Watershed Management Director, Integrated Services

HDR; New York (NY); On-site; USD 179,000 - 336,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee ownership

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

HDR is seeking an Integrated Watershed Management Business Class Director to lead a national program delivering watershed management, water supply, and quality initiatives. The role emphasizes strategic planning, risk management, and enabling teams across HDR’s practice areas.

You will mentor technical leaders, coordinate with market sectors and operations, drive quality and client-focused delivery, and represent HDR in professional forums.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a Professional, Architecture, Engineering or closely related field.
• A minimum of 10 years of experience in related field.
• Professional or Architecture/Engineering registration.
• 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, 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 maintain quality standards and delivery expectations.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 Technical Networking Groups sponsored by 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.

Skills

Leadership

Team collaboration

Risk management

Strategic planning

Mentoring

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Architecture

Job description

HDR is seeking an Integrated Watershed Management Business Class Director to lead a national program delivering watershed management, water supply, and quality initiatives. The role emphasizes strategic planning, risk management, and enabling teams across HDR’s practice areas.

You will mentor technical leaders, coordinate with market sectors and operations, drive quality and client-focused delivery, and represent HDR in professional forums.