Office Quality Leader

CannonDesign has an exciting opportunity for an experienced Quality Leader for our New York City office. Look at the description below. If you think your skills and experience, make you a good match for this position, we’d love to hear from you. We’re looking for creative, curious, empathetic people to join our Living-Centered Design movement.    ABOUT OUR FIRM CannonDesign is an integrated design solutions firm focused on helping people continuously flourish. Whether designing for innovations in health, new scientific discoveries, equity in education or the next big idea in business, we use our Living-Centered Design approach to help organizations realize widespread change. Our ability to design transformational places, plans and strategies is why Fast Company named us a World Changing Company and one of the most innovative design firms in the world.    ABOUT THE ROLE The successful candidate will perform in the role of Quality Leader for the office, performing in a technical leadership role and be part of a multi-disciplinary leadership team to provide Quality oversight on projects. Executes strategic initiatives and manages teams to achieve objectives for Core or Venture offices.    WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Manages and monitors integrated quality review processes within the office, or within responsible offices, for all projects across all disciplines.
• Meets regularly with the Business Practice Leader (BPL) and provides information on project status and potential risk.
• Attend Office Practice Integration meetings. 
• Works with project leadership in office(s) to schedule and coordinate staffing for quality reviews for all disciplines. Also meets regularly with office senior Project Architects and engineering Discipline Leaders to discuss quality reviews and ongoing challenges. 
• Participates in the development of Project Risk Assessment and project Quality Plans. Drives updates as required.
• Attends, participates, and engages in Quality Leader meetings held with the Quality Leadership group.
• Participates in ongoing planning with fellow Quality Leaders and the Quality Leader group to develop and improve quality resources and initiatives. 
• Engage members of the Quality Leaders Group as needed.
• Acts as a proactive resource to project teams in their decision-making process and provides support in the development of technically sound and innovative design solutions, focused on the projects at greatest risk.
• Leads development of the office quality plan(s) that define a customized, effective quality strategy for the office.
• Participates in the interview process for new technical staff within the office and provides feedback on candidates.
• May act as Prime Signing Licensing Professional.
• Contributes to integrated Quality/CA and specification development and review processes within the firm.
• Monitors overall office metrics, including Deltek Practice Metrics and CA metrics to ensure project success.  Implements firm CA policies for the office project teams.
• Meets with project team members on a regular basis to monitor work in progress and ensure that the firm’s process standards and procedures are being implemented.
• Strategically engage in project phase quality reviews while engaging and managing other project reviewers.
• Strategize to engage senior Project Architects proactive involvement in other projects to ensure that all projects have senior guidance and proactive mentoring.
• Establishes strategies that drive the capture and reuse of institutional knowledge within the firm and share with the Quality Leadership team. 
• Writes technical articles relating to technical quality subjects for internal and/or external publication within area of expertise.
• Evaluate and guide introduction of new building technologies, methods, and materials.
• Leads and initiates ongoing mentoring and training to support a culture of continuous quality improvement.
• Meets established utilization target.
• May perform other duties as required.

  ABOUT YOUR QUALIFICATIONS

• Current Architectural Registration in the US OR Current Professional Engineer License in the US or Canada required.
• Minimum 12 years of related professional experience in Architecture or Engineering.
• Demonstrated focus on quality. 
• LEED accreditation preferred.
• Must have the ability to be client facing with strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong business acumen, technical knowledge, coordination skills and the ability to build a rapport with the project team and client is essential.
• Familiarity with Revit, SketchUp, Bluebeam, Microsoft Office, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign, and Procore. 

  The salary range for this position to be filled in the New York City office is $108,5