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. Key Responsibilities 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 on projects 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, and establish new performance measures as needed based on enterprise results. Represent 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 Bachelor’s degree in construction management, engineering, architecture, or a related field, or equivalent experience (preferred). 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). Work Environment Inside: 67%–100% inside environmental conditions or standard office environment. Outside: 34%–66% outside environmental conditions/no protection from the weather. Anticipated starting pay range: $220,000.00 – $295,000.00. DPR offers medical, dental, vision, and wellness benefits to support health and wellness. Equal Opportunity Employer DPR is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. All employment decisions at DPR are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical or mental disability, HIV status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, medical history or genetic information, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. DPR will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. Read more in our EEOE Policy. #J-18808-Ljbffr DPR Construction