Director of QA/QC

Subsidiary: Barrett Industries

Barrett Paving Materials Inc. is one of the companies that operates within Barrett Industries Corporation, the Colas USA subsidiary that operates primarily in Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York. Barrett Paving is a leader in heavy civil construction with a vertically integrated value chain which includes aggregate production, hot mix asphalt plants, asphalt paving services, and a wide range of road construction work. We engage in heavy civil and commercial construction projects in counties throughout Upstate NY, specializing in airport and highway work. The mission of Barrett Paving has been to strengthen and grow by empowering our people, fostering innovation, and utilizing new technology. To learn more about Barrett Paving visitwww.barrettpaving.com/.

Throughout Colas USA, we provide competitive pay, outstanding benefits, career advancement opportunities, professional education, and extensive training for every employee. We pride ourselves on upholding the highest standards of safety, environmental conservation, and ethical conduct as we strive to grow our infrastructure products and services through empowering and developing our people, fostering innovation, utilizing new technology, and maximizing vertical integration at all levels of the company’s value chain. To learn more about the Colas USA Family of Companies, please visitwww.colasusa.com.

Barrett Paving, and the rest of the Colas USA Family of Companies, is part of the Colas Group, the worldwide leader in transportation infrastructure construction and maintenance. For information on our international network visitwww.colas.com.

Job Summary

The Director of QA/QC position is responsible for the coordination, planning, strategy and supervision of the contract/project quality management system to ensure specific contracts/projects meet or exceed established quality control standards and customer specifications. This role will also have managerial oversight and review of the work flow process of company employees, subcontractors and vendors relating to QA/QC activities including verification of quality records, documentation, lab operations and goals, non-destructive testing and applicable codes and standards. This is your opportunity to lead an excellent team!

Main Responsibilities

Quality and Technical Mentorship:

• Directs and mentors the QA/QC department managers.

• Works closely with MWC department managers and ODOT to ensure QA/QC contract requirements.

• Ensures that QC managers provides definition, development of project product quality assurance strategy across the region.

• Develops and implements ongoing quality improvement processes with interdepartmental teams to improve financial goals.

• Set targets for managers to produce consistency and quality through the design and definition of QA metrics

• Conduct meetings with new and existing subcontractors, vendors and the project management team prior to the start of each new phase to discuss issues that affect quality.

• Lead and conduct preparatory, initial and follow-up meetings to establish an understanding of the standards desired for each definable feature and verify that checklists are being used and signed off prior to placement of project materials including aggregate, additives, concrete, asphalt, and Steel.

• Verify that documents are verified to confirm all materials received for the project are in conformance with each specific project’s established standards and are handled and stored appropriately and are acceptable for use on the project.

• Verify that the QC Managers’ schedule, document and maintain the results of all code and independent inspections and re-inspect to ensure all non-conformance issues are corrected.

• Handles statistical method reporting and testing in accordance with national ACI, ASTM, AASHTO standards.

• Conducts a regular review of existing QA/QC processes to improve standard methodologies, QA/QC efficiency, customer relationships and overall operational efficiencies.

Skills

• Excellent interpersonal ability

• Coach, mentor and give to project activities.

• Exhibit strong eye for business

• Highly developed interpersonal and planning skills, time management skills and written/oral and presentation communications skills.​

• High level of accuracy and attention to detail.

• Proficient in the use of standard QA/QC testing equipment and quality metrics.

Physical Requirements

The work characteristics described here are representative of those an employee may encounter while performing the job. Reasonable accommodations. Most work is done in a construction/production/Lab environment using their hands and fingers, standing, walking and reaching with arms and hands, manual dexterity. Collaborating with staff, management, employees at their worksites is important. Frequent travel is required, often up to several hours of driving per day to visit bid work sites, training, attend/conduct presentations meetings, and/or seminars. Will be regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts, vehicles and moderate to high noise levels and construction/production/QA/QC dust, chemicals and other similar contaminants. Exposure to variable weather conditions is likely during travel.

Colas Inc. and its subsidiaries are an Equal Opportunity Employer. For details on the specifics of this commitment, please click here to view the EEO document (https://www.colasusa.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/ColasUSA_EEOStatement.pdf) . If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to:

• to meet the requirements of the role in which you are applying

• complete any part of the application process

• access or use the online application process and need an alternative method for applying

  Please contact Colas Inc. at 973-290-9082 or send an email to ColasRecruiter@colasinc.com .