
Traveling Quality Manager - Mission Critical
Cincinnati, OHFull-time$140–215K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
Shimmick seeks a Quality Manager for a large-scale mission-critical project in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. The role leads quality activities, collaborates with project leadership and field teams, and helps ensure work meets project requirements and company standards. It is a traveling position and includes oversight of quality management systems, coordination of a group or department, and responsibility for results.
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Overview
Shimmick is seeking a highly talented Quality Manager to play a key role in delivering a large-scale mission-critical project in Point Pleasant, WV. This position offers the opportunity to lead quality activities, collaborate with project leadership and field teams, and help ensure work meets project requirements and Shimmick’s standards.
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.
Backed by over 100 years of expertise and driven by innovation and an entrepreneurial spirit, Shimmick is one of the most dynamic infrastructure builders in the industry. With market leadership in water resources, sustainable transportation, and complex electrical construction, we’re well-positioned to lead during a time of rapid change. As project delivery models, regulatory frameworks, supply chains, and technology continue to evolve, our ability to stay flexible and agile in our construction approach is essential to our success.
Responsibilities
The responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to the following:
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Oversees the management of the monitoring and evaluation process to ensure that Shimmick's quality management systems are being followed and evidence is recorded and maintained.Provides guidance to employees within the latitude of established policies.
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Recommends changes to policies and establishes procedures that affect immediate organization.
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Works on issues of diverse scope where analysis of situation or data requires evaluation of a variety of factors, including understanding of current business trends.
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Acts as advisor to subordinates to meet schedules and/or resolve technical problems.
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May have budget responsibilities.
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Manages the coordination of activities of a group or department with responsibility for results.
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In some instances, may be responsible for functional area and may not have direct reports.
Qualifications
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Construction Management, or related field + 8 years of relevant experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education
Preferred Qualifications:
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Experience in construction work sequencing, productivity, preparation and maintenance of detailed construction schedules.
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Change management experience
Additional Information:
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This is a traveling position based in Point Pleasant, West Virginia.
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Qualified applicants who are offered a position must pass a pre-employment substance abuse test.
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This position does not include sponsorship for United States work authorization.
The salary range for this position is $140,000–$215,000 per year, including a 27% uplift in base salary during the initial travel assignment in West Virginia. Additional incentives include a $3,500 per month living allowance , if eligible, and a 10% project completion bonus .
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 insurance, and an Employee Assistance Program. Additional voluntary benefit offerings include pet insurance, hospital indemnity, critical illness insurance, legal and identity theft protection.
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.
AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
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.
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Job Locations US-WV-Point Pleasant | US-OH-Columbus | US-OH-Cincinnati | US-PA-PIttsburgh | US-WV-Charleston | US-WV-Parkersburg | US-OH-Cleveland
ID 2026-3158
Category Quality
Type Full Time
How this job compares
Set against the 942 open Quality Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 7, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$140–215K/yr
- US median$121–179K/yr508 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $178K, is 22% above the US median midpoint ($146K) — in the middle half of Quality Manager salary ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 53 open Quality Manager jobs in Ohio and 942 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Ohio
- Meta5 open
- Parker Hannifin Corporation3 open
- Shimmick (this employer)3 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience; Quality Manager postings that state a minimum ask for 7 years at the median (797 postings).
- Education
- 335 of the 942 open Quality Manager jobs (36%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 7, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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