Arcosa Lightweight is searching for a Quality Engineer in Norman, OK. In this role, you will support a positive safety culture staff within a 24/7 aggregate environment regulated by MSHA safety standards.

Arcosa Lightweight is a leading producer and distributor in the U.S. of lightweight aggregates, including expanded shale and clay, and other products.

What You’ll Do:
• This is a hands-on, highly involved contributor role. Effective collaboration with engineering, contracts, operations, and program management is critical to the role.
• Provide leadership to the organization to help drive a proactive approach leading to improvements in design, testing, manufacturing, selecting suppliers, and support for customers.
• Partner with Manufacturing Operations to solve problems while maintaining manufacturing efficiencies, meeting competitive business deadlines, and increasing customer satisfaction.
• Strengthen quality systems and ensure Corporate and Divisional processes are implemented and adequately followed.
• Developing and deploying work instructions/procedures and associated process controls.
• Establish and implement metrics (process capability, control charts, measurement quality) for monitoring system effectiveness and to enable managers to make sound product quality decisions
• Drive continuous improvements in all areas, focusing on key performance indicators
• Assist plants with the deployment of corporate quality policies, and auditing practices, and ensure adherence to the company's Quality and Regulatory strategies in accordance with the established strategic plan.
• Must become proficient at various methods of problem-solving and process improvement (8D, 5-Why, Kaizen, Six Sigma, etc) to champion problem solving and root cause analysis activities with suppliers and customers to eliminate recurrence of non‐conformances
• Maintain the evaluation and/or qualification of new suppliers and materials.
• Operate analytical instruments to support the plants.
• Understand aggregate testing and design lightweight concrete.

What You’ll Need:
• Energetic and strong work ethic
• Develop in leading work teams and project management
• Degree in Civil Engineering or equivalent field
• Lean and Six Sigma experience
• Strong communication skills
• Ability to develop strong relationships with customers and plant-level teams
• Ability to facilitate collaboration and communication with all operational teams as well as support functions worldwide
• Strong presentation skills - both presentation development (Power Point) and presentation delivery

Skills and Abilities:
• Ability to work with limited supervision. No instructions are needed on routine work and general instructions given on new lines of work or special assignments;
• Strong computer skills with working knowledge of Excel and Microsoft Outlook;
• Excellent observational, analytical, and problem-solving;
• Excellent listening and interpersonal skills;
• Ability to bring creative solutions;
• Ability to stay disciplined and focused on high-priority tasks;
• Strong written and verbal communication as well as presentation skills;
• Able to be productive and effective working independently or as part of a team;
• Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment;
• Have a passionate, energetic, can-do attitude;
• Ability to maintain a positive, professional attitude.

Engineering