East Region Alternative Delivery Lead

About the role

This position will be involved with all aspects of our power delivery AD program. The successful candidate will drive collaboration between HDR’s global power delivery staff and our construction teaming partners, focusing on mitigating the inherent engineering risks associated with AD projects.

Responsibilities

• Provide overall leadership and responsibility for elevating the power delivery AD program within HDR’s East Region, which includes Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Washington D.C., Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama and Mississippi.
• Partner with business development, operations and technical leadership to develop new opportunities, markets and staffing plans.
• Drive teaming agreement negotiations with potential construction partners that align with HDR’s business goals and initiatives.
• Lead and drive development of a power delivery front-end engineering and design (FEED) team that evaluates and mitigates technical risk of AD opportunities prior to and during the Go/No-Go evaluation.
• Review AD project intel, opportunities and RFPs to estimate technical investments prior to the Go/No-Go discussion.
• Assist in Go/No-Go discussions, project risk assessments, SOQs, proposals, interviews, and negotiations as required.
• Collaborate with HDR regional and area operations leaders, market sector leaders, practice leaders, project managers, commercial managers, and project teams to deliver world-class quality in engineering, environmental, real estate, geospatial and construction support services for power delivery AD projects.
• Drive development of AD project teams, including AD project managers, technical leaders, project controls and commercial managers.
• Provide AD best practice guidance to pursuit and project delivery teams.
• Collaborate with HDR regional and area operations leaders, market sector leaders, practice leaders, project managers, commercial managers, and project teams to deliver world-class quality in engineering, environmental, real estate, geospatial and construction support services for power delivery AD projects.
• Provide project delivery support including contract administration and management.
• Serve as the Project Manager or Engineering Manager on select power delivery projects, including both AD and traditional design-bid-build delivery.
• Provide oversight of a production section including project delivery, staffing, recruiting, quality, utilization, workload forecasting, work-sharing, safety and morale.
• Mentor and develop other employees.
• Perform other duties as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Civil and/or Mechanical Engineering, Construction Management, or similar combination of relevant education and experience.
• Minimum 15 years of power delivery experience.
• Minimum 5 years building and/or managing engineering teams on EPC projects.
• Strong leadership skills and project management experience with multiple remote teams is preferred.
• Understands contractual risk and mitigation strategies in AD models.
• Proven experience managing projects, client relationships, proposal development, and business development.
• Self-starter with excellent writing and communication skills.
• Strong conceptual, organizational, problem solving, and collaboration skills.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office and conferencing platforms (Zoom, WebEx, Teams, etc.).

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in related field.
• Minimum 10 years related experience.
• Familiar with Microsoft Office, estimating and scheduling software, project management software.
• Ability to interact with various design teams, have excellent organizational, project management and communication (both written and verbal) skills.
• An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee-owned culture is a must.

Benefits

Our comprehensive benefits package includes medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, life insurance, an employee assistance program, paid time away, parental leave, paid holidays, a retirement savings plan with employer match, employee referral bonus and tuition reimbursement.

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.) The targeted salary range for this position (based on experience and location) is $118,703 - $245,000.

Schedule

Full-time

Employee Status

Regular

Business Class

Transmission/Distribution Eng