Transportation Geotechnical Business Class Leader

HDR; Lansing (MI); On-site; USD 140,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive benefits

Career development

Professional registration support

Job summary

HDR is seeking a Geotechnical Business Class Lead for national engagement in deep foundation design and construction. The role represents HDR’s capabilities to clients and guides staff to support HDR’s growth.

You will identify, hire, and manage geotechnical professionals, lead project teams, develop proposals, and participate in strategic planning while promoting HDR’s quality standards and practice excellence.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering with geotechnical focus.
• 10+ years in geotechnical design/leadership.
• Professional Engineer registration required.
• Experience leading diverse teams.
• Strong client and proposal development.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and lead geotechnical staff on deep foundation projects.
• Engage delivery projects to provide design expertise and resource reviews.
• Hire, train, and mentor geotechnical personnel.
• Promote HDR geotechnical practice and form partnerships.
• Contribute to standards, QA/QC and best practices.”
• Participate in strategic planning and project management.
• Develop marketing plans, proposals, and client interviews.
• Collaborate with the geotechnical services director to align strategy.
• Support national training and DOT program engagement.

Skills

Geotechnical leadership

Staff management

Client engagement

Project management

Technical mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Geotechnical Engineering

P.E. license

Tools

Geotechnical software

Numerical modeling

Job description

Job Summary

HDR is seeking a Geotechnical Business Class Lead for national engagement in deep foundation design and construction. The geotechnical business class lead will represent HDR geotechnical engineering to national and regional clients and clearly communicate geotechnical capabilities to aid in the procurement of work. The role includes identifying, hiring, and managing appropriate geotechnical staff to support HDR’s strategic direction and emerging markets.

Primary Responsibilities

• Coordinate, monitor, and improve technical competencies of geotechnical business class staff in deep foundation design and construction to meet client needs and market drivers.
• Engage alternate delivery projects to provide deep foundation design and construction expertise, including project approach and resource reviews for optimal team arrangement.
• Select, train, mentor and manage geotechnical personnel.
• Promote the geotechnical practice and establish partnerships to advance innovative concepts and mitigate risks for the benefit of HDR and our clients.
• Contribute to HDR’s geotechnical practice and professional discipline groups, project teams, and activities to continually improve standards and best practices, and implement effective quality assurance and quality control reviews.
• Participate in geotechnical strategic planning and implementation.
• Confirm geotechnical work is planned, organized, controlled, and evaluated through proactive project management system.
• Drive to continually refine the process to increase technical competence, efficiency of design, and quality of product.
• Function as project manager or geotechnical task lead and take responsibility for production on projects.
• Develop marketing plans and proposals, and participate in interviews while representing HDR in front of clients and during pursuit related work.
• Work proactively and collaboratively with HDR geotechnical services director to align strategies and proactively drive the geotechnical community of practice.
• Facilitate national training programs by maintaining NHI certified instructor credential and engagement in DOT training deployment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Active, or ability to get within 6 months, PE registration in AL, FL, MS, SC, and TN.
• Proficient with geotechnical aspects deep foundation construction and construction claim mitigation.
• Master of Science or higher in Engineering (Geotechnical/Geologic engineering) or equivalent level of experience.
• 15 or more years of progressive experience in advanced engineering projects leading geotechnical design efforts for public and private clients.
• Demonstrated ability to complete geotechnical investigations and analyses for foundations, embankments, slopes, excavation support and retaining structures for varied project types, including transportation clients.
• Sufficient knowledge in both rock and soil mechanics to fully understand the technical elements of each and bring advanced concept solutions to bear.
• Experience with geotechnical engineering software, and its use, to analyze static, dynamic, and seismic aspects of foundation design, including numerical modeling.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a Professional, Architecture, Engineering or closely related field.
• 10 years experience in related field.
• Maintains a professional or Engineering registration and has related technical experience.
• Experienced in development and management of diverse teams.
• Works cooperatively with other business class regional 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.

Benefits

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.)

