Hydraulic Services Practice Lead

About the role

The Hydraulics Services Practice Lead role is a strategic and technical leadership position within HDR's Transportation Business Group. This role integrates market development with practice excellence across the Area, driving growth, ensuring high-quality project delivery, and developing talent within the Hydraulics Business Class.

Responsibilities

• Serve as Project Manager or Technical Project Lead for key/critical projects or programs.
• Provide Area leadership for the Hydraulics practice, ensuring technical excellence, consistency, and competitive delivery.
• Cook up workload and staffing plans, and provide technical training to the team.
• Coordinate with State Highway Section Managers to plan workload and staffing, as well as technical training of the team.
• Lead strategic planning and execution for market growth within the Hydraulics practice area.
• Build and maintain strong client relationships, including understanding client needs, funding mechanisms, regulatory environments, and digital requirements.
• Partner with Area Business Development Lead and others to identify and pursue new business opportunities.
• Oversee project delivery performance, proactively troubleshooting issues and supporting resolution planning.
• Establish, advance, and enforce best practices, tools, standards, and workflows across Hydraulics, including any Digital Design and Delivery.
• Oversee quality assurance processes, including critical project reviews, model reviews, and 3D model quality control.
• Serve as the area point of contact for any Hydraulic Digital Design and Delivery strategy and coordination with national Business Class and Digital Delivery leadership.
• Establish and maintain client-specific Digital Design and Delivery standards, BIM requirements, and digital workspaces.
• Participate in monthly coordination calls with business class, regional, and client leadership.
• Participate in annual reviews of staff, when appropriate.

Qualifications

• 15 years’ experience in a Professional, Architecture, Engineering or closely related field.
• Professional Engineer (PE) license.
• Excellent communication, leadership and organizational skills.
• Knowledge of the local market.
• Ability to work cooperatively with area manager, area business group managers, area business development lead, and area professional services lead.

Preferred 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.

Benefits

At HDR, we are committed to the principles of employment equity. We are an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. We consider all qualified applicants, regardless of criminal histories, arrest and conviction records.