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We’re reimagining the minerals supply chain by combining deep industry expertise with advanced software, automation, and data-driven decision-making.\nThe Role\nAs a Construction & Commissioning Quality Engineer, you will lead site quality across all of Mariana Minerals’ industrial process facilities, from construction and installation through testing, commissioning, handover, and project closeout. You’ll make sure quality requirements are built into field execution, verified at every hold point, and documented so each plant is turned over complete, compliant, and ready to run.\nThis is a company-wide role covering every Mariana Minerals project, not a single site. You’ll be the primary quality interface between site teams, Construction Management, Field Engineering, Design Engineering, Process Engineering, Supply Chain, contractors, vendors, and Operations, and you’ll set consistent quality standards across all of our builds. Your work will be vital to building plants that start up safely, reliably, and right the first time.\nWhat You’ll Do\nSite Quality Leadership & Planning:\nLead site quality activities across construction, installation, testing, commissioning, handover, and closeout on every Mariana Minerals project.\n\nDevelop and execute site-specific Quality Plans, Inspection and Test Plans (ITPs), inspection checklists, and quality schedules.\n\nEnsure contractual, regulatory, local statutory, environmental, and Mariana Minerals quality requirements are understood and verified in the field.\n\nSupport kick-off meetings, handovers to site and commissioning teams, project coordination meetings, and final handover reviews.\n\nInspections & Commissioning Quality:\nExecute C&C ITPs and verify that inspections, tests, witness points, hold points, and acceptance criteria are completed per project requirements.\n\nCoordinate internal and third-party inspection resources for mechanical, electrical, dimensional, welding, coating, NDE, calibration, and functional testing.\n\nPlan and run witness inspections, site audits, and surveillance activities, including readiness checks, required equipment, and calibration status.\n\nEnsure nonconforming work is not built upon, concealed, or handed over until it is dispositioned and corrected.\n\nNCRs, Corrective Action & Continuous Improvement:\nInitiate, investigate, and close NCRs, deviations, punch-list items, and corrective actions with clear objective evidence.\n\nLead root cause analysis and corrective/preventive action with site teams, engineering, contractors, and suppliers.\n\nMonitor quality risks, NCR trends, and overdue actions; escalate issues affecting schedule, safety, environmental compliance, or cost.\n\nCapture lessons learned across all sites and standardize quality processes company-wide to reduce rework on future builds.\n\nTurnover Documentation & Records:\nManage site quality records, including inspection reports, test records, commissioning records, and turnover packages, so they are complete, traceable, and contract compliant.\n\nCompile quality data books, dossiers, and closeout packages, and track open actions and approvals through closure.\n\nCoordinate with Document Control to keep records available for review, acceptance, and archive.\n\nContractor & Supplier Quality Oversight:\nHold contractors, vendors, and site suppliers to Mariana Minerals quality requirements, site procedures, and specifications.\n\nMonitor contractor and vendor quality performance and drive resolution of issues affecting construction, commissioning, or turnover.\n\nPartner with Supply Chain when supplier documentation, NCRs, or shipment release records affect site acceptance.\n\nSystems & Automation:\nCollaborate with software engineering to digitize ITPs, inspection records, and NCR tracking, and support ongoing automation of quality workflows.\n\nHealth, Safety & Environment:\nPromote a safe work culture and build safety and environmental requirements into inspection and acceptance criteria.\n\nEnsure site quality activities align with HSE plans and local regulatory requirements.\n\nWhat You’ll Bring\nBachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Quality Management, or a related technical field; or equivalent experience.\n\nExperience in construction, commissioning, field, or project quality on industrial, mining, processing, or power generation projects.\n\nHands-on experience with ITPs, quality plans, witness and hold points, NCR management, root cause analysis, and corrective/preventive action.\n\nAbility to interpret specifications, contracts, drawings, procedures, and acceptance criteria, including applicable codes and standards.\n\nExperience with mechanical, electrical, dimensional, welding, coating, NDE, calibration, or commissioning inspection preferred.\n\nAuditing experience (supplier or site audits) preferred.\n\nProficiency with Microsoft Office, document management systems, and digital quality or tracking tools.\n\nExcellent communication, judgment, and decision-making abilities, with the ability to influence without direct authority across multiple teams and sites.\n\nHighly organized and detail-oriented, able to manage multiple sites, inspections, and open actions at once.\n\nWillingness to travel frequently to project, supplier, and manufacturing sites.\n\nExperience with EPC/EPCM delivery models highly desirable.\n\nOur culture is built on four principles:\nEveryone Gets Home Safe. We never put speed or cost ahead of people.\nExtreme Ownership. We take full responsibility for outcomes, relentlessly driving toward solutions.\nEngineer Out Requirements, then Automate. We simplify, optimize, and then automate for scale.\nShare Your Legos. 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