Wastewater & Effluent Leadership Director

HDR; City of Albany (NY); On-site; USD 178,952 - 336,375; Full time

Job summary

HDR is seeking a WTEM Business Class Director to lead HDR’s wastewater and effluent management program, directing technical quality, risk management, and client-focused delivery across multiple markets. You will mentor leaders, drive strategic planning, and coordinate with market sectors, operations, and regional teams to elevate service offerings and maintain HDR’s reputation for technical excellence.

This role offers a non-specific location with significant HDR presence, up to 50% travel, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or closely related field.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in related field.
• Professional registration (PE or architectural/engineering) as required for leadership roles.
• Experience in developing and managing diverse teams.
• Ability to work cooperatively with HDR directors, managers and marketing teams.

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 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 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

Strategic planning

Project management

Technical advisory

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or closely related field

Job description

HDR is seeking a WTEM Business Class Director to lead HDR’s wastewater and effluent management program, directing technical quality, risk management, and client-focused delivery across multiple markets. You will mentor leaders, drive strategic planning, and coordinate with market sectors, operations, and regional teams to elevate service offerings and maintain HDR’s reputation for technical excellence.

This role offers a non-specific location with significant HDR presence, up to 50% travel, and