Full-Time Opportunity, Steel & Concrete Group, Eastern PA, NJ, MD, DE

KTA-Tator, Inc. (KTA) is a 100% employee-owned consulting engineering firm internationally recognized as a leading expert in corrosion protection. KTA is the largest provider of 3^rd party coating inspection services in the country, and a major player in steel and concrete fabrication inspection. KTA’s hallmark professional services include coatings failure investigations and laboratory analysis, among a broader array of integrated service offerings all aimed at protecting the world’s infrastructure.

KTA has an immediate opening for a reliable and competent PCI Certified Concrete Inspection Supervisor for full-time work throughout eastern Pennsylvania, NJ, MD, and DE. The incumbent will be responsible for supervision and oversight of inspection personnel assigned to prestressed and precast concrete plants and concrete grate and frame fabrication. Additional responsibilities include:

• Maintaining both handwritten and electronic records of inspection and test data using the Departments EQMS application;
• Ensuring consistent inspection is maintained through uniform specification and policy enforcement;
• Acting as a troubleshooter for Structural Materials Engineering staff by correcting routine problems;
• Attending prefabrication or other meetings;
• Performing plant audits.

This position is open to all candidates with the following qualifications:

• ACI Certified Concrete Field-Testing Technician – Grade I AND PCI Level II certification issued by the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute. Must have knowledge of the principles and methods applied in inspecting the fabrication of prestressed concrete bridge beams, precast concrete and concrete pipe and concrete grate and frame.
• 5 years of Precast and Prestressed Experience in Concrete Fabrication Shops – required
• High School Diploma or GED equivalent – required
• PennDOT Concrete Field Testing Technician – preferred
• Knowledge and use of the PennDOT EQMS system – preferred
• Prior experience in PennDOT and/or PA Turnpike Highway and Bridge Construction Inspection - preferred
• Ability to effectively direct and supervise an inspection force including the coordination of the inspection force to accommodate varying fabrication schedules.
• Act with integrity, always promoting ethical practices in all circumstances
• Detail-oriented, ensuring all paperwork is accurate and complete
• Customer oriented, developing and maintaining healthy relationships with clients and contractors, keeping all parties abreast of any progress
• Good oral and written communication and decision-making skills
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Excellent work ethic, dependable, and punctual
• Reliable transportation and valid Driver’s License
• Basic computer skills: Microsoft Word and Excel experience, ability to navigate the internet and email correspondence

Physical Requirements:

• Hearing, speaking, close, color, distance, depth vision, and ability to adjust focus;
• Ability to travel, when necessary, and ability to work outside (including inclement weather);
• Walking, climbing, bending, kneeling, crawling, crouching, standing for extended periods of time, and working in confined spaces and on uneven terrain.

Come see what all the buzz is about! We offer competitive pay, great benefits, including two fantastic retirement plans (ESOP & 401K), and will likely have many great opportunities down the line as we continue to grow!

Visit www.kta.jobs to apply!

Drug testing and criminal background and motor vehicle check will be conducted. Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S.

KTA is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  While candidates will be considered, KTA especially encourages female, minorities, veterans, and candidates with disabilities to apply to this and all job postings. KTA is a Standing Firm Company.  AA/EEO

 

Regional Sales and Marketing Purpose: Generate revenue by educating owners and designers, qualifying potential projects, recommending new products, promoting design assist, estimating/budgets, and closing sales.

Regional Sales and Marketing Job Duties: 

• Service area would include Texas and southern Oklahoma.
• Work closely with estimating staff.
• Work closely with plant operations staff and attend weekly meetings at plant.
• Initiate the sales process by scheduling appointments; making presentations; and understanding design requirements.
• Instill confidence in the marketplace, standing behind its value proposition of quality, service, technology, design assist and financial capabilities.
• Close sales by working closely with the estimating staff during the estimating and bidding process with potential accounts; explain our building enclosure systems capabilities; and overcome objections and prepare contracts.
• Expand sales in the design community by introducing new products, developing new applications and promoting design assist.
• Network by participating in educational opportunities and getting involved in construction-oriented and PCI regional organizations.
• 5 years minimum precast or façade product experience required.
• Degree in related field recommended, but not required.

Qualified candidates may contact Vanessa L. Ramirez, Corporate Human Resources Coordinator, vramirez@gateprecast.com or 407-572-9031.

Reports to Quality Systems Manager
FLSA Non-Exempt

JOB SUMMARY
The Quality Systems Inspector is responsible for implementing all quality control systems and processes to ensure continuous product manufacturing that meets MidState Precast and customer standards. Working with production to ensure a consistent and blemish free quality product that meets established standards, customer specification and production goals.

