Watershed Management Director: Lead Strategy & Impact

HDR; Winston-Salem (NC); On-site; USD 179,000 - 336,000; Full time

Job summary

HDR is seeking a seasoned leader for the Integrated Watershed Management Business Class Director to guide strategy, mentor technical leaders, and mobilize multi-disciplinary teams across markets and regions.

The role emphasizes risk management, client development, and quality assurance for watershed management, water supply, groundwater and water quality, with broad travel and a commitment to HDR's employee-owned culture.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Architecture, Engineering or closely related field.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in related field.
• Professional registration in Architecture/Engineering required for technical design leadership roles.
• Experience leading diverse teams and working with cross-functional leaders.

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. 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 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

Collaboration

Strategic planning

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Architecture/Engineering or related field

Professional registration (Architecture/Engineering)

Job description

HDR is seeking a seasoned leader for the Integrated Watershed Management Business Class Director to guide strategy, mentor technical leaders, and mobilize multi-disciplinary teams across markets and regions.

The role emphasizes risk management, client development, and quality assurance for watershed management, water supply, groundwater and water quality, with broad travel and a commitment to HDR's employee-owned culture.