Strategic Wastewater & Effluent Management Director

HDR; Saint Louis Park (MN); On-site; USD 178,952 - 336,375; Full time

Job summary

HDR is seeking a WTEM Business Class Director to lead the Wastewater Treatment and Effluent Mgmt program. You will direct technical capabilities, mentor staff, and collaborate with market sectors, operations, and marketing to advance the practice.

The role requires 10+ years of experience, a relevant degree, and professional registration, with travel up to 50% and location-flexible presence across HDR offices in the United States. HDR emphasizes an employee-owned culture and quality delivery.

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 claims prevention and avoidance activities.
• 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.
• Oversee assignment of qualified, experienced staff to projects including effective use of worksharing.
• 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.
• Leads applied research strategy and engagement (e.g., Water Research Foundation and similar organizations) to advance WTEM technical capabilities, inform future service offerings, and translate research outcomes into practice standards, tools, and guidance across HDR.
• Leads and maintains strategic relationships with key university graduate programs to support workforce development, applied research collaboration, recruiting pipelines, and long-term capability building for the WTEM business class.
• Along with Regional WTEM BC Leaders 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 Practice Groups within Business Class.
• Facilitate "lessons learned" for project delivery, processes, trends, successes, strengths, and weaknesses.
• Monitor company-wide performance within business class to achieve defined goals and support operational managers in monitoring project performance and implementation of corrective actions.
• Facilitate the PARR process through assignment of Lead Reviewers, acting as a Lead Reviewers, and review of requests for PARR exemptions.

Skills

Leadership

Team management

Engineering leadership

Quality focus

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/Architecture

Job description

HDR is seeking a WTEM Business Class Director to lead the Wastewater Treatment and Effluent Mgmt program. You will direct technical capabilities, mentor staff, and collaborate with market sectors, operations, and marketing to advance the practice.

The role requires 10+ years of experience, a relevant degree, and professional registration, with travel up to 50% and location-flexible presence across HDR offices in the United States. HDR emphasizes an employee-owned culture and quality delivery.