and contract review through ITP development, execution, inspection, nonconformance and corrective action, vendor quality, and client and third-party audits.
• The QA Manager leads the QC team and serves as the company’s quality authority and primary QA interface with clients, designers, and contract administrators.

Key Responsibilities

• Quality program ownership: Own and continuously improve the QA/QC program within the IMS (ISO 9001, CSA N-series).
• Pre-bid & contract review: Lead contract and pre-bid quality reviews (contract review checklists, CSA N299 pre-bid reviews); identify contract-specific QA deliverables, testing, and warranty obligations from the contract.
• Quality planning: Develop, review, and approve Inspection & Test Plans (ITPs), Project-Specific Quality Plans and work quality documents; define hold and witness points and coordinate client/designer approval.
• Nonconformance & corrective action: Manage NCRs and CAPAs to closure with disciplined root-cause analysis and verification of effectiveness.
• Inspection & surveillance: Oversee inspection, testing, and quality surveillance across active sites; conduct and coordinate quality surveillance reports (QSRs) and material verification.
• Vendor & subcontractor quality: Maintain the Approved Vendor List; manage vendor evaluation and qualification and supplier nonconformances.
• Audits: Plan and conduct internal audits; host and support client, third-party, and registrar audits; drive findings to closure.
• Reporting: Provide QA inputs to management review and weekly executive/SLT reporting; produce the monthly QA report and maintain quality metrics.
• Client interface: Serve as the primary QA point of contact for clients and their designers/contract administrators (e.g., nuclear, CNL, Cameco, and Metrolinx-tier consortia).
• Special processes & qualifications: Ensure special processes and personnel/vendor qualifications (welding, NDE, concrete, coatings, etc.) are identified, controlled, and documented.
• Team leadership: Lead, mentor, and develop QC staff and build quality capability across project teams.
• Nuclear quality: Support nuclear quality requirements under the CSA N-series (N285 / N286 / N299), including CFSI, FME, and special-process controls where applicable.
• Document control: Maintain controlled quality documents and records within the IMS document-control framework.

Required Qualifications

• Proven leadership: Demonstrated success leading, mentoring, and developing quality staff and driving a quality culture across project teams, this is a leadership role first and foremost.
• Diploma or degree in engineering, construction, quality management, or a related field or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years in a QA/QC role in construction, industrial, or nuclear contracting, including 3+ years in a lead or management capacity.
• Demonstrated experience building and maintaining ITPs, PSSQPs, and NCR/CAPA systems, and interpreting contract quality requirements on lump-sum projects.
• Working knowledge of ISO 9001 and hands-on auditing capability; ISO 9001 internal auditor or lead auditor training.
• Ability to manage quality across multiple concurrent projects and mobilizations under schedule pressure.
• Excellent documentation, communication, and stakeholder-management skills; comfortable acting as a client-facing quality authority.
• Eligibility to obtain and maintain the security clearances and site-access qualifications required for nuclear facilities (e.g., nuclear, CNL, Cameco, BWXT).

Preferred qualifications

• Nuclear quality experience and familiarity with the CSA N-series (N285 / N286 / N299) in nuclear, CNL, Cameco, or BWXT environments is a strong asset.
• Professional certification: CQA / CQE / CQM (ASQ), welding inspection (CWB / CSA W178.2), or NDE familiarity.
• COR and ISO 45001 familiarity; experience in heavy civil (concrete, rebar, slab-on-grade) and/or transit (Metrolinx) programs.
• Experience mentoring QC staff and standing up or maturing quality processes in a growing organization.

Competencies & Fit

• Rigorous and detail-oriented, yet decisive under schedule pressure. Strong sense of ownership and the confidence to hold a quality position with clients and internal teams.
• A systems thinker who is comfortable operating within and improving a document-driven IMS, and who can move fluidly between nuclear-grade rigor and fast-moving civil mobilizations.

The Opportunity

• Take ownership of the quality program across an active and growing portfolio of nuclear and civil construction projects.
• Lead and develop the QC team and strengthen quality capability across project teams.
• Act as the company’s quality authority and a trusted QA partner to clients, designers, and contract administrators.
• Help shape and mature the Integrated Management System and quality program as the business grows.

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