IWM Business Class Director: Lead Watershed Solutions

HDR; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 179,000 - 336,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Employee assistance program

Paid time off

Parental leave

Paid holidays

Retirement savings plan with employer?

Employee referral bonus

Tuition reimbursement

Employee ownership

Job summary

HDR is an employee-owned firm where our people lead change. The Integrated Watershed Management Business Class Director directs technical capabilities, builds cross-office relationships, manages risk, and maintains quality to meet client needs while guiding strategic hires and staff development.

The role supports client management, proposal and project development, and active participation in professional organizations to raise the practice’s profile.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a Professional, Architecture, Engineering or closely related field.
• A minimum of 10 years of experience in related field.
• For Business Class leadership roles for which the core service being overseen is technical design, the role must maintain a professional or Architecture/Engineering registration and has related technical experience.
• Experienced in development and management of diverse teams.
• Works cooperatively with other business class directors, operations managers, technical directors and marketing managers on business class efforts.
• Committed to quality, improvement and HDR values.
• An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee-owned culture is a must.

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

Education

Bachelor's degree in a Professional, Architecture, Engineering or closely related field

Job description

HDR is an employee-owned firm where our people lead change. The Integrated Watershed Management Business Class Director directs technical capabilities, builds cross-office relationships, manages risk, and maintains quality to meet client needs while guiding strategic hires and staff development.

The role supports client management, proposal and project development, and active participation in professional organizations to raise the practice’s profile.