QA​/QC Lead; Solar

QA/QC Lead – Solar

Role Type:
Full-Time

Reporting To: QA/QC Manager / Project Manager

Project Sites:
Westfield Solar (Raeford, NC)

CEC Energy Services is a self-perform electrical construction and industrial services company operating across energy, industrial, and critical infrastructure markets. We execute complex, capital-intensive work where safety, reliability, and execution discipline matter. Our projects support the systems people and industries rely on, including power generation and distribution, industrial facilities, digital infrastructure, and utility-scale solar and battery energy storage systems (BESS).

CEC operates in environments where margins are earned through planning, coordination, and disciplined execution, not heroics. We partner with customers who expect professionalism, transparency, and accountability, and we hold ourselves to the same standard.

CEC’s culture is built around STRIVE©:
Safety, Teamwork, Reliability, Integrity, Versatility, and Execution. These are not slogans. They define how we operate and how decisions get made.

• Safety comes first. We do not trade safety for schedule, margin, or convenience. Leaders are expected to plan work safely, enforce standards, and stop work when conditions are not right.
• Teamwork means respecting the people doing the work and collaborating across the field, project, and office. We succeed through coordinated effort, clear roles, and shared accountability, not heroics.
• Reliability is about doing what we say we will do. Commitments matter. Plans are realistic, promises are kept, and issues are surfaced early when conditions change.
• Integrity guides how we work with customers, partners, and each other. We defend our scope, honor our contracts, tell the truth, and address problems directly.
• Versatility means adapting to changing conditions without losing discipline. Our projects are complex and dynamic. We adjust plans thoughtfully and decisively as reality changes.
• Execution is how we win. We plan the work, work the plan, measure performance, and correct early. Results matter, and accountability follows responsibility.

The QA/QC Lead is responsible for leading the quality assurance and quality control function on utility-scale solar construction projects. This role owns the site quality program — from inspection and test plan (ITP) execution through NCR management and final turnover documentation — and serves as the primary quality authority on site. The QA/QC Lead partners with field supervision, project leadership, and customer representatives to ensure all installation activities meet specifications, applicable codes, and contract quality requirements.

This is a field-based leadership role requiring a seasoned quality professional with direct utility-scale solar experience and the judgment to strengthen a site quality function as the work front scales.

The QA/QC Lead is directly accountable for:

• Leading all quality inspection activities across the assigned solar project scope
• Developing, implementing, and maintaining the site Inspection and Test Plan (ITP)
• Managing NCR (Non-Conformance Report) lifecycle from identification through closeout
• Producing and organizing turnover documentation packages to meet contract requirements
• Serving as the site-level quality authority and primary customer interface for quality matters
• Coordinating with field supervision, subcontractors, and owner representatives on all quality hold points
• Ensuring the site quality function is structured, staffed appropriately, and operating ahead of the work front

• Develop and maintain the site ITP, quality procedures, and inspection checklists aligned to contract requirements
• Perform and direct field inspections of DC and AC scope including module installation, string wiring, combiner boxes, MV collection systems, and civil/civil-structural work activities
• Conduct open trench inspections for underground MV cable installation, conduit runs, and civil grading
• Manage all NCR documentation including root cause, corrective action, and formal closeout with customer
• Monitor quality hold…