North Central Environmental Sciences and Planning Business Class Leader

HDR · Des Moines, IA · 1 wk ago

On-siteEngineering$160k–$252k/yrFull-time

About the Role

HDR is hiring a North Central Region Environmental Sciences and Planning Leader to provide leadership and direction in the execution of strategy and initiatives for providing environmental services to a diversity of clients across the North Central U.S. With over 110 professionals spread across 13 offices, our North Central Region Environmental Science and Planning Business Class represents a diverse team of environmental professionals working in multiple market sectors. This position can be based out of any of our offices in the North Central region and will require periodic travel across the region.

The Regional Business Class Leader (RBCL) provides strategic, operational, and people leadership for a designated Business Class across one or more HDR regions. This role ensures alignment with Operations, Business Group, and Cross-Sector strategies while driving collaboration, delivery excellence, staff development, and business growth. The role is responsible to the Environmental Cross Sector Director and the Regional Operations and Business Group leadership for developing and delivering Environmental services across all HDR Business Communities and Operating Companies in the Region.

Responsibilities

Regional Leadership and Connectivity
- Provide strategic, operational, and people leadership for the Business Class in alignment with regional and enterprise plans.
- Build strong relationships with Area Operations, Business Class/Section Leads, Business Group leadership, and peer Regional Business Class Leaders.
- Participate in regional strategic planning, budgeting, and annual alignment.
- Implement key Business Class initiatives while promoting cross-Area and cross-sector integration.
Resource Planning, Workshare & Utilization
- Coordinate staffing, workshare, utilization, and workload balancing across Areas to meet project and market demands.
- Support forecasting, capacity planning, and proactive deployment of resources.
- Maintain situational awareness of major programs to enable integrated, multi-discipline delivery solutions.
People Leadership & Professional Development
- Recruit, mentor, onboard, and develop Area Business Class/Section Leads.
- Support training, credentialing, career pathways, coaching, and performance conversations.
- Identify and develop future leaders while fostering an inclusive, collaborative, high-performance culture aligned with company values.
Business Development & Marketing Support
- Partner with Business Groups to strengthen client relationships and support growth strategies.
- Support capture planning, pursuit strategies, proposals, and marketing materials.
- Serve as Project Principal, pursuit champion, or senior advisor for high-visibility or strategic pursuits as appropriate.
Project Delivery, Quality & Best-In-Class Practices
- Provide project delivery excellence while promoting discipline-specific best practices and quality standards.
- Support project teams in resolving delivery challenges while championing innovation, continuous improvement, and alignment with HDR quality expectations, culture, and values.
Core Operating Expectations
- Lead regular coordination calls with Area Business Class/Section Leads.
- Organize and lead regional leadership meetings.
- Conduct periodic area visits.
- Support and/or lead annual regional summits or discipline forums.
- Maintain regular communication with Business Class Director and Area Leadership.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in a Professional, Architecture, Engineering, or closely related field.
- 10 years of experience in a related field.
- Experienced in development and management of diverse teams.
- Works cooperatively with other business class regional directors, operations managers, technical directors, and marketing managers on business class efforts.
- Committed to quality, improvement, and HDR values.
- An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee-owned culture is a must.
Preferred Qualifications
- Industry-recognized reputation for professional accomplishment in the North Central U.S.
- Understanding of environmental services as related to transportation, water, energy, and industrial markets across the North Central U.S.
- Demonstrated knowledge and experience leading environmental review processes.
- Demonstrated experience leading complex projects and diverse teams.
- Experience leading teams to deliver environmental services for a diverse range of market sectors across infrastructure types.

Benefits

We provide a comprehensive benefits package that promotes employee ownership, employee health, performance, and success, which includes:

Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
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.

Our eight Employee Network Groups (Asian Pacific, Black, Hispanic/Latino(a), LGBTQ+, People with Disabilities, Veterans, Women, Young Professionals) help create a sense of belonging and foster a supportive environment where everyone is empowered to engage and contribute. Each group has an executive sponsor and is open to all employees.

Pay

The expected compensation range for this position depends upon skills, experience, education, and geographical location:

Colorado: $160,090 - $251,570
Illinois: $176,099 - $251,570
Minnesota: $168,095 - $240,135

Schedule

Full-time, regular employee status.

Locations

This position can be based out of any of the following offices:

United States-Minnesota-Saint Louis Park
United States-North Dakota-Bismarck
United States-South Dakota-Rapid City
United States-Illinois-Rosemont
United States-Nebraska-Lincoln
United States-Wyoming-Cheyenne
United States-Iowa-Des Moines
United States-Missouri-Kansas City
United States-South Dakota-Sioux Falls
United States-Nebraska-Omaha
United States-Colorado-Denver
United States-North Dakota-Fargo
United States-Illinois-Chicago
United States-Wyoming-Gillette
United States-Michigan-Ann Arbor
United States-Indiana-Indianapolis
United States-Colorado-Colorado Springs
United States-Iowa-Cedar Rapids
United States-Wisconsin-Madison
United States-Michigan-Lansing