North Texas ICT/Security Business Class Lead

HDR, Inc.; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

HDR, Inc. in Dallas, TX, seeks a senior leader to guide the North Texas ICT/Security engineering team. You will drive technical excellence, staff development, and business growth across multiple markets.

Responsibilities include leading design and project management for major projects, coordinating with multi-disciplinary teams, and ensuring quality control throughout planning, construction documents, and construction administration.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated leadership of multi-disciplinary teams.
• Experience in ICT/Security design and review processes.
• Strong background in network communications and wireless tech.
• Active involvement in professional associations and HDR culture.

Responsibilities

• Lead the ICT/Security engineering team in North Texas with focus on technical excellence and staff development.
• Collaborate with market sector leadership to ensure excellence in key markets.
• Engage with clients and stakeholders to support marketing, planning, and interviews.
• Lead design and project management for major projects from planning through construction administration.
• Ensure drawings, specs and calculations are developed and reviewed for quality and compliance.

Skills

Leadership

Project management

Strategic thinking

Team development

Client engagement

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or closely related field

Job description

Role Summary

Lead the North Texas Building Engineering Services ICT/Security engineering team, focusing on technical excellence, quality, recruiting, staff development, and business growth.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership for the North Texas ICT/Security engineering team with a focus on technical excellence, quality, recruiting, and staff development.
• Identify and collaborate with market sector leadership to ensure technical excellence in key markets including mission critical, commercial, civic, industrial, federal, water, transportation, healthcare, education, and laboratories facilities.
• Engage with clients and community stakeholders.
• Participate in marketing, planning, proposals, and interviews in key markets.
• Promote HDR and its ICT/Security design practice within the engineering and architecture community, including participation in conferences and with clients.
• Function as design lead or engineering project manager for key projects.
• Assist in the responsibility for operations of the ICT/Security team, including staff development, profitability, morale, and quality control.
• Lead design, coordinating and working closely with multidisciplinary design teams throughout the entire life cycle of projects from planning stages, through the development of construction documents, and construction administration.
• Ensure the team's development of drawings, specifications, and any required supporting calculations, as well as the review of shop drawings during construction.
• Assist in ensuring that all work is planned, organized, controlled, checked, and evaluated through proactive project management.
• Implement, monitor, and support company policy.
• Work cooperatively with other business class directors, operations managers, technical directors and marketing managers on business class efforts.
• Actively participate in work-sharing and ICT/Security practice development with a nation‑wide network of HDR ICT/Security designers.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a professional, architecture, engineering or closely related field.
• Actively engaged in professional or industry associations to enhance HDR technical expertise and brand.
• Technical knowledge of communications systems design and drawing production is a must.
• Degree in Electrical Engineering or similar specialty preferred.
• Maintains a professional or engineering registration and has related technical experience (PE, RCDD, or PSP).
• Background in communication systems design preferred.
• Experience with large network communications and wireless technologies.
• Preference given to local candidates.

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.
• 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.
• Active participation in HDR’s employee‑owned culture is a must.

Location

Dallas, Texas, United States