JOB SCOPE & ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
Primary Accountabilities

• Prepare, train and enforce Standard Operations Procedures for all Quality Control activities.
• Coordinate quality control activities with Plant Manager, Engineers, and Supervisors to ensure production activities maximize product reliability and reduce rework costs
• Investigate and establish a root cause analysis for customer issues and develop the appropriate corrective actions.
• Supervise, train, and guide workers engaged in the inspection and testing activities to ensure high productivity and high technical integrity.
• Demonstrate experience in problem-solving, creativity, strategic thinking, fostering cooperation and teamwork.
• Notify Quality Systems Manager of any discrepancies production personnel may have.
• Inspection, observation and documentation of all operations to ensure specified procedures are followed.
• Work with Quality Systems Manager for preparing, qualifying, and submitting all mix designs used, including self-performing and/or coordinating with outside laboratories to perform all required testing.

ROLE COMPETENCIES 
Customer Focus: Builds customer confidence, is committed to increasing customer satisfaction, sets achievable customer expectations, assumes responsibility for solving customer problems, ensures commitments to customers are met, solicits opinions and ideas from customers, responds to internal customers.
Quality: Is attentive to detail and accuracy, is committed to excellence, looks for improvements continuously, monitors quality levels, finds root cause of quality problems, owns/acts on quality problems.
Leadership: Leads through change and adversity, makes the tough call when needed, builds consensus when appropriate, motivates and encourages others.
Decision Making/Judgment: Recognizes problems and responds, systematically gathers information, sorts through complex issues, seeks input from others, addresses root cause of issues, makes timely decisions, can make difficult decisions, uses consensus when possible, communicates decisions to others.
 
Education/Training: ACI, PCI Level 1 & 2 Certification at a minimum. PCI level 3 preferred.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:
Ability to work collaboratively in a diverse work environment with all levels of employees.
Strong communication (written/verbal), negotiation and interpersonal skills. Ability to solve problems and get to positive resolution.

Work Experience: 3+ years of precast plant operations or related experience.

Reports to Engineering Manager
FLSA Exempt

JOB SUMMARY
The Quality Systems Manager is responsible for developing, implementing and managing all quality control systems and processes to ensure continuous product manufacturing that meets MidState Precast and customer standards. While supervising a team of quality control inspectors and technicians this person will ensure a consistent and blemish free quality product that meets established standards, customer specification and production goals.

JOB SCOPE & ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
Primary Accountabilities

• Prepare, train and enforce Standard Operations Procedures for all Quality Control activities.
• Coordinate quality control activities with Plant Manager, Engineers, and Supervisors to ensure production activities maximize product reliability and reduce rework costs
• Responsible for the accurate filing and certification of all documents required under statutory compliance and client/customer contractual agreements.
• Investigate and establish a root cause analysis for customer issues and develop the appropriate corrective actions.
• Supervise, train, and guide workers engaged in the inspection and testing activities to ensure high productivity and high technical integrity.
• Demonstrate experience in leadership, problem-solving, creativity, strategic thinking, fostering cooperation and teamwork.
• Notify Plant Manager of any discrepancies production personnel may have.
• Participate in all plant inspections inclusive of management, client and statutory compliance agencies.
• Inspection, observation and documentation of all operations to ensure specified procedures are followed.
• Responsible for preparing, qualifying, and submitting all mix designs used, including self-performing and/or coordinating with outside laboratories to perform all required testing.

ROLE COMPETENCIES 

• Customer Focus: Builds customer confidence, is committed to increasing customer satisfaction, sets achievable customer
  expectations, assumes responsibility for solving customer problems, ensures commitments to customers are met, solicits opinions and ideas from customers, responds to internal customers.
• Quality: Is attentive to detail and accuracy, is committed to excellence, looks for improvements continuously, monitors quality levels, finds root cause of quality problems, owns/acts on quality problems.
• Leadership: Leads through change and adversity, makes the tough call when needed, builds consensus when appropriate, motivates and encourages others.
• Decision Making/Judgment: Recognizes problems and responds, systematically gathers information, sorts through complex issues, seeks input from others, addresses root cause of issues, makes timely decisions, can make difficult decisions, uses consensus when possible, communicates decisions to others.

QUALIFICATIONS
Education/Training:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management preferred.
• DOT, ACI, PCI Level 1 & 2 Certification at a minimum. PCI level 3 preferred.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Ability to work collaboratively in a diverse work environment with all levels of employees.
• Strong communication (written/verbal), negotiation and interpersonal skills. Ability to solve problems and get to positive resolution. Business understanding of cash-flow and financial impacts of projects.

Work Experience:

• 3+ years of plant operations and project engineering or related experience.

