Charlie Engel has over 35 years of experience in construction quality assurance, quality control and occupational health and safety. He has been with The Austin Company since 1998.
As Corporate Director of Quality Assurance and Safety, Charlie is responsible for the Company’s quality assurance and safety and health programs. During design, he performs independent constructability reviews of engineered drawings and specifications for completeness, constructability, and compliance with design standards. Charlie develops written QA and Safety manuals, plans, procedures and inspection checklists for engineering and construction projects. In addition, Charlie performs inspection, surveillance and audits on all projects and submits written reports to management.
Charlie holds current Quality Assurance Inspection Certification to ASME-NQA-1 (ANSI N45.2.6) in Civil, Structural, Mechanical, Electrical, Instrumentation & Controls, and Welding (AWS / SNT-TC-1A), and is also a certified Lead Quality Assurance Audit to ANSI N45.2.23/NQA-1.
Charlie has worked with DOE (Nuclear), NAVFAC, United States Corps of Engineers on multiple projects, and has completed their Construction Quality Management for Contractors training.
Charlie is a certified 29 CFR 1926 and 1910 Construction and General Industry Safety Instructor (OCI 500 & 501) and teaches OSHA 10- and 30-hour classes to Austin employees. He also is a certified instructor for the American Red Cross and teaches Blood Borne, First Aid, CPR and AED to Austin employees.