EMEA Electrical Business Class Lead

Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking organization as the EMEA Electrical Business Class Lead, where you will play a crucial role in fostering innovation and quality within engineering practices. This exciting position involves collaborating with stakeholders to build a network of technical experts, implementing best practices, and ensuring project teams leverage expertise for optimal delivery. With a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, you will contribute to an empowering environment that values every employee's unique perspective. If you're passionate about making a difference and leading engineering excellence, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in engineering with a focus on project delivery.
• Professional registration and experience in managing diverse teams.

Responsibilities

• Drive quality initiatives and oversee complex project deliveries.
• Develop mentoring strategies and foster a culture of innovation.

Skills

Electrical Engineering

Project Management

Quality Control

Mentoring

Stakeholder Engagement

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Master's or PhD in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Project Delivery Tools

Digital Content Management

Job description

EMEA Electrical Business Class Lead - (179282)

About Us

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.

Primary Responsibilities

In the role of EMEA Electrical Business Class Lead, we'll count on you to:

• Build best in class practice - duties would include:
• Drive the community of practice
• Partner with key stakeholders to identify and develop a network of Technical Experts/Subject Matter Experts as needed to support the HDR enterprise.
• Develop and implement a mentoring and succession strategy for technical expertise.
• Develop and implement communication strategies to tie the global community of professionals together for knowledge sharing.
• Development of tools and technical excellence.
• Implement strategy for development and maintenance of project delivery tools, standards, best practices, and workflows.
• Partner with Digital Delivery on digital content and workflows.
• Drive quality throughout the program, perform design quality control reviews, and lead quality initiatives, in support of a strong quality-oriented culture.
• Assist in ensuring project teams are leveraging subject matter experts to optimize project delivery – including providing design oversight and leading teams of experts on the most complex and challenging projects.
• Foster culture of innovation and advance innovation within the practice.
• Provide critical/strategic pursuit and interview support related to respective discipline as needed, and/or identify other qualified staff within discipline.
• Recruit and retain the best talent.
• Be known by our clients and competition as the best in market.
• Awards, publish, speaking engagements, leadership opportunities with societies and technical organizations.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's or PhD in Electrical Engineering

Required Qualifications:

• 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 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

What We Believe

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.

Our Commitment

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. Each group has an executive sponsor and is open to all employees.

Primary Location

United Kingdom-England-London

Schedule

Full-time

Employee Status

Regular

Job Posting

May 22, 2024

At HDR, we are committed to the principles of employment equity.

We are an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. We consider all qualified applicants, regardless of criminal histories, arrest and conviction records.

Ready to learn more? Let's work together to make great things possible.

We design solutions to the world's greatest challenges. We're always looking for great talent to join our global teams.