GA/AL/MS Pump Station and Pipelines Business Class Leader

GA/AL/MS Pump Station and Pipelines Business Class Leader

At HDR, our employee-owners are fully engaged in creating a welcoming environment where each of us is valued and respected, a place where everyone is empowered to bring their authentic selves and novel ideas to work every day. As we work to weave diversity, equity, and inclusion into our work and foster a sense of belonging throughout the company and within our communities, we constantly ask ourselves: What is our impact on the world? Each and every role throughout our organization makes a difference in our ability to change the world for the better. Read further to learn how you could help make great things possible not only in your community, but around the world.

HDR has an excellent opportunity in the Georgia-Alabama/Mississippi Water Business Group for a professional to lead the growth, control, direction, and quality of the Area's Pump Station and Pipelines Business Class. The Business Class Leader (BCL) is a professional that is well versed in all aspects of Business Class (BC) services for pump stations and pipeline projects and leads a group of business class professionals. Given the current backlog of conveyance work and upcoming opportunities for continued growth, we have an immediate need to fill this BC position. The duties of the Pump Station and Pipelines BCL are to plan, direct and oversee all aspects of large-scale multi-discipline and multi-benefit projects with a high degree of technical complexity. The position will build and maintain client relations and participate in project development and contract document preparation. The person will work with senior, mid- and junior-level staff across a variety of disciplines. The position will participate in and provide oversight of a variety of project types including planning, design, inspection and construction management of pump station and pipelines and general site civil of major water, wastewater and reclaimed water infrastructure. The position will coordinate projects with inter-related disciplines such as structural, geology, geotechnical, civil, mechanical, CADD and GIS. The position will also require coordination with HDR's other regional and national business class technical leads and advisors.

As a Business Class Lead, you will participate in the corporate management of the pump station and pipeline business class program. Work assignments may include technical and quality reviews of projects outside of your geographic area. Primary responsibilities include: providing leadership with technical capabilities within the Pump Station and Pipelines BC Delivery focus of technical skills, integrating national Pump Station and Pipeline BC initiatives into local area operations, maintaining appropriate QA/QC procedures and best practices, monitoring area performance within BC to achieve defined goals, supporting top line growth across all market sectors in their technical area of focus, facilitating BC teamwork, communication and work sharing between Area offices, business classes, market sectors, management, marketing, and staff, serving as client manager, project principal and/or PM, actively participating in projects or managing projects to meet assigned utilization rate, serving as a senior technical resource on projects and programs, building and retaining strong relationships with Staff, Project Managers, Client Development Managers throughout the Area and within HDR in the SW Region, providing strategic and tactical input on business trends to BC and local office planning, managing staff workloads and making recommendations for adjustments and recruiting as needed, managing training and licensing requirements and identifying opportunities for continuing education, developing a technical mentoring and employee advancement process to advance staff, championing marketing opportunities to grow the practice, supporting Area pursuits and actively participating in and supporting proposal development, identifying project needs and recruiting professionals to join our HDR team, demonstrating a "can-do" problem solver approach to colleagues and clients, building positive client relationships, strong communication, negotiation and presentation skills, and the ability to manage and motivate direct reports.

Preferred qualifications include proficiency with MS Office Suite, specifically, Outlook, Word, Excel, Project and SharePoint or equivalent database, minimum of 7 years' experience leading projects and teams with a focus on pump stations and pipelines, proven ability to manage projects and teams effectively, experience managing budgets, preparing scopes and developing cost estimates, excellent written and strong communication and listening skills, strong leadership and organizational, planning, and prioritization skills, ability to work efficiently and effectively under tight deadlines, as well as balance multiple projects by prioritizing effectively, ability to understand applicable industry standards, laws, policies and procedures that each project is governed by, advanced analytical and problem-solving skills, proven ability of contract development and implementation of capital improvements, strong project management skills, success-oriented attitude and self-starter who takes initiative.

Required qualifications include a 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, an attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee-owned culture is a must.

HDR is our company. Together, we build on each other's life experiences and perspectives to make great things possible every day. This shapes our collaborative culture, encourages organizational trust and connects us closer to the clients and communities we serve. As employee owners, we all have a role in creating an inclusive environment where each of us is welcomed, valued, respected and empowered to bring our authentic selves to work every day. 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.