Water Program Manager - Data Centers

About the role

We are seeking a Water Infrastructure Program Manager (PgmM) to join our Water Business Group. This role will focus on developing, coordinating, and delivering water infrastructure consulting, design projects, and tasks for data center clients. The ideal candidate will have experience in managing teams through various stages of data center projects, including planning, consulting, design, and construction administration.

Responsibilities

• Develop, plan, and deliver water infrastructure projects for data center clients, including environmental, permitting, industrial water/wastewater treatment, building architecture, and other HDR disciplines.
• Collaborate with teams inside HDR to support water infrastructure tasks and work with vendors and subconsultants as needed.
• Manage teams working on tasks from front-end site due-diligence evaluation, consulting, planning, and detailed design support through the construction administration and commissioning phases of data center projects.
• Support water sustainability initiatives aligned with client goals.
• Execute HDR’s water infrastructure scopes and responsibilities by collaborating with practices and professional discipline groups across HDR.
• Oversee the execution of consulting, planning, and design scope delivery, ensuring performance, financial metrics, schedule, quality, contractual compliance, HDR task order safety planning, risk mitigation, and excellent client experience and satisfaction.
• Participate in and oversee the execution of consulting, planning, and design scope delivery, including day-to-day coordination of new potential task orders with the client and HDR’s Tech/Media/Telecom (TMT) business development teams.
• Work with TMT leadership and business development teams to grow HDR’s water-related work for data center clients and continue our growth as one of the top data center designers in the world.
• Collaborate with business development teams to identify and develop opportunities and pursue projects, and work with HDR’s client managers and interface with clients to formulate project approaches and develop detailed project scopes that meet client expectations.
• Travel up to 20-30% of the time to diverse geographic locations as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Mechanical, Chemical, Environmental, Civil, or other similar engineering disciplines.
• Experienced in development and management of client relationships and specific program/project pursuits.
• Experience working cooperatively with multiple HDR positions such as Market Sector Leadership, Business Class Directors, Regional Business Group Directors, Area Business Group Managers, and Area Managers.
• Demonstrated commitment to HDR values and an attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee-owned culture.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, works well in a team and matrix environment, highly motivated, articulate, and self-starting.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Platforms, including MS Office and MS Project.
• Project management experience with winning and delivering projects in the Data Center and other industrial sectors, with responsibility for budget, schedule, contractual obligations, and quality standards.

Preferred Qualifications

• Registration as a Professional Engineer (PE or P.Eng).
• PMP certification.
• Experience designing industrial water and wastewater treatment plants, including development of conceptual/preliminary designs and detailed design document preparation.
• Knowledge of Google Workspace platforms (formerly G Suite or Google Apps).