Quality Leader (Power Engineering)

Location: Fully remote for candidates authorized to work in the United States, or hybrid/local from Lakewood, Colorado. Travel typically ranges from 15–25% and may include periodic field engagement.

Salary: $140,000–$165,000 per year, based on the Denver, Colorado labor market.

Company

Mission Critical & Industrials is the consulting and engineering arm of hirify.global, delivering complex electrical infrastructure for data centers, oil and gas operations, and commercial and industrial facilities.

What you will do

• Assess how work flows across opportunity handoff, project setup, staffing, execution, financial management, invoicing, and closeout.
• Map processes and use data, interviews, observation, and root-cause analysis to identify bottlenecks, rework, cost leakage, and capacity constraints.
• Lead cross-functional improvement initiatives from assessment and solution design through implementation, adoption, and sustainment.
• Partner with Operations and Finance on resource planning, utilization, forecasting, margin management, billing, cash flow, and delivery performance.
• Establish operational metrics, dashboards, review cadences, playbooks, tools, and minimum operating standards.
• Advise leadership on operational effectiveness, scalability, execution risk, systems, and long-term operating planning.

Requirements

• Undergraduate degree in business, engineering, operations, finance, project management, construction management, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
• At least 10 years of progressively responsible experience in operations, project delivery, operational excellence, business transformation, or process improvement within a project-based professional-services environment.
• Strong understanding of project-based business mechanics, including backlog, staffing, utilization, forecasting, margin, billing, cash flow, and resource capacity.
• Ability to analyze complex operational problems, map processes, identify root causes, and implement measurable improvements.
• Strong communication, facilitation, executive presentation, and change-leadership skills.
• Proficiency with Excel and enterprise, project-management, financial, resource-planning, business-intelligence, or workflow-management systems. Must be authorized to work in the United States full time.

Nice to have

• Experience in power, energy, renewable energy, infrastructure, or engineering consulting.
• Lean, Six Sigma, PMP, or another relevant operational excellence, project management, or change management certification.
• Experience with operational integration, organizational scaling, post-acquisition alignment, or process standardization.
• Experience implementing ERP, project-accounting, resource-planning, business-intelligence, workflow-automation, or project-delivery technology.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote flexibility or a hybrid work environment depending on location and project needs.
• Employer-paid medical, dental, vision, basic life insurance, and long-term disability premiums.
• 401(k) with employer matching and immediate vesting, plus annual and discretionary bonus programs.
• Paid time off, parental leave, holidays, and tuition reimbursement.
• Employer-paid professional licensure, certifications, seminars, and conferences.
• Career development, training, coaching, team-building, and pet insurance benefits.