National Quality Leader

Overview

The National Quality Leader serves as DPR’s core construction champion, responsible for ensuring work is built correctly the first time and that every project delivers predictable, durable outcomes. The role provides enterprise leadership for quality across the company, ensuring consistent execution, predictable outcomes, and long-term operational excellence. The leader establishes and evolves the company-wide vision, governance, and systems, embedding quality expectations into planning, execution, and learning across all regions and business units.

The leader partners with executive and functional leadership to integrate quality as a core component of how work is delivered and informs and partners with technology leadership to support quality vision, process, and effective systems and tools.

• Establish, lead, and continuously evolve DPR’s enterprise-wide quality vision, ensuring alignment with company goals and construction best practices.
• Embed quality expectations into daily planning, execution, verification, and continuous learning processes across all regions and business units.
• Develop and govern company-wide quality systems, processes, tools, and performance metrics that support consistent execution.
• Partner with operations, field leadership, and functional teams to embed quality practices across all phases of project delivery, ensuring adoption of established processes and continuously refining Best Builder Framework practices.
• Provide leadership direction to regional quality directors and senior leaders to ensure consistency and scalability.
• Engage directly with project teams, providing real‑time coaching and demonstrating how leaders should observe work, assess risk, and reinforce quality behaviors.
• Review enterprise quality performance data to identify trends, address systemic risks, and drive continuous improvement initiatives, establishing new performance measures as needed.
• Represent the organization internally and externally on matters related to quality, industry engagement, and best practices.
• Travel 50–70% to jobsites based on project needs and timing.

Education Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, engineering, architecture, or related field, or equivalent experience preferred.

Work Experience

• 15+ years of experience across all project phases in construction, including operations, pursuits, and leading planning and scheduling practices for large, complex projects at scale.
• Demonstrated success building and scaling systems, processes, and performance metrics.
• Experience in design, early planning, and quality management preferred.
• Strong communication, facilitation, and coaching experience across diverse teams and stakeholder groups preferred.

• Quality certification preferred.

Indoor 67%–100% of time and outdoor 34%–66% of time, with exposure to environmental conditions typical of construction sites.

$ – $.

DPR offers medical, dental, vision, and wellness benefits to support employee health and wellness.