Construction Materials Testing Laboratory Manager

Construction Materials Testing Laboratory Manager

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At EXP, we’re driven to provide innovative solutions for the world’s 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 world’s 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.

• 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).

• 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 driver’s 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 multi‑discipline teams, drive process improvement, and manage multiple contract‑based testing operations simultaneously.

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.

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 engineering infrastructure practice. Today, thousands of creative professionals across EXP work together to deliver extraordinary experiences year after year.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer who fully and actively supports equal access for all people regardless of Race, Color, Sex, Religion, Gender, Age, National Origin, Veteran Status, Disability, Genetic Information or Testing, Family and Medical Leave, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity or Expression.

EXP is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer who fully and actively supports equal access for all people regardless of Race, Color, Sex, Religion, Gender, Age, National Origin, Veteran Status, Disability, Genetic Information or Testing, Family and Medical Leave, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity or Expression.

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