CannonDesign

General Counsel

• Drive legal strategy, influence business decisions, and provide leadership on complex legal matters.
• Influence firm’s risk profile, compliance posture, and strategic initiatives including M&A, international expansion, and corporate governance.
• Partner with executive leadership, finance, HR, and operations to align legal strategies with business objectives.
• Lead and mentor junior legal team members.
• Implement legal technologies and process improvements to enhance efficiency.
• Draft, review, analyze, and negotiate complex contracts and vendor agreements domestically and internationally.
• Lead complex contract negotiations and develop enterprise-level contract templates and playbooks.
• Provide strategic legal counsel on high-risk matters including litigation, regulatory compliance, intellectual property, and international operations.
• Resolve commercial disputes and manage litigation, coordinating with outside counsel.
• Oversee legal aspects of mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic partnerships including negotiation, due diligence, structuring, and integration.
• Serve as legal advisor on corporate matters, insurance, labor and employment, and intellectual property.
• Develop and implement legal policies and training programs across the organization.
• Work with project teams to ensure adherence to risk management and contracting policies and identify and resolve issues.
• Identify and mitigate legal risk issues across the organization.
• Manage relationships with external counsel and ensure alignment with business goals and budget.
• Mentor other members of the Legal Department and foster team growth and collaboration.
• Demonstrate leadership, critical thinking, and problem-solving across legal and business functions.
• Exhibit excellent communication and negotiation skills while applying broad relevant experience.

Legal Counsel III

Human Resources

• Act as a consultative partner between HR and the business, coaching leaders and managers to take ownership of people leadership responsibilities and guiding them through a variety of situations.
• Lead and execute key HR processes such as workforce planning, performance calibration, succession planning, and change management. Use HR metrics, analytics, and dashboards to provide insights that drive business decisions.
• Collaborate with HR centers of excellence (e.g., benefits, compensation, talent management) to ensure effective execution of programs, bringing forward business needs and feedback to shape future initiatives.
• Provide insights on trends and metrics to develop solutions, programs, and policies that support organizational goals.
• Coach leaders and managers in building high-performing teams, fostering morale, increasing engagement, and driving retention—ensuring that leadership practices are owned and executed by those in management roles.
• Collaborate with business leaders to align HR strategies with organizational goals, providing counsel on workforce planning, organizational design and talent deployment. Partner with leadership to drive employee engagement retention and culture initiatives.
• Support leadership in identifying, developing and retaining top talent. Partner with talent management to implement training, succession planning and leadership programs.
• Participate in continuous improvement efforts by developing new processes or enhancing existing ones to support evolving talent and organizational needs.
• Support the delivery and follow-up of training programs, ensuring training objectives are met.
• Provide HR policy interpretation and guidance to leaders, coaching them to take ownership of employee development, performance management, and career progression decisions. Support leaders through g employee compensation, promotions, transfers etc.
• Partner with HR operations and external counsel to guide immigration processes and decisions in collaboration with the business, including visa sponsorships, compliance tracking, and employee guidance throughout relocation and work authorization procedures.
• Assist the Employee Relations Manager in managing full-cycle employee relations issues through resolution.
• Support onboarding efforts for multiple regions or business units.
• Perform work independently and serve as a high-level specialist who regularly partners with leaders to influence strategic decisions and drive HR initiatives.
• Demonstrate initiative and sound judgment in delivering results, selecting appropriate methods and techniques to develop effective solutions.
• Identify and resolve complex issues across a variety of situations, requiring the review of multiple factors and adaptation of existing processes.
• Apply advanced knowledge of HR practices and business operations to anticipate challenges and proactively develop solutions.
• Work independently, managing priorities and driving outcomes aligned with organizational goals.