Tindall is currently searching for Senior Drafting Coordinators who are highly dependable with strong work ethics. If you are eager to take on new and challenging projects and are capable of working both individually and on a team, we want to hear from you!

Our Senior Drafters are responsible for managing the engineering and drafting portions of projects when outside subs are being utilized.

Job Duties & Responsibilities include:

• Answer/Coordinate all plant and field questions
• Coordinate with Design Team (EOR, Architect, and GC) on any questions that arise from engineering sub
• Coordinate project submittal dates, production dates, and erection schedules
• Review Material List for engineering sub and issue to internal team; Review shop cards and issue to internal team
• Ensure that engineering subs are on schedule including all submittals and shop cards
• Review all submittals for adherence to contract drawings/Scope of Work/Tindall Standards

Education, Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:

• Associate Degree (A.A) in Drafting is required with at least 10 years of related experience and/or training in the precast industry.
• Must have in-depth knowledge of AutoCAD, Microsoft Word and Excel.
• Must possess strong interpersonal, oral and verbal communication skills.
• Exceptional attention to detail & accuracy is required.
• Must be capable of reading and interpreting construction drawings.

Physical Demands:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee must:
• Regularly sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, and talk or hear.
• Frequently stand and walk.
• Occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and rarely lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

Working Environment:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is exposed to an office setting.
• Occasional exposure to dirt, noise, fumes, heat/cold while in the plant.
• Occasional travel is required for onsite visits; usually less than a full day of travel.  

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions

Tindall is a zero-tolerance drug-free workplace. Applicants must be able to pass pre-employment and regular post-employment, random drug screens.

Tindall Corporation, its subsidiaries and affiliates, is an EEO Employer AA: M/F/Veteran/Disability. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other protected class.

Click https://www.nationjob.com/job/TDCP136 to apply online.

Tindall is currently hiring for a Design Supervisor. Our Design Supervisor is responsible for managing the design department and ensuring that all projects are completed on time and meet specifications by implementing, developing, sustaining and improving high quality design/drafting standards.

Job Duties & Responsibilities:

• Supervise the work, including work assignments, performance evaluations and salary evaluations of the departments Designers.
• Mentor incoming Designers, familiarizing them with Tindall Standards, operating procedures, etc. and discuss the Quality System, with emphasis on Price of Nonconformance.
• Attend and contribute information to project kick-off meetings.
• Conduct cursory check of all erection drawings for general conformance with contract drawings and review with Project Engineer.
• Analyze projects and prepare a time management plan for completion dates.
• Make complete checks of representative shop cards on all projects.
• Utilize current shop card check lists to ensure conformance to standards.
• Enforce the use of departmental established checking tools.
• Collaborate with department personnel to develop/optimize checking techniques or any other accuracy enhancements.
• Collect and evaluate repair work orders attributed to engineering or plant errors.
• Work with Engineering Manager to assemble corrective action groups to address recurring rework items.
• Maintain departments master drafting schedule and work closely with Engineering Manager to prioritize projects and production lines.
• Collaborate with Production regarding forming constraints to drafting schedule.
• Communicate extensively with Production Planning to ensure the Engineering department satisfies three-day lead time requirement.
• Perform field observations as required as an engineering representative.
• Perform additional duties as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

This role may have no supervisory responsibilities but will be expected to be the mentor for all design personnel. The role may carry out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organizations policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities may include assisting the Division Engineering Manager in interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; addressing complaints and resolving problems.

Education and/or Experience:

Associate Degree (A.A) in Drafting is required with at least 5 years of related experience at minimum and/or training in the precast industry; or equivalent combination of education and experience. 1-2 years of leadership experience is required. 10 years’ experience in drafting in Precast is highly preferred.

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:

• must have in-depth knowledge of AutoCAD, 3-D Modeling, and technical writing.
• Ability to read, comprehend, and compose complex instructions, detailed correspondence, and memos.
• Ability to effectively communicate information in one-on-one and small group situations to internal customers and other interested parties in the organization.
• Must be functionally literate in the fundamentals of Geometry and Trigonometry.
• Must be proficient in the utilization of fractions, percentages, and ratios & proportions.
• Must have accuracy in computing areas and volumes.
• Ability to deal with problems arising from errors or missing information on drawings during the production and erection phases of a project.

Core Competencies:

Time Management	Decision Making
Project Management	Good Judgement
Detail-Oriented	Critical Thinking
Ethical Conduct	Problem Solving
Communication	Leadership

Physical Demands:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee must:

• Regularly sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, and talk or hear.
• Frequently stand and walk.
• Occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and rarely lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

Working Environment:

The job operates in a professional office environment with minimal noise levels.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions

Tindall is a zero-tolerance drug-free workplace. Applicants must be able to pass pre-employment and regular post-employment, random drug screens.

