Project Director - Laboratory
Cannon DesignSan Francisco, California
Full Time
Posted December 11, 2025
$166k - $208k
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Job Description
The Laboratory Project Director is a senior professional responsible for leading the planning, design, and management of laboratory and vivarium environments, ensuring scientific, operational, and regulatory requirements are met while coordinating cross-disciplinary teams and stakeholder engagement.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and facilitate laboratory and vivarium planning teams and stakeholder meetings.
- Oversee integration of laboratory and vivarium requirements into design documents and coordination efforts.
- Serve as primary liaison between scientific, architectural, and interior design teams.
- Provide expertise on laboratory workflows, equipment, space programming, and compliance standards.
- Review and validate design documents to ensure alignment with scientific and operational needs.
- Develop project goals, work plans, and manage stakeholder expectations to achieve design excellence, quality, budget, and schedule objectives.
- Implement best practices, standards, and tools to ensure quality service delivery and team productivity.
- Ensure statutory compliance and manage project documentation and communication.
- Lead team activities, provide mentorship, and foster a collaborative team environment.
- Participate in quality assurance and control processes.
Requirements
- Minimum 15 years of progressive experience in laboratory and vivarium environments in general, and 10 years minimum with specific experience on Bio Pharma laboratories and vivarium, with proven subject matter expertise.
- Minimum Bachelor’s degree or advanced degree (Master’s preferred) in a relevant scientific, engineering, or architectural field.
- Comprehensive understanding of laboratory and vivarium design, operations, and regulatory requirements.
- Demonstrated experience leading large multi-disciplinary teams in complex laboratory and vivarium planning projects.
- Ability to travel to work in South San Francisco office full-time.
- Familiarity with MS Project, Deltek Project Planning, Microsoft Office, Bluebeam, and other data management software.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to convey complex scientific and technical concepts to non-experts.
- Advanced proficiency in laboratory and vivarium space planning, programming, and workflow optimization.
- Ability to develop and lead stakeholder meetings, including facilitating Lab and Vivarium User Group Meetings with client teams, ensuring productive dialogue and actionable outcomes.
- Experience in overseeing the integration of laboratory and vivarium requirements into planning documents, architectural designs, and interior coordination efforts.
- Experience in reviewing and validating design documents, specifications, and project deliverables for alignment with scientific and operational needs.
- Proven ability to manage and coordinate workload of team members, provide leadership, and mentor team members.
- Demonstrated strong client and team leadership skills.
- Ability to develop project goals and work plans in collaboration with clients and firm leadership to achieve design excellence, quality, budget, schedule, innovation, and profitability objectives.
- Experience in implementing process expectations, best practices, reference standards, tools, templates, and technology to achieve quality service delivery and team productivity.
- Knowledge of statutory requirements for laboratory and vivarium projects.
- Ability to anticipate potential issues and ensure appropriate client and internal communication, including written project documentation regarding design, construction, and other issues.
- Active participation in QA/QC processes.
- Ability to generate and support a positive team environment, including participation, empowerment, and accomplishment.
- Experience in facilitating key meetings and presentations, including regular status updates with clients, internal project teams, and firm leadership.
Benefits & Perks
Salary range of $166,400 to $208,000 with potential for discretionary bonuses
Flexible work schedule options including paid time off and flex-time schedules
Remote work options
Full benefit package including medical, dental, and vision coverage
Flexible spending account options
Voluntary insurances
401k plan
Employee perk programs
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