National Quality Leader

Job Description

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. Provides enterprise leadership for quality across the company to ensure consistent execution, predictable outcomes, and long-term operational excellence. Establishes and evolves the company-wide vision, governance, and systems, embedding quality expectations into planning, execution and learning across all regions and business units. Partners with executive and functional leadership to integrate quality as a core component of how work is delivered. Informs and partners with technology leadership to support the quality, vision, and process and ensure effective systems and tools are in place.

Key Responsibilities

• Establishes, leads, and continuously evolves DPR's enterprise-wide quality vision, ensuring alignment with company goals and construction best practices
• Embeds quality expectations into daily planning, execution, verification, and continuous learning processes across all regions and business units.
• Develops and governs company-wide quality systems, processes, tools and performance metrics that support consistent execution
• Partners with operations, field leadership, and functional teams to embed quality practices across all phases of project delivery, ensuring adoption of established processes on projects and continuously refining Best Builder Framework practices.
• Provides leadership direction to regional quality directors and senior leaders to ensure consistency and scalability
• Engages directly with project teams, providing real-time coaching and demonstrating how leaders should observe work, assess risk, and reinforce quality behaviors.
• Reviews enterprise quality performance data to identify trends, address systemic risks, and drive continuous improvement initiatives, and establishes new performance measures as needed based on enterprise results.
• Represents the organization internally and externally on matters related to quality, industry engagement and best practices

Travel 50 -70% to jobsites based on project need and timing

Education and Experience

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, leading planning and scheduling practices for large, complex projects at scale required.
• 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.

Certifications and Licenses:

• Quality certification preferred

Work Environment

Inside - inside environmental conditions or standard office environment

Constantly, 67% - 100%

Outside - outside environmental conditions/no protection from the weather

Frequently, 34% - 66%

Anticipated starting pay range:

$220,000.00- $295,000.00

Nothing is more important than your health and wellness. DPR offers a variety of medical, dental, vision and wellness benefits to keep you healthy. Read more about eligibility and available benefits programs

for skilled craft and labor or experienced professionals and recent graduates.

DPR Construction is a forward-thinking, self-performing general contractor specializing in technically complex and sustainable projects for the advanced technology, life sciences, healthcare, higher education and commercial markets. Founded in 1990, DPR is a great story of entrepreneurial success as a private, employee-owned company that has grown into a multi-billion-dollar family of companies with offices around the world.

Working at DPR, you'll have the chance to try new things, explore unique paths and shape your future. Here, we build opportunity together-by harnessing our talents, enabling curiosity and pursuing our collective ambition to make the best ideas happen. We are proud to be recognized as a great place to work by our talented teammates and leading news organizations like U.S. News and World Report, Forbes, Fast Company and Newsweek.

Explore our open opportunities at www.dpr.com/careers.