Quality Manager - Construction

Position Overview

The Quality Control Manager is responsible for developing, implementing, and managing all quality control systems and processes that adheres to Kiewit Corporate, PCI, and CalTrans standards. While supervising a team of quality control inspectors and technicians this person will ensure a consistent and blemish free quality product that meets established standards, customer specification and production goals.

District Overview

KIE-CON is a subsidiary of Kiewit, one of the largest engineering and construction organizations in North America. We provide clients with state-of-the-art operations to ensure the highest quality precast concrete projects.

Location

This position will be based onsite at in Antioch, CA. 

Responsibilities

• Prepare, train, and enforce Standard Operations Procedures for all Quality Control activities.
• Coordinate quality control activities with Plant Manager, Engineers, and Supervisors to ensure production activities maximize product reliability and reduce rework costs
• Responsible for the accurate filing and certification of all documents required under statutory compliance and client/customer contractual agreements.
• Investigate and establish a root cause analysis for NCR’s and develop the appropriate corrective actions.
• Demonstrate experience in leadership, problem-solving, creativity, strategic thinking, fostering cooperation and teamwork.
• Notify Plant Manager of any discrepancies production personnel may have.
• Participate in all plant inspections inclusive of management, client and statutory compliance agencies.
• Inspection, observation and documentation of all operations to ensure specified procedures are followed.
• Responsible for preparing, qualifying, and submitting all mix designs used, including self-performing and/or coordinating with outside laboratories to perform all required testing. Also for implementing Trial Batches as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Construction Management preferred.
• DOT, ACI, PCI Level 1 & 2 Certification preferred.
• Customer Focus: Builds customer confidence, is committed to increasing customer satisfaction, sets achievable customer expectations, assumes responsibility for solving customer problems, ensures commitments to customers are met, solicits opinions and ideas from customers, responds to internal customers.
• Quality: Is attentive to detail and accuracy, is committed to excellence, looks for improvements continuously, monitors quality levels, finds root cause of quality problems, owns/acts on quality problems.
• Leadership: Leads through change and adversity, makes the tough call when needed, builds consensus when appropriate, motivates and encourages others.
• Decision Making/Judgment: Recognizes problems and responds, systematically gathers information, sorts through complex issues, seeks input from others, addresses root cause of issues, makes timely decisions, can make difficult decisions, uses consensus when possible, communicates decisions to others.