Quality Engineer Jobs

Shimmick is seeking a highly talented Quality Engineer to be based out of Chattanooga, TN. This challenging position will provide an excellent growth opportunity while improving the infrastructure of the city.

At Shimmick, we are problem solvers. Creative thinkers. Innovators. We approach each project with fresh ideas and big thinking in pursuit of better answers, better outcomes, and better experiences for our clients. We are resourceful, nimble and resilient. We work hard together—and with our clients—to deliver high-quality projects that are on time, on budget and beyond expectations.

National Division

Shimmick’s National Division operates throughout the central and eastern U.S. Comprised of legacy companies, such as Morrison Knudsen, Washington Group, and others, this division has decades-long history of delivering successful transportation, transit, mining infrastructure, and water resources projects. In addition to state DOTs and transit agencies, the National Division has delivered more than $5 billion in work for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, primarily in the water resources (dams, reservoirs, locks, levees) sector. The National Division is delivering Oklahoma Turnpike Authority’s first build-finance project, the $260 million Gilcrease Expressway project in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Responsibilities

The responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to the following:

• Under general supervision, performs routine duties.
• Analyzes, evaluates and plans methods of approach, as well as organizes means to achieve solution of complex technical problems.
• Reviews project process and evaluate results.
• Technically supervises quality projects or major phases of significant quality projects, coordinating the efforts of technical support staff in the performance of assigned project.
• Performs quantity surveys for tracking and reporting.
• Displays applications of sound professional judgment on details of work.
• Makes frequent decisions using principles and professional independent judgment.
• Develops and applies advanced quality assurance/control theories, as well as research techniques in the investigation and solution of complex and advanced technical problems on the forefront of new technologies.
• Evaluates vendor capabilities to provide required products or services.
• Conducts investigations and tests that are of considerable complexity.
• Independently performs walk-downs and inspections of installed commodities to assure conformance with specifications and design.
• Provides technical consultation to lower level engineers, technicians and inspectors.
• Provides leadership for new systems, development, proposals, implementation, procedures and any related quality activity.
• Possesses and applies comprehensive knowledge to the completion of significant quality assignments.
• Provides leadership for quality assurance and quality control support on assigned program(s) and/or areas to ensure that the project is designed, procured and installed in accordance with customer and company quality requirements.
• Displays knowledge and abilities to evaluate, select and apply standard engineering techniques, procedures and criteria to meet basic engineering and construction specifications.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:

• Demonstrated equivalency is 8 years of experience supervising mechanical or electrical work for a construction company
• Bachelors Degree in Engineering, Construction Management, or related field + 4 years of relevant experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience in heavy civil construction
• Mechanical or Electrical Engineering Degree

Additional Information

• This position does not include sponsorship for United States work authorization.
• Qualified applicants who are offered a position must pass a pre-employment substance abuse test.

Shimmick's comprehensive benefits plan includes medical, dental and vision coverage; as well as options to participate in an FSA or HSA. The Company also provides employer paid STD, LTD, basic life and AD&D, and an Employee Assistance Program. Additional voluntary benefit offerings include pet insurance, hospital indemnity, critical illness insurance, legal and identity theft protection.

These benefits are available to all employees working more than 20 hours per week. Employees working less than 20 hours per week are eligible for medical, dental and vision coverage as well as EAP services.

Notice To Third Party Agencies

Please note that Shimmick does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of a signed Recruitment Fee Agreement, Shimmick will not consider or agree to payment of any referral compensation or recruiter fee. In the event a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without a previously signed agreement, Shimmick explicitly reserves the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of Shimmick.

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