Resources (Power/ Industrial/ Waste) Business Group - Construction Field Services Director
About the role
The Resources Business Group (RBG) Construction Field Services (CFS) Director provides Business Group leadership, strategy, and operational direction for RBG’s CFS program across all market sectors and geographies. This role reports to the RBG Service Delivery Director and is responsible for scaling and operationalizing a global CFS program, driving consistent delivery, profitable growth, and technical excellence.
Responsibilities
Define and lead the long-term vision and growth strategy for RBG CFS, aligned with RBG and corporate objectives.
Drive expansion toward a scaled, multi-market sector CFS business through targeted market positioning and strategic pursuits.
Partner with market sector, regional, area and technical leadership to identify and capture large, programmatic opportunities.
Operationalize and refine the RBG CFS Strategic Plan, translating initiatives into executable programs, KPIs, and performance metrics.
Align market sector, professional services and operations leadership to deliver consistent execution across regions.
Drive implementation of enterprise initiatives in alignment with RBG priorities.
Support professional services in establishing and maintaining standardized processes, procedures, and delivery frameworks across CFS.
Support professional services in codifying and deploying best practices, tools, templates, and lessons learned to ensure consistent, high-quality delivery.
Promote continuous improvement, innovation, and digital delivery across the CFS program.
In collaboration with operations, drive overall CFS financial performance, including net fees booked, net fees earned, profitability, utilization, and growth metrics.
Lead development of CFS pricing strategies, including overhead structures and markups, to support competitive positioning.
Partner with operations to optimize staffing models (HDR staff vs. contingent workers) via informed, data-driven decisions.
Collaborate with regional directors to align staffing, workload, and delivery capacity.
Support area based growth strategies and resource planning across the matrix organization.
Drive consistent approaches to project staffing, utilization, and workshare.
Lead and develop the CFS leadership team, including the Practice Lead (PL) and Business Class Lead (BCL) functions.
Establish clear accountability between strategy/growth (PL) and technical delivery (BCL).
Promote career development, succession planning, and workforce growth across PMs, CMs, and field staff.
Drive a culture of safety as a top priority in our CFS program.
Partner with RBG safety, health and environmental (SH&E) lead(s) to identify and mitigate CFS SH&E risks.
Partner with professional services leadership to verify technical quality, QA/QC, and standards compliance.
Oversee risk management practices, including project reviews, delivery oversight, and issue resolution.
Drive consistency in technical execution across market sectors and geographies.
Serve as the primary connector across CFS, market sectors, professional services and operations.
Collaborate with peer Service Line Directors (Program Management, Alternative Delivery, Advisory Services) to advance project lifecycle delivery.
Lead enterprise-level coordination to maximize HDR’s competitive advantage.
Qualifications
A strong understanding of overhead structuring, specifically within the CFS industry.
Certified Construction Manager (CCM)
Experience with estimating software, scheduling software, project management software and web-based collaboration software for the exchange of documents.
Preferred Qualifications
A strong understanding of overhead structuring, specifically within the CFS industry.
Certified Construction Manager (CCM)
Experience with estimating software, scheduling software, project management software and web-based collaboration software for the exchange of documents.
Skills
Strategic Leadership
Financial Performance
Technical Excellence
Collaboration
People Development
Entrepreneurial Mindset
Benefits
Comprehensive benefits package that promotes employee ownership, employee health, performance, and success, which 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. In North America, the pay range for this position is $187,200 - $260,000.
Schedule
Full-time
Employee Status
Regular
Business Class
Field Services