Higgins
Quality Assurance
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Description
Higgins is looking for a motivated Quality Assurance Technician to join our Chip Seal team in Christchurch.
This is a hands-on role where you'll work closely with chip sealing crews, Foremen, and Supervisors, to ensure our chip sealing projects are delivered to specification and meet the highest quality standards. You'll be responsible for carrying out onsite testing, monitoring quality, completing documentation, and supporting successful project delivery across Canterbury.
What You'll Be Doing
- Carrying out onsite quality assurance testing and inspections on paving projects
- Measuring and recording site dimensions, chainages, and sealing runs
- Monitoring temperatures, spread rates, density, and permeability to ensure compliance with specifications
- Marking out services, core locations, and areas of interest
- Collecting samples where required
- Completing QA documentation accurately and in a timely manner
- Coordinating with Supervisors, Foremen, and operations
- Maintaining testing equipment and ensuring it is transported and used safely
- Promoting a strong health, safety, and environmental culture on site
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What You'll Bring
- Experience in chip sealing, asphalt paving, civil construction, or a related industry
- A strong commitment to quality and attention to detail
- Knowledge of safe work practices within a construction environment
- Good communication and teamwork skills
- Basic computer literacy
- Full Class 1 Driver Licence
- Bitumen Safety Certificate, or willingness to obtain one
We Offer
- Competitive hourly rate
- Permanent, full-time opportunity
- Ongoing training and development
- Supportive and collaborative team culture
- Z fuel discounts, including a monthly free pie and coffee
- KiwiSaver employer contribution matched up to 4%
- Great benefits for you and your whānau
About Higgins
Higgins is a leading roading and civil infrastructure company in New Zealand. We are committed to delivering high-quality infrastructure while creating a safe, supportive and inclusive workplace for our people. Our teams play a vital role in building and maintaining the transport networks that keep New Zealand moving.
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Higgins is committed to a drug-free workplace. The successful applicant will be required to pass pre-employment drug and alcohol testing and a health check.
We are actively recruiting for this role and encourage early applications. Applications are reviewed regularly and the advertisement may be removed before the closing date.
Research shows that females and minority groups don’t always apply for roles unless they match 100% of the requirements. So, if this role is of interest but you feel you don’t quite fit, we encourage you to apply anyway. We are enriched by many nationalities, languages, religions, customs, and lifestyles. We are proud of our diversity and see it as one of the things that m
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