Senior Water Utility Operations Consultant

HDR, Inc.; Colorado; On-site; USD 116,000 - 192,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Retirement Plan

Tuition Assistance

Paid Time Off

Job summary

HDR, Inc. in Colorado is seeking a Senior Utility Operations Consultant to join HDR's Utility Management Services, driving high-level operational consulting for drinking water, wastewater, and reuse programs across client utilities.

You will lead process improvements, asset management planning, regulatory support, and design reviews from an operations perspective, mentoring staff and delivering tangible reliability gains for municipal water systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• Master’s degree in civil, environmental, or related technical discipline
• Professional licensure, license or certification may be required based on role

Responsibilities

• Provide high-level operational consulting at all organizational levels within drinking water, wastewater, and potable reuse utilities.
• Lead operational troubleshooting to diagnose and resolve process upsets, equipment and performance issues, and reliability problems across treatment, transmission, and distribution systems.
• Drive operating process improvement – optimizing unit processes, SOPs, staffing and workflow, energy and chemical use, and overall operational efficiency.
• Develop and implement asset management strategies and programs with HDR's asset management teams.
• Support regulatory compliance efforts across drinking water, wastewater, and reuse programs.
• Provide reuse operations expertise – advising on direct and indirect potable reuse operations, treatment reliability, monitoring, and regulatory frameworks.
• Partner with process designers to evaluate operability, maintainability, safety, and life-cycle cost from an operational perspective.
• Mentor and develop technical staff and engage in professional organizations.
• Support project delivery across master and facility planning, business case evaluations, operations optimization studies, and asset management programs.
• Contribute to client development and pursuits – proposals, interviews, and trusted-advisor relationships.
• Implement QA/QC reviews and uphold HDR values of quality and continuous improvement.

Skills

Operational consulting

Water/wastewater operations

Process troubleshooting

Asset management

Regulatory compliance

Design review perspective

Leadership / mentoring

Client relations

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Master’s degree in civil, environmental, or related technical discipline

Professional licensure (PE) or registration

Tools

Asset management software

Condition assessment tools

Operational decision-support tools

Job description

HDR, Inc. in Colorado is seeking a Senior Utility Operations Consultant to join HDR's Utility Management Services, driving high-level operational consulting for drinking water, wastewater, and reuse programs across client utilities.

You will lead process improvements, asset management planning, regulatory support, and design reviews from an operations perspective, mentoring staff and delivering tangible reliability gains for municipal water systems.