At Mott MacDonald, we are driven by purpose and powered by brilliant people. As a trusted engineering, management, and development consultancy, we work with clients to solve complex challenges and deliver sustainable outcomes that make a meaningful difference for the communities we serve.
When you join us as an experienced professional, you will bring your expertise to work that matters while continuing to grow your career. You will collaborate with talented colleagues across disciplines and geographies, contribute your perspective, and help shape better outcomes through technical excellence, innovation, and integrity.
Build on your experience while helping shape what comes next. At Mott MacDonald, you'll work alongside talented people on complex and rewarding projects that make a real difference. We value fresh perspectives, encourage collaboration, and provide opportunities to expand your skills, take on current challenges, and grow your career. Whether you're deepening your technical expertise, broadening your leadership experience, or exploring new opportunities across our business, you'll be supported by a team that is committed to helping you succeed.
Mott MacDonald is undertaking large infrastructure projects across Canada. With this growth, our team will be seeking a Project Design Quality Manager with demonstrated experience implementing and managing design quality on major projects, as well as lead project quality initiatives across some of the region's other infrastructure programs.
This role will provide strategic and operational leadership for project design quality management across transportation, aviation, rail & transit, highways, water, energy, and infrastructure projects. Working closely with project leadership teams, clients, contractors, and delivery partners,



you will develop Project Quality Management Plans, be responsible for project team adherence to those plans, represent Mott MacDonald in client-led project and internal audits, and generally drive a culture of quality, continuous improvement, and right-first-time delivery. This includes ensuring compliance with regulatory obligations, contractual commitments, and our corporate standards.
Working from one of our Canadian offices, the successful candidate will be responsible for quality compliance throughout the project lifecycle from planning and design through construction, commissioning, and handover.

Key responsibilities
for the Design Quality Manager include:
Lead the development and implementation of project-specific Project Quality Management Plans (PQMPs), project quality objectives, KPIs, and reporting frameworks in compliance with client, contractual, regulatory, and corporate quality requirements with a focus on design quality assurance and verification requirements throughout the project lifecycle.
Provide project quality leadership and independent oversight of design quality management, design verification, interdisciplinary coordination reviews, and technical assurance activities across project planning, design, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, and handover activities..
Act as the primary project quality representative with clients, regulators, contractors, and delivery partners.




Deliver project related quality training, mentoring, and best-practice guidance to project teams.
Capture project lessons learned and drive continuous improvement across other major projects and programs.
Lead project quality audits, surveillance activities, supplier assessments, and assurance reviews across major projects, including design quality audits and reviews of design verification and validation processes.
Manage project non-conformances, corrective actions, root-cause investigations, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Oversee project quality documentation, including design quality records, review evidence, and design assurance documentation, inspection and test plans (ITPs), quality work plans, and quality control processes.
Monitor contractor, consultant, and supplier quality performance and identify emerging risks and improvement opportunities on project.
Support program assurance, stage-gate reviews, risk management processes, and project governance activities, including assessment of design readiness and compliance with design quality requirements.
Develop project quality dashboards, metrics, and performance reporting for project and executive leadership teams.
The successful candidate will bring the below skills, qualifications and experiences to this role;
Bachelor's degree in Engineering, or a related discipline.
Professional Engineering certification.10–15 years of senior-level design quality management experience supporting major multidisciplinary engineering programs.
Demonstrated experience developing and implementing Project Quality Management Plans, Project Quality Assurance programs, audit programs, and corrective action processes.
Experience leading p

📌 Design Quality Manager (Winnipeg)
🏢 Mott MacDonald
📍 Winnipeg