Quality Assurance Manager

The Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) is seeking a highly capable and experienced Quality Assurance & Compliance Manager to serve as a critical technical leader overseeing key compliance and quality programs essential to maintaining the integrity of our transportation infrastructure projects.

This is a unique opportunity to lead and refine the processes that ensure the highest standards for materials testing, technician training, and quality assurance across UDOT and our partner organizations.

Principal Responsibilities

The successful candidate will be the driving force behind the technical integrity and ethical execution of UDOT's compliance programs, including:

• Program Leadership: Oversee and manage critical compliance programs:
• AASHTO R 18 Compliance: Establishing and implementing a quality management system for construction materials testing laboratories.
• AASHTO R 25 Compliance: Leading the Transportation Technician Qualification Program (TTQP), including technician training and certification, in partnership with the Western Alliance for Quality Transportation Construction (WAQTC).
• Independent Assurance (IA): Managing all IA processes.
• Laboratory Qualification: Overseeing the qualification processes for Consultant and Contractor Laboratories.
• Process Refinement & Integrity: Maintain and continuously refine the governing processes and documents for materials technician qualification, laboratory qualification, and independent assurance to ensure efficacy, efficiency, ethics, and responsibility.
• Supervision: Directly supervise a team of technical professionals, including engineers, examiners, and equipment specialists.
• Technical Support & Communication: Provide expert technical support, clear communication, and professional interaction regarding AASHTO and WAQTC standards, test methods, and practices to internal teams and external partners (candidates, technicians, laboratory managers, and engineers).
• Stakeholder Coordination: Manage crucial internal and external coordination, cultivating strong collaborative relationships and ensuring appropriate transparency of all certification outcomes and options.
• Continuous Improvement: Support ongoing efforts to enhance candidate training and certification programs.

Minimum Qualifications

Candidates must have all of the following in order to qualify:

• A Bachelor's degree, or higher, in a related field OR equivalent experience AND
• At least six (6) years of related professional experience.

The Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate will be a proven technical leader who demonstrates:

• Ethical Leadership: A strong track record of leading with respect, integrity, and caring.
• Communication & Collaboration: Exceptional communication skills and the ability to cultivate strong collaborative relationships with internal teams and external partners (consultants, contractors, etc.).
• Technical Knowledge: Familiarity with UDOT construction materials testing and AASHTO testing standards.
• Regulatory Understanding: An understanding of the federal requirements for state quality assurance programs.

Supplemental Information

Additional information candidates should be aware of:

• Working Conditions - Risks found in the typical office setting, which is adequately lighted, heated and ventilated, e.g., safe use of office equipment, avoiding trips and falls, observing fire regulations, etc.
• Physical Requirements - Typically, the employee may sit comfortably to perform the work; however, there may be some walking; standing; bending; carrying light items; driving an automobile, etc. Special physical demands are not required to perform the work.
• Employee may be reassigned to a different location as deemed necessary by the Region Director/Group Leader.

Why Should You Join Our Team?

The work we do matters. If you want to make a positive difference doing meaningful work, this is the right place for you. Our mission statement is, "Enhance quality of life through transportation." We define quality of life through a framework of Good Health, Connected Communities, Better Mobility, and Strong Economy. We help the State of Utah and its traveling public to get to where they want, when they want, in the way they want - and we make sure they can do it safely.

You will become part of a team with an internal culture of Trust, Teamwork, and Flexibility. Our organization lives by the values of Respect, Integrity, and Caring. If these are your values too, you'll be a great fit.

Aside from working for a cause-driven, cutting edge agency that is leading all other transportation departments in the nation, you will receive great health and retirement benefits. Working for the State of Utah provides a positive work-life balance.

The Agency

UDOT is a strengths-based organization, which means its approach is based on identifying and developing individual and organizational strengths. Our philosophy is to address challenges by bringing our strengths to each situation and create the best solutions. Candidates are encouraged to be familiar with their strengths and consider how they may potentially be of benefit to the roles for which they are applying. UDOT uses the Clifton Strengths Assessment, but there are multiple strengths assessment tools available online, and no formal assessment is required.