Senior Historic Preservation Program Lead

HDR; San Antonio (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

HDR, Inc. is seeking a South Central Historic Preservation Program Lead to guide historic preservation and cultural resources work across the South Central region.

You will lead projects from inception to completion, grow client relationships, and coordinate with marketing, archaeology, and environmental teams. The role requires senior-level expertise in historic preservation, architecture, and related planning, with strong leadership, communication, and project-management skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• A minimum of 7 years experience.
• Professional registration, license or certification may be required based on role.
• Strong communication and listening skills.
• Ability to handle multiple assignments.
• Good leadership and organizational skills.
• An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee-owned culture is a must.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the South Central Historic Preservation Program Lead and senior project manager for historic preservation, architectural history, and preservation planning work across the South Central Cultural Resources practice.
• Grow new business in historic preservation services by identifying target clients, developing client relationships, supporting pursuits, preparing scopes, and developing cost estimates for preservation-focused work.
• Collaborate with marketing and business development leadership to market existing and new clients that may benefit from HDR’s historic preservation services.
• Lead and manage preservation projects from inception through completion, including schedules, budgets, scopes, staffing plans, deliverables, quality reviews, client communication, and corrective actions when work varies from approved schedule or cost parameters.
• Expand and deliver existing historic preservation and cultural resources services, including on-call preservation expertise, historic resource surveys, NRHP evaluation and nomination support, local historic district development, area plans, and preservation-related research and storytelling.

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Master's degree in historic preservation, architectural history, architecture, planning, public history, anthropology, archaeology, or a closely related field

Job description

HDR, Inc. is seeking a South Central Historic Preservation Program Lead to guide historic preservation and cultural resources work across the South Central region.

You will lead projects from inception to completion, grow client relationships, and coordinate with marketing, archaeology, and environmental teams. The role requires senior-level expertise in historic preservation, architecture, and related planning, with strong leadership, communication, and project-management skills.