Power Generation Senior Project Manager

HDR, Inc.; Boise (ID); On-site; USD 123,000 - 176,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

Employee ownership

Tuition reimbursement

Retirement savings with employer match

Job summary

HDR, Inc. seeks an experienced Senior Project Manager for the West Region Power Generation team in Idaho. The role leads multi-discipline projects, maintains client relationships, and pursues new work while ensuring on-time, on-budget delivery of complex power projects.

The ideal candidate has a PE license, 5+ years of PM leadership, and strong communication skills. This full-time position offers a comprehensive benefits package and employee-owned culture in a dynamic energy market.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering required.
• Minimum 10 years related experience.
• Minimum 5 years project management experience.
• Professional Engineer (PE) license required.
• MS Office and MS Project experience; Access a plus.
• Demonstrated leadership, business development and strategic planning skills.
• Commitment to employee-owned culture is a must.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain positive client relationships.
• Achieve project schedule, quality, and profitability goals.
• Serve as proposal champion/manager; assist with proposal prep and risk review.
• Provide daily leadership to project team and technical staff.
• Communicate with client to ensure alignment on deliverables and expectations.
• Monitor budget and schedule; develop recovery plans for shortfalls.
• Manage scope changes and ensure contract compliance.
• Mentor project team on management and consulting issues.
• Perform design or consulting work within engineering expertise.
• Routinely report progress to accounting and operations teams.
• Handle multiple concurrent projects and drive business development.

Skills

Client relationships

Project management

Leadership

Communication

Business development

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Professional Engineer license

Tools

MS Office

MS Project

Job description

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 foster a culture of inclusion throughout our company and within our communities, we constantly ask ourselves: What is our impact on the world?

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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.

HDR is seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to join our West Region Power Generation team. As a Senior Project Manager, you will be joining a highly capable, multi-discipline team that supports power and energy projects within the industrial, institutional, municipal, IPP and utility power and energy industry. The Senior Project Manager will be a seller-doer who helps maintain client relationships, brings in projects, develops strategies and plans for performing the work, monitors and communicates status of the project, and leads multi-discipline project teams to successful completion of the work. This role requires significant client interaction (from pre-positioning for the work through project completion) and strong verbal and written communication skills as needed for regular interaction with internal staff such as project team members, marketing staff, and operations leadership. The ideal candidate will have significant experience with both utility scale power generation systems and equipment as well as exposure with emerging market trends, including distributed generation and combined heat and power technologies and projects, as well as proven ability to plan, schedule, and lead complex design and consulting assignments.

Responsibilities include:

• Develop and maintain positive and proactive client relationships.
• Achieve project schedule, quality, and profitability goals.
• Serve as proposal champion/manager and assist with proposal preparation, review of contract terms and conditions, and evaluate risks associated with the services being offered.
• Provide daily leadership to the project team and technical staff in completion of project activities.
• Provide regular communication and coordination within the project team and with the client such that the project work plan and the client's expectations on deliverables are understood and aligned. Monitor project deliverables for quality, completeness and conformance to the client's expectations.
• Proactively monitor and maintain the project budget and schedule. Develop appropriate recovery plans in the event of potential shortfalls.
• Monitor the contracted scope of work and identify scope changes.
• Provide training and mentoring to project team staff on project management and project consulting issues.
• Perform design or consulting work in the manager's area of engineering expertise.
• Routinely report project progress to the local and regional accounting and operations team.
• Have the ability to handle multiple concurrent projects
• Demonstrated business development and strategic planning skills
• Excellent organizational, project management and communication (both written and verbal) skills
• All other duties as assigned

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Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering
• 10 years related experience
• A minimum 5 years project management experience
• Professional Engineer (PE or P.Eng) license
• MS Office and MS Project experience (Access experience would be plus)
• Demonstrated leadership, business development and strategic planning skills
• 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.

We provide a comprehensive benefits package that promotes employee ownership, employee health, performance, and success, which includes medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, life insurance, an employee assistance program, paid time away, parental leave, paid holidays, a retirement savings plan with employer match, employee referral bonus and tuition reimbursement. The expected compensation range for this position depends upon skills, experience, education and geographical location. (Stated benefits are for full-time regular positions. Temporary and part-time roles eligible for limited benefits.) Montana: $123,000- $176,000.

Primary Location: United States-Idaho-Boise

Other Locations: United States-Arizona-Phoenix, United States-Montana-Billings

Industry: Power

Schedule: Full-time

Employee Status: Regular

BusinessClass: Power Generation

Job Posting: Mar 2, 2026