Area Drinking Water Business Class Lead

About the role

This isn't just a job, it's a chance to lead change, drive progress, and leave a lasting legacy. As part of HDR’s Minnesota and Wisconsin Water Business Group, our Drinking Water team is recognized throughout the region in the planning, design, and delivery of complex water infrastructure projects, including water system planning, water quality, condition assessment, and drinking water treatment facilities.

Responsibilities

• Participate in project delivery from planning, design, through construction phases to meet client expectations
• Serve as a project manager or design manager and lead critical area and regional projects
• Oversee coordination, monitoring, and improvement of technical competencies of business class staff and deliverables
• Use proactive project management to verify that all work is planned, organized, controlled, and delivered
• Collaborate on business class efforts with area operations, marketing, project managers, and project delivery staff
• Develop and lead technical and marketing initiatives
• Participate in business class practice and professional discipline groups, project teams, and activities to continually improve standards and best practices, and implement effective quality assurance and quality control reviews
• Conduct quality assurance and quality control reviews where appropriate, or assist technical teams in finding appropriate reviewers
• Staff Development
• Recruit, hire, train, develop, and manage technical personnel
• Manage and develop multidisciplinary teams, including monitoring utilization, morale, quality control, and marketing support
• Business Development
• Actively participate in marketing planning, proposals, and interviews
• Lead business class strategic planning, budgeting, and plan implementation
• Drive area initiatives related to water treatment
• Collaborate with water treatment business class leads and water treatment experts across the country

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a Professional, Architecture, Engineering or closely related field
• 10 years of experience
• Committed to quality, improvement and HDR values
• Maintains a professional or engineering registration and has related technical experience
• Experienced in development and management of diverse teams
• Works cooperatively with other area business class leaders, operations managers, technical directors and marketing managers on business class efforts

Preferred Qualifications

• Actively engaged in professional or industry associations to enhance HDR technical expertise and brand both locally and nationally

Pay

The expected compensation range for this position depends upon skills, experience, education and geographical location. (Stated benefits are for full-time regular positions. Temporary and part-time roles eligible for limited benefits.) Minnesota: $140,000 - $195,000