Quality Engineer

Position Title:

Quality Engineer

Location:

Aiken, SC, US

Date:
May 20, 2026

Operating Sector:
Nuclear

Aecon is a North American leader in infrastructure development. The Quality Engineer will support quality engineering activities to ensure compliant construction, fabrication, installation, inspection, and turnover of safety‑related and quality‑affecting structures, systems, components, and services.

• Support quality engineering oversight for construction and fabrication activities to verify compliance with approved procedures, inspection and test plans, design documents, and applicable regulatory and code requirements.
• Apply quality requirements from ANSI N45.2.6 / ASME NQA-1 and related standards across construction and supplier scopes.
• Develop, review, and maintain quality plans, inspection plans, work instructions, checklists, and turnover documentation packages.
• Coordinate with engineering, construction, procurement and project teams to ensure quality requirements are properly flowed down to subcontractors, fabricators and suppliers.
• Provide support for construction and fabrication special processes such as welding, brazing, nondestructive examination, heat treatment, coating and lining applications, bolting controls and other qualified processes.
• Verify implementation of qualified procedures, personnel certifications, material traceability, equipment calibration, hold points, witness points and required records for special process execution.
• Support fabrication quality activities including source surveillance, shop inspections, receipt inspection, manufacturing record review, nonconformance evaluation and turnover of objective evidence packages.
• Provide quality engineering support for structural concrete and rebar construction activities, including pre‑placement inspections, embed and anchor bolt verification, reinforcement installation, concrete placement, curing, testing, and records review.
• Ensure construction activities comply with applicable ACI requirements, including ACI 349, ACI 318, ASTM material and test standards, approved mix designs, placement procedures, and project acceptance criteria.
• Coordinate with field engineering, civil and structural teams, inspection personnel and testing laboratories to verify readiness for work, completion of required examinations and acceptability of as‑built conditions.
• Review quality documentation associated with rebar heat traceability, material certifications, concrete batch records, test reports, inspection reports and turnover packages.
• Support internal assessments and field verifications to evaluate compliance, identify gaps and improve execution effectiveness.
• Support nonconformance, deficiency and corrective action processes by performing technical evaluations, assisting with cause analysis, verifying corrective actions and ensuring issues are properly documented, trended and closed.
• Interface with customer auditors, regulators and project stakeholders during audits, surveillance, code activities and readiness reviews as assigned.
• Contribute to quality metrics, lessons learned and process improvements to strengthen construction readiness, supplier performance, records quality and overall project execution.

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Materials or related technical field plus relevant experience in nuclear, power, EPC, heavy industrial, or other highly regulated construction environments.
• Demonstrated experience in quality engineering, quality assurance or quality control supporting construction, fabrication, installation, inspection, or supplier quality activities.
• Working knowledge of ASME NQA-1, 10 CFR 50 Appendix B, 10 CFR 830, ASME Section VIII and application of these requirements to field construction, fabrication, documentation and turnover.
• Experience supporting construction and fabrication special processes such as welding, nondestructive examination, heat treatment, coatings and related qualification, inspection and records requirements.
• Experience supporting concrete and rebar construction quality activities, including inspection planning, material traceability, field…