Quality Assurance Officer

Meriton has designed, developed and built more than 78,000 award winning apartments and some of the tallest residential towers across the east coast of Australia. Meriton offers sales, leasing and property management services, as well as the luxury hotel accommodation brand Meriton Suites with 23 locations nationwide.

The role is for a full-time **Quality Assurance Officer** to join Meriton’s construction division in QLD. This is a great opportunity to progress your construction career, reporting to the **National Site Quality Assurance Manager** you will be responsible for assisting site-teams in managing their quality assurance obligations. You will be results driven, ensure project teams are following quality and completion processes as per Meriton’s Quality Management Systems in order to promote a culture of continual improvement.

**Your responsibilities in the role will include**:

- Undertake site QA audits across Meriton’s portfolio of projects and prepare reports summarising quality issues, observations, non-conformances along with recommendation of corrective actions.
- Work and support site-team members to close-out QA audit reports.
- Review, monitor and provide feedback on a project’s quality to various levels of management.
- Document quality concerns and performance measurements for management review.
- Contribute to the continual development of Quality Management Plans, systems and procedures such as ITP’s.
- Promote awareness across project teams and on-board training in the QMP and relevant systems
- Develop and maintain Quality Control functions within online repositories such as Autodesk and/or ProcoreTM
- Provide reports, including the compilation of Quality Committee minutes and quality tracking data across sites.

**You will show capabilities to**:

- Learn Meriton’s Quality Management System of procedures, processes, and site QA expectations.
- Undertaking independent inspections of a contractor’s quality control processes, documentation and works.
- Undertake site QA audits to identify any observations, non-conformance issues and or defects.
- Ensuring quality related milestones and close-outs are met within the specified time frame.
- Managing quality functions of both in-house and 3rd party stakeholders (such as contractors, consultants, etc).
- Co-ordinate as-built site quality testing to be undertaken by independent providers.
- Monitor and inspect construction activities, advising management on quality issues. Such items may include non-compliance with standards, regulation, or poor performance.
- Update the Quality Management Plan, systems, and procedures on as required.
- Communicate quality standards to the site team and other project stakeholders.
- Providing recommendations to resolve any issues, defects or poor performance concerns.
- Ensure project teams are compliant with local, state and federal legislative requirements.
- Ensuring the quality of design documentation is consistent across projects and consultants.

***To be successful in this role, the following skills & experience is required**:

- 5 years of Highrise Residential Building Supervision role. Experience as QA officer will be an advantage.
- High level understanding of NCC/BCA and Class 2 construction related Australian Standards.
- Be motivated, willing to learn and confident in communicating with people, both verbally and written.
- Collaborative team player with a positive attitude and the ability to self-manage priorities, time and work loads.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Proficient computer skills, with software such as Procore, Aconex, Microsoft word, excel or similar.
- Tertiary Qualifications in Construction Management, Engineering or Civil Engineering. (University or TAFE is acceptable).

**This is a full-time, permanent position.**
- Recruitment agencies: please note this role is not available for release to agency. Meriton will award no representation rights for unsolicited CV's sent to any member of our staff without the express written consent from the HR Team._