Quality Manager

Position Title: QC Manager Department: Quality Control

FLSA: Exempt Date: October 2022

Position Summary:

Implements and manages quality control systems designed to ensure continuous production of advanced composite materials and applications (consistent with established standards, customer specifications and production goals). The position supervises a team of QC Technicians.

Essential Functions:

• Directs QC lab functions at assigned locations
  • Understands aggregate and aggregate properties.
  • Follows and revises QC plans; reads and understands technical specifications.
  • Provides proper amount of QC personnel; develops lab group budget
  • Maintains QC lab equipment
• Develops and approves mix designs to maximize quality and minimize cost.
  • Prepares mix formula for bid submissions; maintains all material reports.
  • Makes decisions on mix adjustments based on Milestone and INDOT QC results.
  • Understands, utilizes, and teaches the Bailey method.
  • Interprets customer requirements.
• Develops and implements best practices
  • Conducts internal process audits
  • Develops and maintains current knowledge of advances in quality control field
• Communicates with internal/external customers.
  • Works with estimating department and plant managers to determine aggregate sources.
  • Translates technical information to lay people at weekly scheduling meetings.
  • Facilitates collaboration among multiple workgroups (plant, lab, laydown, and field crews.)
  • Establishes effective relationships with aggregate supplier.
  • Meets INDOT deadlines.
• Ensures training needs are met.
  • Conducts OJT with lab technicians and apprentices.
  • Presents materials to various groups/levels of company.
• Promotes and maintains safe work environment.
  • Exhibits safe work behaviors; ensures all QC employees do the same.
  • Wears all prescribed PPE.
  • Evaluates, controls and eliminates hazards from lab areas

Reporting Relationships:

Supervision Received: Works under the general direction of the Division QC manager

Supervision Given : Directly supervises QC and lab technicians

Competencies

• Accountability
• Communication
• Decision Making/Decision Quality
• Ethics/Integrity
• Instills Trust
• Develops Others
• Drives Results
• Resourcefulness

Work Environment The work environment described here is representative of those that experienced by an employee performing the essential functions of this job.

• Continuous exposure to aggregates, gravel, water, asphalt, concrete
• Indoor lab conditions that include mechanical equipment, noise, vibration, fumes and airborne particles
• Outdoor conditions that include inclement weather, precipitation, heat, humidity, dust, asphalt and/or concrete, aggregate/gravel pits, moving or stopped traffic at job sites

Physical Demands The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

• Lifts, pushes, pulls, pours or carries heavy objects, buckets of material
• Walks and stands for long periods of time
• Bends, stoops, squats, reaches to move, mix and test materials
• Uses abdominal and lower back muscles to provide support over time without fatigue;
• Uses good manual dexterity (hand, hand with arm, two hands) and multi-limb coordination, with the ability to quickly move arms and legs.
• Possess excellent stamina to work between 8-12 hours per day
• Drives distances between labs, plants and job sites

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work This is a full-time position, normally 40 hours per week. Days and hours of work are Monday through Friday, during normal business hours, but shift and weekend work may be required.

Travel Travel throughout the state to job sites and satellite offices is required; primarily day travel, but some overnight may be necessary.

Required Education and Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in quality control, or related field
• 5-7 years previous experience in a supervisory quality control position in the asphalt industry

Preferred Education and Experience

• INDOT Quality Control Certification (must obtain if not currently held)
• Asphalt QC Certification (must obtain if not currently held)

Additional Eligibility Qualifications

• Must pass a pre-employment drug screen
• Must adhere to drug free workplace requirements, including random testing requirements
• If required to drive a company vehicle, must have or be able to obtain valid, state driver's license and meet company driver requirements

Work Authorization/Security Clearance (if applicable) Must be authorized to work in the United States, as verified through E-Verify. Some job sites may require additional criminal background testing.

Other Duties This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

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