Tindall Corporation, its subsidiaries and affiliates, is an EEO Employer AA: M/F/Veteran/Disability. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other protected class.

Click https://www.nationjob.com/job/TDCP133 to apply online.

The Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI) is accepting applications from students enrolled in structural, architectural, or civil engineering programs for a full-time paid internship to assist PCI staff with important technical projects. This individual will work with the PCI Technical Services team to support the extensive technical workload and will gain a unique experience advancing the institute’s body of knowledge.

Expected responsibilities will include:

• Preparing engineering calculations for publications
• Assisting in review and response to technical inquiries
• Drafting figures and models for various publications
• Preparing presentations with educational content

Qualified applicants are expected to be through their third year or later of bachelor’s degree curriculum and will have completed at least one course in reinforced concrete design, with prior coursework in prestressed concrete a plus.  Students between bachelor’s and master’s degree programs will be considered but should be planning to continue with their education full time after their internship to be considered.

This position will support staff at PCI headquarters in Chicago, IL; however, highly qualified remote location candidates will be considered and will not need to move.

Interested students should submit their resumes, including transcripts, to internships@pci.org. Applicants with availability starting in January 2021 or after will be considered. Applicants interested in summer 2021 internships must submit by April 2. Any related inquiries can be sent to the same address. 

Do you drive by buildings and wonder, how’d they do that?  Do you look at a building and know how they did that?

Mid-States Concrete Industries is looking for an innovative, detail-oriented, highly motivated, and exceptionally positive Project Engineer (PE, SE, EIT) with precast concrete knowledge and experience.

The rock star Project Engineer is passionate and confident in their ability to work as a team to create a successful project – for multiple projects at a time.  The ideal candidate possesses top-notch leadership skills, awesome communication skills and the can-do attitude necessary to transform construction documents into the multi-family apartment building a newlywed couple calls their first home, while meeting deadlines.

We’re a team, so come with an excellent work ethic, integrity, and willingness to take initiative and speak up with your ideas.

A day in the life of a Project Engineer will include working with the team to start a project off right; asking the questions necessary to ensure the success of a project; sorting out all RFIs prior to beginning engineering; reviewing drawings, calcs, and piece tickets; generating computations; and working on three-to-five projects at a time.

A four-year degree in Civil Engineering or a related field is a must, as is precast knowledge.  The ideal candidate will be able to hit the ground running.

At Mid-States Concrete, we live The Mid-States Way every day and believe that being a little weird is a good thing, so a good sense of humor is a must.  Our vision is to change the world by being the safest and most innovative precast building company.  Are you the one to help us do that? Visit msprecast.com to learn more.

Project Engineer  

Job Summary:

This position has duties and responsibilities in the following areas: to prepare computations and be responsible for drawings for precast concrete components and structures while maintaining a primary focus on public safety, cost, and schedule.  To provide support and direction to project designers and project leaders in order to facilitate timely progress on assigned projects.  To work with and assist sales, production, quality control, project managers, field personnel, contractors, architects, and engineers.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Prepare structural computations for precast components, precast structures, and any associated connections.
• Specify design requirements for precast components, precast structures, and any associated connections.
• Submit RFIs as needed to complete the computations and needed to specify design requirements.
• Check submittal drawings prepared by project designer for conformance with the intent of contract documents and the specified design requirements.
• Check erection drawings prepared by project designer for release to production.
• Check production drawings for conformance with erection drawings and specified design requirements.
• Evaluate and resolve discrepancy reports.
• Communicate with Project Team as necessary for successful completion of assigned projects.
• Coordinate accurate estimated completion dates with Project Leaders and Project Managers.
• Work internally with production, purchasing & installation team members to aid and resolve project issues.
• Actively work with Senior Structural Engineer to create tools to increase productivity.
• Any other duties, as assigned.

Skills, Knowledge and Abilities Required:

• Ability to prepare structural precast computations.
• Understanding of building code requirements.
• AutoCAD drafting skills.
• Employee must be detail orientated.
• Excellent communication skills (verbal & written).
• Excellent understanding of construction processes (architectural drawings, details, and constructability).
• Possess great organizational skills.
• Be proficient with MS office products (Word, Excel, Outlook, Power Point).
• Be proficient with engineering software.
• Exhibit a strong willingness to learn.
• To obtain and maintain licensure as a Professional Engineer.

Educational Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering or related field.
• Have the ability to apply advanced mathematical concepts and operations to such tasks as structural analysis of building systems and components.

Still reading?  Send your resume to careers@msprecast.com.