Design Review Practice Lead

Remote or Hybrid (Honolulu, Hawaii)Full-Time$150,000 – $200,000 / Annual

MC3 Technologies is a Hawaii-born defense technology and integration company serving defense, federal, and commercial clients across the Pacific and beyond.
We bring cybersecurity, physical security, systems integration, software, and facility delivery together under one roof, so the systems our customers depend on are designed, built, and accredited right the first time.
Wherever we work, we grow local talent and invest in our people as much as in our technology.
How we move: MC3 is an agile, fast-growing company with small teams that have real ownership, decisions made close to the work, and modern tools, including AI, built into how we deliver.
If you want your work to matter quickly and to grow with a company that is still being built, this is the place.
Engineering at MC3: our engineers design, review, and support delivery on fast-moving facility and infrastructure projects, working side by side with builders and our cyber and software teams so systems get built and accredited without rework.

The Practice Lead builds and runs MC3's design review practice for prototype and accelerated projects, where reviews have to keep pace with the design instead of holding it up
Location: Remote or hybrid from Honolulu, with travel to project sites as needed
Type: Full-time or part-time (W-2)
Reports to: Principal and CTO
Clearance: Clearable to Secret or higher

Stand up the review process: intake, discipline assignment, comment standards, QC check, and closeout for 35, 65, 95, and 100 percent design submittals and construction submittals
Recruit, onboard, and schedule discipline engineers, both staff and on-call
Manage reviews in the client's review system; track comment resolution through backcheck
Hold the line on comment quality: every comment cites the governing standard or code clause, states the issue, and gives a fix
Run interdisciplinary coordination checks (biddability, constructability, operability, environmental, and sustainability)
Scope and price review task orders with the Principal; serve as the client's single point of contact
Turn lessons learned into review checklists for each discipline
Run rolling and over-the-shoulder reviews that fit agile and design-build schedules, with a 48 to 72 hour turnaround standard
Build AI-assisted review workflows (criteria lookup, spec-to-submittal comparison, comment drafting) and set the rules for verifying their output

Bachelor's degree in engineering or architecture
12+ years in design or construction, including 5+ years leading design reviews on DoD, federal, or large public projects
Has managed design reviews on DoD projects
Working knowledge of federal and DoD design and construction standards
Has supervised a team of 5+ engineers or reviewers
Willing to travel to project sites across the Pacific and other locations as the construction schedule requires
Preferred: Professional Engineer license or architectural registration
Preferred: Former DoD design manager, technical lead, or construction field office engineer
Preferred: Experience on OTA prototype or progressive design-build projects
Preferred: Familiarity with DoD cybersecurity requirements for facility control systems
Preferred: Pacific or OCONUS project experience

Citizenship: US citizenship required
Clearance: Able to obtain and maintain a Secret clearance or higher
Work arrangement: Full-time or part-time W-2
Part-time W-2 pay: about $72 to $96 per hour (hourly equivalent of the full-time base)
Travel: Required for every role. Travel to project sites across the Pacific and other locations as the construction schedule requires, with a valid passport. MC3 provides all logistics, travel, and relocation support and allowances
How design review roles work: rolling reviews alongside the design team, 48 to 72 hour comment turnaround, AI-assisted engineering on secure tools, and willingness to step outside your primary discipline or travel to project sites as the build requires
DoD familiarity: working knowledge of the DoD criteria, processes, and requirements that apply to the role, such as federal and DoD design and construction standards, design and submittal review, RMF and cybersecurity, security and site access, and contract deliverables
Training: MC3 trains every hire in agile design-build delivery, rolling reviews, and AI-assisted engineering on MC3-approved secure tools; prior experience with these is a plus, not a requirement
MC3 Technologies is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or protected veteran status