VP of Construction Quality

VP of Construction Quality Location

Dallas, TX

$225k-$275k base salary + bonus

This is an executive leadership role with approximately 30–40% travel to project, field, fabrication, and operating sites.

Workspire is partnering with an established, institutionally backed industrial services organization that supports complex construction and industrial projects across multiple disciplines. The organization is in a significant growth phase and is focused on building the systems, leadership structure, and operational consistency needed to scale effectively.

The VP of Construction Quality will lead the development and evolution of the organization’s quality function, with responsibility for creating a consistent approach to quality across a distributed operating environment. This leader will establish the standards, processes, accountability, and measurement needed to improve execution, reduce risk, and strengthen customer confidence.

This is a highly visible, hands-on executive role for a quality leader who can move between strategy and execution. The ideal candidate will enjoy building scalable systems, developing teams, partnering with operational leaders, and getting close enough to the work to understand issues and help solve them.

• Set the overall quality strategy and establish clear standards and priorities that support continued growth.
• Build and scale a company-wide quality framework that creates consistency across regions, projects, disciplines, and operating environments.
• Partner with senior operations, technical, safety, and engineering leaders to embed quality into day-to-day execution and business planning.
• Establish accountability, continuous-improvement practices, and performance expectations across the organization.
• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing quality organization, including regional quality leaders, inspectors, and technical specialists.
• Use quality performance data to connect operational quality to cost, risk, customer experience, and business results.
• Serve as a senior escalation point for significant customer quality concerns and help maintain trust through clear communication and timely resolution.

• Establish practical quality processes, documentation, inspection, testing, and verification standards across complex project environments.
• Support project teams through startup and execution by identifying quality requirements, risks, and opportunities for improvement.
• Oversee quality audits, field quality activities, fabrication quality programs, and other assurance initiatives.
• Ensure work aligns with applicable industry standards, project specifications, customer requirements, and regulatory expectations.
• Lead root‑cause analysis, corrective actions, lessons learned, and other efforts to address recurring quality issues.
• Develop meaningful quality metrics and reporting that provide leadership with visibility into trends, risks, rework, and performance.
• Engage directly with field and operational teams when complex quality or execution challenges arise, helping remove obstacles and drive practical solutions.

• 12+ years of progressive quality leadership experience in construction, industrial services, energy, manufacturing, or another complex project-based environment.
• Experience leading quality across multiple locations, disciplines, projects, or operating groups.
• Demonstrated success building, scaling, or significantly improving a Quality Management System.
• Experience in a high‑growth, private‑equity‑backed, or operationally complex environment is strongly preferred.
• Strong understanding of construction and industrial quality practices, including…