Executive Director, Integrated Watershed Management

HDR; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 179,000 - 336,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

Retirement plan with employer match

Employee ownership

Job summary

HDR is seeking a Business Class Director for Integrated Watershed Management. The role directs technical capabilities, mentors leaders, and coordinates across market sectors and offices to meet client needs and drive project success.

The position emphasizes strategic planning, client management, and active participation in HDR’s employee-owned culture, with travel and leadership across multiple HDR locations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a Professional, Architecture, Engineering or closely related field
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in related field
• For leadership roles, maintain a professional or Architecture/Engineering registration
• Experience developing and managing diverse teams
• Ability to work cooperatively with other business class directors, operations managers and marketing managers
• Committed to quality, HDR values and employee-owned culture
• Active participant in HDR's employee-owned 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 and participate in technical risk management through process and resource reviews, providing technical advisory services on selected projects, and maintain quality standards and delivery expectations.
• 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. Ensure that technical staff are aware of and monitoring emerging technologies.
• 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.
• 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. Coordinate all strategic hires within the business group.
• 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 Technical Networking Groups sponsored by 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.

Skills

Leadership

Team management

Cross-functional collaboration

Quality assurance

Strategic planning

Education

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

Job description

HDR is seeking a Business Class Director for Integrated Watershed Management. The role directs technical capabilities, mentors leaders, and coordinates across market sectors and offices to meet client needs and drive project success.

The position emphasizes strategic planning, client management, and active participation in HDR’s employee-owned culture, with travel and leadership across multiple HDR locations.