TxDOT / HMAC Quality Control Technician Awards Program

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The Texas Department of Transportation and the Hot Mix Asphalt Center presents Quality Control/Quality Assurance Technicians an award for their efforts to achieve excellence in the performance of their assigned duties.

This is an annual program to award achievement in Hot Mix Materials Design and Testing by HMAC Certified Technicians. QC/QA technicians are an invaluable part of our industry. Good quality begins with the technician and good technicians need to be recognized. This program will honor those who strive to be better than the rest and to those who dedicate their career to helping the industry be the best it can be.

One technician will be chosen from each level of certification, (1A, 1B and Level 2). To be considered for selection, a candidate must be nominated by an industry partner. As an example: A TxDOT certified technician must be nominated by either a contractor or consultant partner, A contractor technician must be nominated by either a TxDOT or consultant partner. A consultant must be nominated by a contractor or TxDOT partner. This process will be referred to as cross nomination.

The nominators can be owners, supervisors, district engineers, area engineers and peer technicians. The program is designed where the nominator will take ownership of the nominating and evaluation process. Once someone decides to nominate a technician, that person will call HMAC and request the nomination form. HMAC will then send the nomination form and four evaluation forms to the person who is nominating a technician. The forms can be downloaded at http://www.txhmac.org/ .

IT IS UP TO the nominator to choose three additional people who knows and will fairly evaluate the nominee, in addition to the nominator. These can be anyone who has personal knowledge of the nominee.

These evaluations shall be completed independently and evaluators are prohibited from sharing ideas and thoughts about the nominee to the other evaluators. In the majority of cases, the nominator and evaluators will have personal knowledge and working experience with the nominee. Please rely on this personal knowledge. The nominee will be evaluated in an array of different subjects on a scale from 1 to 100 with 100 being the highest. The evaluation forms have descriptions and definitions of the different subjects.

This is not a Hot Mix Asphalt Center, TxAPA or TxDOT selection process. This is a program for the industry, by the industry. We want YOU to tell us who receives this award.

A committee comprised of TxDOT, HMAC, industry and consultant partners will then review these nominations, calculate the scores and name the winner in each category.

The winners will be recognized and awarded a plaque and a HMAC awards shirt during the awards ceremony at the annual Texas Asphalt Pavement Association meeting in September of each year. In addition, the winners will be acknowledged at the Partners in Quality Seminars held around the state during the year and will be featured on the Hot Mix Asphalt Center's website.

We are very excited about this program. With your cooperation and involvement, we expect a very successful HMAC Quality Control Technician Awards Program.