Quality Control Associate - Materials Engineering Lab

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The City of Santa Rosa is committed to building a workforce reflective of our community and establishing a lasting culture of equity and belonging within our organization. Our collective talents and expertise contribute to high-quality public services that support a vibrant, resilient, inclusive City for our community and visitors. We celebrate a diverse workforce and welcome all qualified candidates to apply.

In addition to offering a rewarding work environment, opportunity for career growth, and an excellent salary, the City of Santa Rosa provides a generous suite of benefits, including retirement through CalPERS, a competitive leave package with vacation and sick leave, your choice of health plan, and top of the line employer paid (free to you) vision and dental coverage. More information regarding benefits associated with this position can be found on our Miscellaneous Employee Benefits Page.

• A flexible work schedule (9/80) available with management approval
• 12 paid holidays annually, plus 1 to 3 'floating holidays' per year, depending on start date and years of service
• $500 annually for wellness
• The City is a Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF) Employer

This is a lead worker classification for the Civil Engineering Technician series. Quality Control Associates (QCA) operate with a high degree of independence and exercise independent judgement in the performance of their duties. QCAs provide specialized expertise in a defined area and have a higher level of lead, administrative, technical, and paraprofessional responsibility for that area of expertise. In collaboration with other engineering staff, QCAs update and improve the accuracy and efficiency of interrelated engineering systems, processes, and procedures.

Positions in this class establish work priorities for the specialized area to which they are assigned and assure that their assigned area stays current with industry standards and trends.

This recruitment is being conducted to fill a current opening in the Materials Engineering Laboratory. Quality Control Associate's in this division will be responsible for analyzing traffic count data and calculating traffic index for City streets; designing asphalt and concrete pavement structural sections and evaluating alternative sections; evaluating active soils and providing recommendations for mitigation; providing support to the development and maintenance of laboratory testing database;

possessing a certification in Radiation Safety and Use of Nuclear Gauges; functioning as Radiation Safety Officer; overseeing training of Laboratory staff in field and laboratory testing procedures, and certifying the staff as to their proficiency.

This recruitment will create an eligible list that may be used to fill future vacancies.

• The ability to work autonomously as well as collaboratively on a team
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills with the proven ability to build and maintain effective working relationships
• Demonstrated experience and ability to provide field observations and testing; as well as laboratory testing
• Sound judgement when providing guidance to internal and external stakeholders
• Experience creating training materials as well as conducting initial and ongoing trainings for field and laboratory staff
• The ability to understand, interpret, and implement State and federal legislation and regulations

Please complete a thoughtful, thorough Supplemental Questionnaire submission. As part of the selection process, your responses will be reviewed for required qualifications and may be scored using criteria specific to this position. Incomplete responses, minimal or generic responses, or responses such as "See Resume" can result in disqualification from the selection process.

The selection process will include a minimum qualifications assessment, an application and supplemental questionnaire review, followed by department selection interviews. An…