Location

Primary Location: United States‑Alabama‑Mobile

Other Locations: United States‑Texas‑Round Rock, United States‑North Carolina‑Charlotte, United States‑Florida‑Doral, United States‑DE‑Wilmington, United States‑Wyoming‑Cheyenne, United States‑California‑Long Beach, United States‑Minnesota‑Saint Louis Park, United States‑California‑Santa Clara, United States‑Florida‑Fort Lauderdale, United States‑Pennsylvania‑Bethlehem, United States‑West Virginia‑Weirton, United States‑Oregon‑Salem, United States‑Alabama‑Daphne, United States‑Maryland‑Baltimore, United States‑Texas‑Fort Worth, United States‑Montana‑Missoula, United States‑District of Columbia‑Washington DC, United States‑Texas‑Houston, United States‑California‑Irvine, United States‑Wisconsin‑Madison, United States‑Florida‑Tallahassee, United States‑Mississippi‑Jackson area, United States‑Nevada‑Reno, United States‑Iowa‑Des Moines, United States‑New York‑Albany, United States‑Oregon‑Portland, United States‑Montana‑Bozeman, United States‑Colorado‑Durango, United States‑Texas‑Corpus Christi, United States‑Washington‑Seattle, United States‑Nevada‑Las Vegas, United States‑Montana‑Billings, United States‑Texas‑Dallas, United States‑Montana‑Helena, United States‑Washington‑Spokane, United States‑Virginia‑Arlington, United States‑Iowa‑Cedar Rivers, United States‑Washington‑Pasco, United States‑Texas‑Austin, United States‑Louisiana‑Metairie, United States‑Virginia‑Virginia Beach, United States‑Massachusetts‑Boston, United States‑Colorado‑Denver, United States‑Iowa‑Ames, United States‑Oregon‑Bend, United States‑Missouri‑St Louis, United States‑Georgia‑Savannah, United States‑Arizona‑Tucson, United States‑Arkansas‑Little Rock, United States‑Pennsylvania‑Mechanicsburg, United States‑Washington‑Olympia, United States‑Washington‑Vancouver, United States‑Colorado‑Colorado Springs, United States‑Louisiana‑Lafayette, United States‑Hawaii‑Honolulu, United States‑Oklahoma‑Tulsa, United States‑Maryland‑Fulton, United States‑Arizona‑Phoenix, United States‑Kentucky‑Louisville, United States‑Georgia‑Atlanta, United States‑South Carolina‑Greenville, United States‑Illinois‑Rosemont, United States‑Tennessee‑Knoxville, United States‑Pennsylvania‑Plymouth Meeting, United States‑California‑Walnut Creek, United States‑Oklahoma‑Oklahoma City, United States‑Tennessee‑Memphis, United States‑Montana‑Kalispell, United States‑Louisiana‑Baton Rouge, United States‑Missouri‑Springfield, United States‑Washington‑Gig Harbor, United States‑Rhode Island‑Providence, United States‑Ohio‑Cleveland, United States‑South Carolina‑Fort Mill, United States‑Florida‑Tampa, United States‑Arkansas‑North Little Rock, United States‑Ohio‑Columbus, United States‑Tennessee‑Chattanooga, United States‑Kentucky‑Lexington, United States‑Ohio‑Cincinnati, United States‑South Dakota‑Rapid City, United States‑Missouri‑Forsyth, United States‑Washington‑Bellevue, United States‑Missouri‑Kansas City, United States‑South Dakota‑Sioux Falls, United States‑North North Carolina‑Wilmington, United States‑Tennessee‑Nashville, United States‑Kentucky‑Elizabethtown, United States‑New Jersey‑Newark, United States‑Kentucky‑Paducah, United States‑Florida‑Pensacola, United States‑New Mexico‑Albuquerque, United States‑New York‑White Plains, United States‑Missouri‑Columbia, United States‑Texas‑Tyler, United States‑California‑San Francisco, United States‑South Carolina‑Charleston, United States‑Virginia‑Roanoke, United States‑South Carolina‑Columbia, United States‑Minnesota‑Thief River Falls, United States‑Virginia‑Vienna, United States‑North Carolina‑Asheville, United States‑Florida‑Orlando, United States‑Alaska‑Anchorage, United States‑Florida‑Miami Lakes, United States‑Indiana‑Indianapolis, United States‑Pennsylvania‑Pittsburgh, United States‑Wyoming‑Lander, United States‑New York‑Syracuse, United States‑California‑San Diego, United States‑Michigan‑Lansing, United States‑Pennsylvania‑Philadelphia, United States‑Virginia‑Glen Allen, United States‑Iowa‑Davenport, United States‑California‑Riverside, United States‑Nebraska‑Lincoln, United States‑Montana‑Butte, United States‑Virginia‑Newport News, United States‑Nebraska‑Omaha, United States‑New Jersey‑Pennington, United States‑California‑Sacramento, United States‑Connecticut‑Rocky Hill, United States‑New York‑New York, United States‑Oregon‑Ashland, United States‑Michigan‑Ann Arbor, United States‑Utah‑Salt Lake City, United States‑North Carolina‑Winston‑Salem, United States‑Michigan‑Detroit, United States‑North Dakota‑Bismarck, United States‑Washington‑Everett, United States‑Maine‑Portland, United States‑California‑Oakland, United States‑North Dakota‑Fargo, United States‑New Hampshire‑Manchester, United States‑New Jersey‑Woodcliff Lake, United States‑Florida‑Jacksonville, United States‑Illinois‑Chicago, United States‑California‑Los Angeles, United States‑Wyoming‑Gillette, United States‑Idaho‑Boise, United States‑North Carolina‑Raleigh, United States‑Texas‑San Antonio, United States‑Texas‑Spring Branch

Schedule & Status

Schedule: Full‑time | Employee Status: Regular | Business Class: Geotechnical | Job Posting: June 15 2026

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

At HDR, we are committed to the principles of employment equity. We are an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants, regardless of criminal histories, arrest and conviction records.