Project Quality Leader

CannonDesign has an exciting opportunity for an experienced Project Quality Leader.  This position may be filled remotely with preference given to candidates that can work in one of our US office locations. 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

You will perform the role of Project Quality Leader for a very large, significant multi-office project for the firm and be part of a multi-disciplinary leadership team to provide quality oversight on the project.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Manage and monitor the integrated quality review processes for the project for all disciplines.
• Meet regularly with the multiple office Business Practice Leaders (BPL), Office Quality Leaders and provide critical information on project status and potential risk.
• Develop and implement with the team technical leadership a strategy for continuous proactive Quality engagement.
• Work with the project leadership to schedule and coordinate staffing for quality reviews for all disciplines. Manage all those supporting the project’s Quality Process.
• Engage with the development of Project Risk Assessment and all its phase updates. Support and help manage the project risk mitigation strategies.
• Guide and assist team in the development of the Project Quality Plan and its updates to effectively manage the project's Quality including phase milestone quality reviews and project pinups / technical charettes.
• Review and guide the development of the planning of each phase drawing document deliverable through the Cartooning process.
• Guide the team to implement the firm technical document standards and CA policies. Meet regularly with the project’s Senior Project Architect(s) and Engineering Discipline Leaders to discuss quality reviews and ongoing challenges seeking to resolve issues early.
• Monitor overall project metrics, including Deltek Practice Metrics and CA metrics, to ensure project success.
• Act as a proactive resource to the project team in their decision-making processes and provides support in the development of technically sound and innovative design solutions. Engage members of the Quality Leadership Group as needed.
• Meet 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. May act as in-house peer reviewer within the Quality Process for other client teams.
• Participate in Business Development activity and collaborate with Marketing and Office Leadership as necessary.
• Establishes strategies that drive the capture and reuse of institutional knowledge within the firm focused on very large project implementation and share with the Firm Quality Leadership Group.
• Writes technical articles relating to the technical quality subjects described above for internal and/or external publication.
• Guide and mentor project staff to support a culture of continuous quality improvement.
• Meets established utilization target.
• Engage with Client leadership in regards to quality processes and efforts.
• May perform other duties as needed.

ABOUT YOUR QUALIFICATIONS

• Current Architectural or Engineering licensure in the US require OR
• Current Professional Engineer License  in the US or Canada required.
• A minimum of 20 years of related professional experience in Architecture or Engineering.  Experience includes 10 years in increasingly responsible roles in construction documentation on institutional and commercial projects and at least 3 years in a responsible role in construction administration on large institutional or commercial projects.
• Experience on large Healthcare projects a plus.
• LEED accreditation preferred.
• Demonstrated focus on quality.
• Exceptional technical design skills.
• Must have the ability to be client facing with strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong business acumen.
• Exceptional communication, client leader