QC Manager

QC Manager

Build Your Career at Milestone Contractors! The QC Manager 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

Additional duties and responsibilities as assigned, including but not limited to continuously growing in alignment with the Company's core values, competencies, and skills.

Education Qualifications Preferred: Bachelor's Degree in quality control, or related field

Experience Qualifications: 5+ years previous experience in a supervisory quality control position in the asphalt industry

Licenses and Certifications: INDOT Quality Control Certification (must obtain if not currently held) Asphalt QC Certification (must obtain if not currently held)

Working Conditions/Physical Demands:

• 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
• 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
• Possesses excellent stamina to work between 8-12 hours per day
• Drives distances between labs, plants and job sites is required; primarily day travel but some overnight may be necessary
• Travel throughout the state to job sites and satellite offices is required

About Milestone Contractors: Milestone Contractors is a privately held, family-owned business headquartered in Indianapolis. Milestone Contractors is a fully integrated heavy construction company specializing in highway, bridge, asphalt and concrete paving and site development. Over its 30-year history, Milestone has built a reputation for prioritizing safety, quality, people and innovation. Milestone Contractors is a part of The Heritage Group's family of companies.