Senior Human Resources Business Partner

Program Manager

• Provide strategic consulting to healthcare executives and stakeholders on developing and executing smart hospital and digital health infrastructure strategies
• Define vision, outcomes, and measurable objectives (OKRs/KPIs) for technology-enabled hospital operations
• Offer thought leadership on how advanced technologies can enhance patient care, operational workflows, and long-term adaptability
• Advise clients on IT program structures, scope development, schedules, and budgets for smart hospital initiatives
• Guide organizations in applying best practices in project delivery, governance, and performance measurement
• Support alignment across clinical, administrative, and IT teams to ensure success of major capital and technology investments
• Oversee the planning, execution and delivery of IT projects related to smart healthcare facilities and campuses
• Evaluate, recommend, and plan the integration of healthcare IT, smart building, and digital health technologies into hospital environments
• Ensure interoperability across clinical, operational, and building systems, creating a cohesive ecosystem that enhances efficiency, clinical outcomes, and patient satisfaction
• Balance innovation with risk, cost, supportability, and long-term lifecycle considerations
• Facilitate collaboration with diverse stakeholders—including clinicians, administrators, IT, and other operational leaders—to translate needs into actionable requirements
• Support organizational change management by helping clients adapt processes and workflows to new technologies
• Lead workshops and design sessions to align stakeholders around outcomes-driven solutions
• Advise clients on vendor selection, contract structures, and ongoing performance management
• Conduct capability assessments of vendors, ensuring alignment with client objectives and enterprise standards
• Act as an independent advocate for the client in vendor negotiations and solution evaluations
• Assist with vendor management
• Provide guidance on data privacy, cybersecurity, and regulatory requirements affecting smart hospital environments
• Help clients implement robust governance frameworks to safeguard patient data and hospital systems
• Build and lead a high-performing project delivery team
• Foster a collaborative and inclusive project environment
• Stay current with emerging healthcare and smart building technologies
• Translate industry trends into actionable strategies for clients
• Support clients in developing long-term innovation roadmaps

Smart Building Consultant – Healthcare Program Manager

Electrical Engineer

• Perform electrical engineering systems design for building construction. Initiate project designs and help to develop design goals and systems.
• Oversee, guide, mentor and provide technical leadership to designers and engineering team.
• Participate or lead project teamwork planning sessions.
• May serve as project manager or project engineering leader and lead engineering meetings.
• Assume project engineering responsibilities and adhere to financial and work goals.
• Design lighting, power distribution, signaling, communications and/or telecommunication systems for healthcare, education/higher education and commercial clients per applicable codes.
• Prepare construction documents including drawings and specifications. Guide less experienced team members in execution of drawings. Specify electrical equipment.
• Serves in QAQC process and as an independent reviewer.
• Complete quality control checks of engineering documents.
• Work with the Project Manager to establish and maintain realistic work and labor plans and deliverable schedules that contribute to the project's bottom line financial success and satisfy the project's contractual obligations.
• Participate or lead value engineering sessions with Architectural/Engineering team.
• Interface effectively with clients and members of the design team.
• Recommend improvements with reference standards and processes to improve quality, coordination, and to streamline production efforts.
• Review and markup of shop drawings and submittals. Respond to RFI’s and review of change orders in the preparation of construction documents.
• Responsible for projects' construction administration. Conduct job site visits to verify existing conditions and observe construction progress. Attend and participate in construction meetings. Site visits frequently require a physical walk-through of site.
• Applies knowledge of electrical and building codes in building systems design.
• May perform other related tasks as needed.

Project Electrical Engineer V

Designer

• Identifying and being responsible for the digital requirements on a project, typically including BIM strategies, specifications, data requirements, any advanced model delivery as well as any advanced use of technology on the project
• Working with the Design Technology team to identify best practices and standard workflows as well as new strategies and tools and defining the how they will be utilized on large programs and ensuring that they are executed on the project
• Based on project specific needs either adopt CannonDesign processes and protocols or develop the needed enhancements to satisfy the project requirements and lead development or training on processes
• Establishing and leading recurring technology related meetings such as client BIM engagement meetings, contractor BIM coordination, clash detection sessions or digitally enabled design review sessions as needed
• Depending on the size of the project/program, leading a team of model managers and BIM specialists to ensure that the digital delivery is cohesive and standardized across the program delivery mechanisms
• Partnering with consultants and our clients to ensure that the digital health of the models is maintained, and digital collaboration is supported as needed
• Responsible for identifying additional technology opportunities to be leveraged on the project, leading to better client outcomes and advancing firm expertise
• Working with the Design Technology team to bring new technologies to design teams and bring design & delivery insight to the broader organization
• Travel as required
• May perform other duties as required

