Quality Control Manager - Sarasota - Ceres Environmental Services

Description

Salary Range $110,000.00 - $140,000.00 Salary

Travel Percentage Road Warrior

Category Corporate

Description

Job Title: Quality Control Manager (QCM)

Location: Project Dependent - United States

Reports to: Operations Manager

Compensation Range: $110,000 - $140,000 annually (depending on location, experience, skills, and qualifications)

Benefits: Comprehensive package including medical, dental, vision, 401(k) with company match, paid time off, and travel opportunities

About Ceres Environmental Operations

Ceres Environmental Operations (CEO) is a leader in crisis management, rapid response, and disaster recovery, committed to rebuilding stronger, safer communities. We specialize in emergency response, environmental services, planning, and consulting, including debris removal, blue roofs, logistics, debris management, demolition, recycling, forest management, and coastal and marine restoration. As a licensed general contractor, we offer unparalleled expertise to restore stability where it's needed most.

Driven by Purpose, Powered by People

At CEO, we believe you're more than just an employee; you're part of a team with a purpose and a meaningful mission. Every team member plays a vital role in restoring hope, helping communities recover and rebuild.

We value initiative, respect diversity, and give our people the freedom to lead. We offer competitive pay, travel opportunities, and a culture built on resilience and teamwork. If you show up with compassion, share the commitment, react with urgency, and deliver solutions, you'll fit right in. We don't just respond to challenges; we rise to them.

What We Are Looking For

The Quality Control Manager (QCM) plays a critical leadership role within our debris management operations, ensuring all work meets contract requirements and technical performance standards. This role oversees all field-based QC activities across Private Property Debris Removal (PPDR), Right of Way (ROW), and waterway debris removal (WWDR).

The QCM leads a team of Area Managers, Sector Managers, and Site QC Managers, ensuring rigorous quality governance across all operational sites.

Success in the first 12 months includes implementing a robust Quality Control Program, ensuring high-quality performance at every site, maintaining compliance with contract and regulatory standards, and driving continuous improvement through effective oversight, documentation, and training.

What You Will Do

Quality Program Management

• Develop, maintain, and enforce the Quality Control Program Management Plan (QCPgMP) and all task-order-specific QC Plans.

• Lead the QC program with authority to issue stop-work directives when work deviates from requirements.

• Oversee the QC organizational structure, including Area Managers, Sector Managers, and Site QC Managers.

Field Quality Assurance

• Coordinate with Client QA teams to ensure alignment of oversight responsibilities.

• Ensure daily quality inspections at loading sites, debris reduction and staging areas, disposal facilities, PPDR properties, ROW corridors, and waterways.

• Validate proper separation, handling, loading, hauling, and disposal of debris across all scopes.

• Verify compliance with definable features of work (DFOWs) and ensure integration with safety and environmental requirements.

• Identify deficiencies, document findings, and oversee timely corrective actions.

Documentation & Reporting

• Prepare and certify Daily QC Reports, ensuring accuracy and timely submission.

• Maintain complete QC documentation, including inspection records, deficiency logs, test results, and corrective actions.

• Ensure quality-related data is accurately captured in electronic systems such as ADMS.

Subcontractor Compliance

• Monitor subcontractor performance for adherence to quality standards.

• Evaluate work quality across debris scopes and oversee corrective actions.

• Verify subcontractor personnel and equipment meet qualification requirements.

Training & Oversight

• Provide QC training to inspection and documentation personnel.

• Ensure QC staff maintain required qualifications and understand scope-specific expectations.

• Analyze quality trends and recommend process and operational improvements.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Quality Management, Environmental Science, or related field (or equivalent experience).

• Minimum five years of experience supporting debris operations, construction QA/QC, or related fieldwork.

• Demonstrated experience managing quality programs for disaster response, emergency work, large-scale demolition, or environmental projects.

• Working knowledge of debris eligibility, documentation standards, and electronic load-tracking systems such as ADMS.

• Ability to evaluate and articulate past performance across PPDR, ROW, and waterway debris removal scopes.

• Strong leadership, organizational, and communication skills.

• Ability to deploy and work extended field assignments in dynamic environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting projects for federal, state, or local agencies, or large municipal/utility clients.

• Prior leadership of field QC teams on debris or environmental response operations.

• Experience supporting audits, client inspections, or third-party quality reviews.

What to Expect

As a Quality Control Manager, you will work in a fast-paced, field-driven environment supporting large-scale disaster response and debris management missions. You can expect frequent travel and extended deployments to disaster-impacted regions. Work hours may fluctuate based on operational tempo and may include long days, weekends, and rapidly changing priorities.

You will serve as the primary authority on all quality-related matters, working closely with field teams, subcontractors, and client representatives. Your day-to-day activities will include site inspections, documentation review, staff oversight, problem-solving, and ensuring compliance with DFOWs, environmental requirements, and contract standards.

This role requires strong leadership, adaptability, and the ability to thrive in challenging outdoor conditions while maintaining a strong commitment to safety and quality.

Physical Requirements and Environment

Ceres provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities and to applicants with sincerely held religious beliefs, as required by law.

Essential requirements may include:

• Ability to lift and move up to 50 pounds with or without reasonable accommodation.

• Ability to work in adverse weather , disaster-affected environments, and field conditions.

• Willingness to wear PPE, including hard hats, protective eyewear, steel-toed boots, and other safety gear.

• Ability to safely navigate uneven terrain, debris sites, and elevated or confined spaces.

• Commitment to following all safety standards and protocols.

Why Join CEO?

At CEO, you won't just have a job - you'll have a mission. Your work directly impacts the speed and strength of community recovery after disasters.

We offer:

• A collaborative, mission-driven culture

• Opportunities for professional growth and advancement

• The chance to make a lasting difference for communities across the U.S.

Ceres Environmental Operations is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.

Work Authorization

Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States. Employment eligibility verification is required at hiring. Ceres does not sponsor employment-based visas unless otherwise stated.

E-Verify: We comply with Federal law by verifying employment eligibility.