Job Details

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING

The QC Manager is a key position in our Lockeford, CA branch. The position plans, coordinates, and directs full quality control services of precast concrete structures for all manufactured products including large complex and high risk projects.This is a managerial professional position and we’re looking for a professional quality control leader eager to lead a quality control team ensuring sound processes and procedures for the best precast concrete structures manufactured in the industry.

Reporting to the Regional General Manager, you’ll primarily work with a team of engineers, production teams, and quality control teams onsite and engage with NPCA professionals and customers to ensure our products are manufactured per specifications and of top quality.

A highlight of your day-to-day will include:

• Oversees the Quality Control (QC) Department and ensures that employees are following established standards and mirroring the National Precast Concrete Association (NPCA) QC Manual. Interviews, hires, trains, plans, assigns, and directs work; motivates, coaches, evaluates, rewards and disciplines employees. Interfaces with Human Resources and the General Manager regarding employee performance related issues and addresses each situation appropriately. Adheres to the Cardinal Rule of Conduct and holds others accountable to the policy.
• Develops, implements and maintains continuous improvements that support manufacturing with the highest quality in mind and meet the customers' needs. Updates and makes appropriate changes to the Quality Control Manual for improvement purposes based on updates from NPCA standards or direction from Plant Management. Makes recommendations for better quality of product.
• Verifies that identification tags are created for daily pre-pour inspections, that the inspections are documented and performed in accordance with inspection procedures, and that the completion of the inspections are recorded on the identification tags.
• Verifies that inspections for rebar cages have been performed for proper placement based on specifications and production drawings and that block outs, inserts, knockouts, pulling irons, ground rod holes and any other addition required after set-up are installed prior to concrete pours.
•  Initiates and reviews evaluation and disposition reports, product form inspection reports, pre-pour /post-pour inspection reports and scrap reports, and works with Plant Management to affirm that products are being manufactured in accordance with drawings and specifications and processes are followed to achieve high quality products.
• Verifies concrete is sampled and tested for its slump, air content, temperature, and unit weight daily, and that test results are recorded on appropriate paper forms. Verifies that post-pour inspections are performed and findings are recorded on appropriate paper inspection forms.
• Maintains a safe and clean work environment, returns all tools after use to proper storage location, and performs routine housekeeping (i.e.: cleaning, organizing). Performs all work in accordance with established safety procedures. Identifies unsafe working conditions and takes immediate action to correct the hazards.
• Makes appropriate notification of any non-complying issues that are discovered during inspections and works to devise a plan to correct such issues. Works closely with management to ensure that concrete mix designs are properly prepared with supporting documents, and that they are in compliance with accepted standards and/or job specifications with appropriate tolerances for temperature, slump, slump flow, unit weight and entrained air content. Interacts with production foremen, supervisors, and managers to have deficiencies in craftsmanship corrected before producing additional products.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

You’re enthusiastic and motivated in a fast-paced environment. The ideal candidate will have a bachelor's degree in Concrete Industry Management (CIM) or a related field. You have experience working in a quality control precast or construction work environment leading a small to medium size department. Your willingness to participate and engage in a team environment and hold the following certifications (ACI Concrete Field Testing Technician – Grade I, and NPCA PQS School Level I and II), and highly desired but not required a certification from the Precast Concrete Institute (PCI). You are proficient in database administration and computer programs related to manufacturing, familiar with ACI, ASTM and NPCA manuals and procedures. You have strong verbal and written communication skills and have the ability to work with high autonomy in a rapidly changing and evolving environment. You’re safety conscious not just for yourself, but for your team.

We’re open to individuals who aren’t just looking for their next job, they’re looking to build a career. You want an opportunity to showcase your skill set with a solid company who will invest in you. In our culture – everyone matters.

SALARY RANGE: $70,000 to $112,000 Annually

This position always is eligible for an annual discretionary bonus.

ALL ABOUT JENSEN PRECAST

Much like you, our founder, Don Jensen was looking for a way to support his family, so he started his Company in 1968. Since founded, we’ve been supporting communities across Nevada, California, Arizona, Washington, and Hawaii.

Jensen Precast likely has an impact on your daily life. We build culverts to take water away from your neighborhoods, underground utility boxes to hold cables, and manholes to allow workers access to the sewers deep below the roads we drive on. And that’s just a small sample of what we do at Jensen on a daily basis.

When you work at one of Jensen’s many locations, you will enjoy the close relationships and camaraderie of a small company while being part of a larger, well-established, growing company.

We are committed to ensuring employment practices that promote equal opportunities. Please let us know if you require any reasonable accommodations during your interview process.