Construction QA Manager

Hadrian is building autonomous factories to reindustrialize America. By combining AI, advanced software, robotics, and full-stack manufacturing, we help aerospace and defense companies build rockets, satellites, aircraft, ships, and other mission-critical systems up to 10x faster and at significantly lower cost.

Following our $1.37B Series D at a $7.87B valuation, Hadrian is rapidly expanding our manufacturing footprint, launching new capabilities across welding, casting, forging, electronics, additive manufacturing, and more, while scaling our Factory-as-a-Service platform to transform how critical products are built.

Backed by leading investors including JPMorgan Chase, Valor Equity Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund, 137 Ventures, Lux Capital, T. Rowe Price, and Morgan Stanley, we’re building the future of American manufacturing—and looking for exceptional people to help make it happen.

If you’re ready to take on the most challenging and rewarding work of your career while helping create American manufacturing jobs for generations to come, you’re exactly who we’re looking for.

The Construction Quality Assurance Manager will support the redevelopment and buildout of Hadrian’s advanced manufacturing facility in Cherokee, Alabama. This position will serve as the primary field representative for construction quality assurance and will be responsible for establishing, implementing, and maintaining the owner’s construction quality assurance program across the project.

The Construction Quality Assurance Manager will work directly with Hadrian’s project team to provide field-level quality oversight of construction activities and will coordinate closely with the General Contractor, subcontractors, design engineers, third-party testing and inspection agencies, commissioning personnel, and equipment teams.

This is an owner-side quality assurance role. The General Contractor and subcontractors remain responsible for controlling the quality of their work and delivering construction that complies with the Contract Documents. The Construction Quality Assurance Manager will independently verify that appropriate quality control processes are being implemented, construction complies with project requirements, required testing and inspections are performed, and identified deficiencies are properly resolved.

The successful candidate will be highly field-oriented and capable of identifying quality risks before they affect downstream construction, equipment installation, commissioning, manufacturing operations, cost, or schedule.

• Develop, implement, and maintain Hadrian’s project-specific Construction Quality Assurance Plan.
• Establish quality assurance processes, documentation requirements, inspection protocols, and acceptance criteria across construction scopes.
• Review the General Contractor’s project-specific Quality Control Plan and verify that appropriate QC processes are being implemented in the field.
• Establish clear responsibilities between Hadrian, the General Contractor, subcontractors, design engineers, and third-party testing and inspection agencies.
• Review and monitor Inspection and Test Plans (ITPs) for critical construction activities.
• Establish appropriate hold points, witness points, inspection requirements, and documentation requirements for critical work.
• Identify high-risk construction activities and establish appropriate quality oversight before work begins.
• Perform periodic audits of the GC’s quality program and identify gaps, trends, or systemic issues requiring corrective action.
• Promote a proactive quality program focused on preventing defects rather than identifying problems after…