Pump Stations and Pipelines (PS&PL) Business Class Director
About the role
This isn't just a job, it's a chance to lead change, drive progress, and leave a lasting legacy. The Pump Stations and Pipelines (PS&PL) Business Class Director plays a crucial role in shaping how communities manage water for generations to come. You'll work on projects that directly support public health, environmental sustainability, and infrastructure resilience.
Responsibilities
- Build close working relationships and coordinate with related business classes, market sectors, business groups and operations.
- Provide company-wide leadership of technical capabilities within the business class.
- Lead and participate in technical risk management through process and resource reviews, providing technical advisory services on selected projects, and claims prevention and avoidance activities.
- Drive quality assurance and control processes and coordinate with the WBG Quality Manager in those areas.
- Oversee development and application of technical tools, standards, and techniques to enhance service quality and efficiency.
- Ensure that technical staff are aware of and monitoring emerging technologies.
- Oversee assignment of qualified, experienced staff to projects including effective use of worksharing.
- Work with market sector directors to develop strategic plans for the business class and provide strategic and tactical business trend input to business group leadership.
- Lead and maintain strategic relationships with key university graduate programs to support workforce development, applied research collaboration, recruiting pipelines, and long-term capability building for the WTEM business class.
- Facilitate business class technical experts in support of client development and project pursuits.
- Ensure that business class technical experts represent HDR by involvement in industry organizations and functions including presentations and publications.
- Oversee Practice Groups within Business Class.
- Facilitate “lessons learned” for project delivery, processes, trends, successes, strengths, and weaknesses.
- Monitor company-wide performance within business class to achieve defined goals and support operational managers in monitoring project performance and implementation of corrective actions.
- Facilitate the PARR process through assignment of Lead Reviewers, acting as a Lead Reviewer, and review of requests for PARR exemptions.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in a Professional, Architecture, Engineering or closely related field.
- A minimum of 10 years of experience in related field.
- Experience in a Business Class or Professional Services leadership role.
- Experience working cooperatively with other HDR business class directors, operations managers, technical directors, and marketing managers on business class efforts.
Skills
- Experience in development and management of diverse teams.
- Works cooperatively with other business class 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.
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 is $178,952 - $336,375 depending upon skills, experience, education and geographical location.
Schedule
The geographic location of this position is non-specific; however, a location with significant HDR presence is preferred. The estimated, average travel requirement is primarily at 50% with monthly variations between 0% and 75%.