Construction Materials Testing Laboratory Manager
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Job Location:
Atlanta, GA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
01-11-2025
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
At EXP were driven to provide innovative solutions for the worlds built and natural environments. As a team of engineers architects designers scientists creators and a community of professionals we bring diverse and talented people together to solve the worlds most complex challenges. Here you join a team that leverages differences harnesses their entrepreneurial spirit in an employee-owned company that believes diversity is what gives us strength seeks sustainable results and shares ambitions for each other our clients and the communities we are part of and serve. To be a part of EXP means to have your own experience while staying connected to a global network of professionals who believe we are a part of something bigger. Together we are EXP.
Are you ready to design your future
Be our next CMT Laboratory Manager!
Your work environment at EXP
In this role you will lead lab operations for soils aggregates asphalt and concrete testing aligned with GDOT standards AASHTO R18/ISO 17025 accreditation. This role will manage staff oversee test-reporting workflows ensure compliance with Testing Requirements Calibration/Certification Reporting Materials Verification and coordinate across field operations project engineers and other quality teams.
What a day at EXP has in store for you
- Oversee all laboratory operations: sample receipt/logging testing scheduling results review reporting.
- Supervise mentor and train field and laboratory staff; manage staffing levels/routine assignments.
- Ensure all testing meets GDOT AASHTO ASTM standards and applicable project specifications.
- Maintain/oversee calibration certification equipment maintenance and documentation in accordance with AASHTO R18 and GDOT requirements.
- Implement and maintain laboratory Quality Management System (QMS) consistent with AASHTO R18 / ISO 17025.
- Oversee test-report review approval and submittals via ATSER and ensure accuracy completeness and timely delivery.
- Interface with project engineers and GDOT representatives for audits non-conformance resolution and quality metrics.
- Generate monthly/quarterly lab performance turnaround time staffing and reports for management.
- Drive continuous improvement in lab operations (workflow optimization cost controls turnaround time improvement technology/investment upgrades).
What your experience looks like
- Experience in construction materials lab and field testing
- Minimum 10 years of construction materials testing experience including at least 3 years in laboratory management or supervisory role.
- Demonstrated experience with ATSER and GDOT reporting systems.
- Strong knowledge of GDOT materials testing standards AASHTO ASTM and specification compliance.
- Hold current material testing certification with GDOT.
- Excellent leadership communication interpersonal and organizational skills.
- Valid drivers license; ability to travel locally to project sites/labs.
- Prior experience on large highway construction projects.
- Hands-on experience with AASHTO R18/ISO 17025 accreditation proficiency testing programs (AMRL/CCRL) calibration programs and corrective action systems.
- Demonstrated ability to lead multidiscipline teams drive process improvement and manage multiple contract-based testing operations simultaneously.
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Required Experience:
Manager
Key Skills
- Lean Manufacturing
- Inventory Control
- Microsoft Access
- Purchasing
- Lean
- Supply Chain Experience
- Production Planning
- ERP Systems
- Leadership Experience
- Materials Management
- Manufacturing
- MRP
About Company
Our story With a mission to understand, innovate, partner and deliver, EXP provides engineering, architecture, design and consulting services to the world’s built and natural environments. Our heritage dates back to 1906, when the earliest of EXP’s predecessor companies started its en ... View more
