Quality Engineering Manager - Data Centers

At E Tech Group, joining our team means joining a group of passionate and forward-thinking experts. We’re one of the largest engineering and system integration firms in the United States providing value for our clients through IT automation and control solutions for more than 30 years to the Life Sciences, Mission Critical, Metals & Mining, Warehousing & Distribution, and CPG/Food & Beverage industries. Our national and global scale allows us to help our clients develop and implement standardized solutions at any of their facilities regardless of physical location or the local resources available at that site. The Quality Control & Commissioning (Cx) Manager leads the program’s quality and commissioning function. This role integrates business-unit standards, supervises Quality Control Engineers, ensures project testing is consistent and auditable, coordinates with clients and project teams, and confirms systems are safe, reliable, and ready for turnover. You must be located near the Frederick, MD or Shippingport, PA area. You Will: Integrate business-unit quality assurance with client, contract, industry, and project-specific requirements. Develop and maintain the project Quality Management System and site-specific Quality Management Plan in alignment with ISO 9001 principles, CSIA Best Practices, applicable PMI practices, contractual requirements, and customer standards. Establish quality controls for design reviews, panel fabrication, software development, PLC/HMI/SCADA standards, network configuration, installation, inspection, testing, and commissioning. Lead FAT, IFAT, site acceptance testing, and Levels 3 through 5 commissioning to verify sequences, alarms, interlocks, redundancy, recovery, failover, availability, and resilience requirements. Verify compliance with applicable electrical-safety, cybersecurity, commissioning, and high-availability requirements, including NFPA 70E, ISA/IEC 62443, Uptime Institute Tier, and ANSI/TIA-942 criteria where contractually required. Lead audits, management reviews, root-cause analysis, containment, corrective and preventive actions, and verification of effectiveness for quality and commissioning issues. Define and analyze quality KPIs, including first-pass yield, nonconformance trends, rework, defect density, closure aging, and recurrence rates. Manage document and configuration control for design packages, test records, redlines, as-built documents, network diagrams, hardware, software, firmware, PLC logic, SCADA graphics, and approved changes. Serve as the primary quality contact for clients and coordinate requirements, audits, nonconformances, corrective actions, and escalations. Work with procurement, and panel fabrication teams to ensure qalify through monitoring suppliers, third party panel shops, component vendors, and subcontractors using risk-based criteria, performance scorecards, audits, and corrective-action follow-up. Train engineering, fabrication, field, and commissioning teams on quality, testing, document control, configuration management, and mission-critical reliability practices. Be an ambassador who embodies our Core Values, prioritizing the success of E Tech Group, our clients, and the professional development of our associates. You Have: Bachelor’s degree in engineering, engineering technology, industrial technology, quality management, or a related technical discipline. Five or more years of quality management or quality engineering experience in control system integration, mission-critical facilities, data centers, industrial automation, or a comparable regulated environment. Working knowledge of BMS, EPMS, PLC/SCADA architectures, industrial and IT networking, system development lifecycle controls, design reviews, commissioning workflows, and integrated systems testing. Experience applying owner and colocation-provider requirements, availability and resilience frameworks, and redundancy architectures such as N, N+1, 2N, or 2N+1. Demonstrated ability to collaborate across engineering, project management, fabrication, construction, commissioning, supplier, and client teams. Relevant credentials—such as PE, CxA, ASHRAE BCxP, ASQ CQE, CQA, CMQ/OE, or Lean Six Sigma certification—are preferred. Benefits & Perks: 401k + match + prompt enrollment.  E Tech Group employees are 100% vested upon entry. Prompt enrollment into Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits. Generous paid time off that includes paid vacation, paid holidays, paid family leave and sick time off. Learning and growth are key parts of the E Tech culture. We provide you with training and continuing education from day one, so you can advance your career. As an E Tech associate, you can unlock your greatest potential through challenges and opportunities. E Tech Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, military status, genetic information, gender identity, sexual orientation, citizenship status, or any other basis prohibited by law. E Tech Group will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities and for religious beliefs. E Tech Group is an Affirmative Action Employer of individuals with disabilities and protected veterans. #LI-CC1