Director, Pump Stations & Pipelines

HDR; Bethlehem (Northampton County); On-site; USD 178,952 - 336,375; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee ownership benefits

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

HDR is seeking a Business Class Director for Pump Stations and Pipelines to lead the program across multiple regions, directing teams and shaping technical strategy in water conveyance projects. You will drive risk management, quality assurance, and client-focused delivery while mentoring leaders and coordinating with multiple HDR groups.

The role emphasizes employee ownership culture, collaboration with industry partners, and advancing HDR's water infrastructure capabilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Architecture/Engineering or closely related field.
• Minimum 10 years of relevant experience.
• Professional Architecture/Engineering registration required for core technical leadership roles.
• Experience leading diverse teams and collaborating with other HDR business class leaders.
• Committed to HDR values and employee ownership culture.

Responsibilities

• Provide company-wide leadership of technical capabilities within the business class.
• Build close working relationships and coordinate with related business classes, market sectors, business groups and operations.
• Lead 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.
• Oversee assignment of qualified, experienced staff to projects including effective use of worksharing.
• Work with market sector directors to develop strategic plan for the business class and provide strategic and tactical business trend input to business group leadership at the national, regional, area and local levels.
• Leads applied research strategy and engagement to advance WTEM technical capabilities, inform future service offerings, and translate research outcomes into practice standards, tools, and guidance across HDR.
• Leads and maintains 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.
• Along with Regional WTEM BC Leaders facilitate business class teamwork, communication and work sharing between offices, business classes, management, marketing, and staff.
• Monitor business class direction, adherence to policies and practices, quality assurance, technical tools, project staffing and resource to workload allocation.
• Build technical expertise and production capacity through recruitment and training.
• 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 Reviewers, and review of requests for PARR exemptions.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Architecture/Engineering or closely related field

Job description

HDR is seeking a Business Class Director for Pump Stations and Pipelines to lead the program across multiple regions, directing teams and shaping technical strategy in water conveyance projects. You will drive risk management, quality assurance, and client-focused delivery while mentoring leaders and coordinating with multiple HDR groups.

The role emphasizes employee ownership culture, collaboration with industry partners, and advancing HDR's water infrastructure capabilities.