Hydraulic Services Practice Lead

About the role

The Hydraulics Services Practice Lead role at HDR is a strategic and technical leadership position that integrates market development with practice excellence across the Area. This role drives growth, ensures high-quality project delivery, and develops 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.
• Collaborate with national and regional technical leaders to maintain a cutting-edge, competitive practice and manage workshare.
• Mentor and develop staff, fostering a culture of technical excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Maintain a professional or engineering registration and has related technical experience.
• Support succession planning and career development initiatives.
• Support consistent training, standardized workflows, and skill development in the Hydraulics production.

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.
• 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

• 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.
• 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.