Quality Control Manager - Landscaping - Ft Hood, TX - TRDI

Salary: DOE
Schedule: Monday - Friday 7:00am to 4:00pm
Must be able to work a flexible schedule to include weekends, evenings and holidays as needed.
Benefits include: Medical, Vision, Dental, Paid Time Off, and Paid Holidays.

Must be able to obtain and maintain security clearance.

The Quality Control Manager (QCM) is the first-line inspection authority for ensuring contractual requirements are met and senior management is made aware of issues to the contrary. The QCM manages entire scope of work related to plotting and tagging trees, shrubs, berms via the TreePlotter SOP.

Must be an ISA Certified Arborist.

Daily Responsibilities:

• Develops, manages, and becomes the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the TreePlotter Software System.
• Manages entire scope of work related to plotting and tagging trees, shrubs, berms via the TreePlotter SOP.
• Completes and submits the Daily Quality Control Report (QCR) to the COR.

Essential Functions

• Accomplishes quality control objectives by recruiting, selecting, orienting, training; communicating job expectations; monitoring, appraising, and reviewing job contributions.
• Achieves quality control operational objectives for both their Contract Site and the Corporate QC Department by contributing information and analysis to strategic plans and reviews; preparing and completing action plans; implementing production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards; identifying and resolving problems; completing audits; determining system improvements; implementing change.
• Develops, manages, and becomes the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the TreePlotter Software System.
• Manages entire scope of work related to plotting and tagging trees, shrubs, berms via the TreePlotter SOP.
• Completes and submits the Daily Quality Control Report (QCR) to the COR.
• Executes reports, inspections and logs as required by the contract.
• Develops quality control plans by conducting hazard analyses; identifying critical control points and preventive measures; establishing critical limits, monitoring procedures, corrective actions, and verification procedures.
• Maintains and improves product quality by completing product, company, system, compliance, and surveillance audits, as well as investigating customer complaints.
• Updates job knowledge by studying trends in and developments in quality management; participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations.
• Other tasks as may be directed by the Project Manager, Quality Control Coordinator, and Director of Operations.
• Acts as Project Manager alternate or interim in the absence of the Project Manager.
• Maintains safety and health programs that comply with EM 385-1-1 and applicable OSHA, DOD, Armed Forces, federal, state, and local safety, environmental and health requirements.
• Creates, manages, and trains on site, area and project Safety.
• Responsible for providing a safe and positive teamwork environment in support of the organization’s objectives, mission, and core values to provide employment opportunities for individuals with significant disabilities.
• Conducts safety inspections of project areas, work tasks, and ergonomics; inputs findings into the QC system and submits findings/reports to Project Manager, Quality Control Coordinator and the Director of Operations.
• Presents findings, reports, and programs summary in formal meetings with client each as required.
• Maintain Operations Security (OPSEC) standard operations procedure.
• Ensures that all required end-of-month reports are accomplished and that all contract deliverables are submitted as required by the Performance Work Statement.
• Assists the Corporate QC Department as directed.

This position reports to the Quality Control Coordinator and is an independent authority of the Project Manager while working alongside the Project Manager and Supervisors.  This position communicates regularly with the Project Manager and Supervisors to inform them of deficiencies or the need to correct a discrepancy.

Education, Skills, and Experience

• Must be an ISA Certified Arborist
• High School education or GED
• 5 years relevant work in landscaping, and leadership experience in a multi-location environment, and or 5 additional years of related experience in lieu of a degree
• Strong ability to organize effectively, delegate responsibility, and solve problems quickly
• Experience leading high performing teams
• Ambitious and target focused with a drive to succeed

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, related field
• Texas Certified Landscape Professional
• Certified Arborist
• Irrigators License
• Herbicide Pesticide license
• Experience with Labor Unions and regulatory laws
• Experience in working with community agencies and/or individuals with disabilities

Physical Requirements

While performing the duties of this job, individuals may be asked to assist the team with grounds and landscape work and will be required to walk and stand for long periods of time working outdoors to verify project standards. This position will entail performance modeling and training of employees as needed. 

Work Environment

The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The physical demands of this position require prolonged standing, walking, use of hands and fingers, reaching with arms, climbing, and balancing.

• Ability to regularly lift up to 50 pounds
• The work environment of this position may require the employee to work in extreme temperatures: wet, hot, cold or humid conditions (indoor and outdoor); near moving mechanical parts; in high/precarious places; areas where fumes or airborne particles are present; with or around toxic or caustic chemicals; in areas where the risk of electrical shock is present; around explosives; areas where the risk of radiation is present; and work that exposes the employee to vibration
• The visual demands of this position require clear vision of less than 20 inches to greater than 20 feet; ability to identify and distinguish colors; peripheral vision and depth perception
• Exposure to noise levels ranging from very quiet to very loud

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c) Management