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Senior Staff Quality Control Engineer

Crusoe - Abilene, TX, United States - In-office - posted 2026-08-12

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Crusoe is a vertically integrated AI infrastructure company building mission-critical data center facilities powered by an energy-first approach. As Senior Staff Quality Control Engineer, you will serve as the senior technical authority for construction quality across Crusoe's data center infrastructure projects. You will define, standardize, and improve quality engineering practices across major construction scopes with deep focus on MEP (mechanical, electrical, plumbing) systems, commissioning readiness, inspection standards, defect prevention, and turnover integrity. This is a highly field-driven role at the intersection of construction, engineering, and commissioning where quality directly impacts uptime, performance, capital efficiency, and long-term reliability. Key responsibilities include: serving as senior QC leader across large-scale data center construction projects; defining and improving program-level quality engineering standards, inspection methods, and acceptance criteria; developing and governing Inspection Test Plans, checklists, and quality documentation standards across civil, structural, electrical, mechanical, controls, and commissioning scopes; ensuring critical MEP systems are installed per design intent and specifications; partnering with construction, design, commissioning, operations, GCs, subcontractors, and third-party inspectors; providing senior-level technical review of drawings, specifications, submittals, and construction execution plans; leading root cause analysis for defects and non-conformances; establishing defect taxonomies and quality metrics; driving pre-functional and functional readiness standards; providing technical sign-off recommendations for systems prior to commissioning and turnover; reviewing non-conformance reports, corrective action plans, punch lists, and turnover packages; identifying quality risks early; translating field lessons into scalable standards and playbooks; mentoring QC engineers and construction teams; and supporting audit readiness. Success means critical MEP systems are installed correctly and ready for first-pass commissioning, repeat defects and rework are reduced through stronger standards and early detection, construction and commissioning teams operate from a shared quality framework, quality metrics are trusted and visible, turnover documentation is complete and audit-ready, and lessons learned improve standards across projects and trade partners.

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