Senior Project Design Technologist

Content Writer

• Utilize knowledge of construction products, materials, and methods to write specifications for a variety of complex projects and building types including education, healthcare, science and technology, commercial, and interior design initiatives.
• Work as part of the project team, under the guidance of the Architect of Record, to produce Project Manuals utilizing the CannonDesign Master with specification editing software.
• Author Division 00-14 Architectural sections, and custom sections as needed, for inclusion in the Project Manual.
• Manage multiple projects and deadlines – phases, milestone deliverables for various project delivery types.
• With a Specification Coordinator, coordinate the Project Manual for all other disciplines.
• Review and provide revisions to project-specific Keynotes.
• Review in-progress drawings to ensure complete and coordinated technical specifications and offer modifications and improvements.
• Propose continual development and improvement of master specifications including specialized content for project type or regional conditions and sustainable design content.
• Maintain knowledge of industry reference standards and resources and attend industry conferences as required.
• Participate in progress meetings scheduled for assigned projects and educate less experienced staff regarding specification content.
• During CA Phase, assist project team with shop drawing and product substitution review as required.
• Collaborate with peers via firm-wide specifications writers' meetings to develop best practices, share knowledge and build community.
• Develop and maintain relationships with vendors within the firm's compliance policies.
• Support Sustainability goals of the firm.
• Act as a mentor to others and perform work with minimal degree of oversight.
• Travel as required.

Specification Writer III

• You will be responsible for the implementation and management of design technology processes, standards, and technologies across various projects.
• Assist project teams with BIM project execution planning at project kickoff and project milestones.
• Advise and help define Level of Development/Detail for deliverables.
• Author and implement standard workflows and processes.
• Identify and assist in creating content to enhance our digital asset and detail libraries.
• Evangelize, educate, and support primary design applications.
• Design and deliver educational offerings ranging from essentials to advanced use of digital technologies at CannonDesign.
• Support model managers and ensure health of the models by performing regular model audits and providing feedback to design teams.
• Continuously raise the bar in inclusion and utilization of metadata.
• Champion the use of and to leverage data collection and query for purposes of design intelligence, optimization, automation, simulation and downstream exploration for artificial intelligence.
• Lead and/or participate in various Technology related R+D effort and Special Projects.
• May perform other duties as required.

Design Technologist

Project Manager

• High level specialist providing project management, team leadership, mentoring, and quality advancement for an office/market.
• Initial assignment: project management for healthcare planning and planning stages of a 2.0+ million sq ft facility at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, collaborating with Project Managers and Leaders.
• Lead, develop and nurture partnering client relationships; maintain positive client relations and communicate design, planning, construction issues.
• Establish partnering relationship early to set shared expectations and stakeholder involvement.
• Ensure appropriate client and internal communication, documentation, and lead key meetings and presentations.
• Participate in business development and partner with Marketing and Office Leadership to grow top line.
• Understand contractual obligations; manage scope, approvals, and client payables.
• Lead project teams to develop goals and work plans to achieve quality, budget, schedule, innovation and profitability objectives.
• Facilitate development and management of work plan, budget, and schedule (MS Project, Deltek Project Planning).
• Manage design and documentation process and oversee implementation during construction.
• Maintain project records and documentation in standard file structure.
• Accountable for risk mitigation, compliance, and developing a risk management plan.
• Implement QA/QC processes; monitor technical quality and enforce standards.
• Coordinate with Project Architect and Quality leader; participate in contract negotiation and perform other duties as assigned.