Wastewater Treatment Business Class Lead
HDR
- Portland, OR
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Staff Development
- Recruit, select, train, develop, and manage technical personnel.
- Manage and develop multidisciplinary teams.
- Take responsibility for operations of production section including utilization, morale, quality control and marketing support.
- Implement, monitor, and support company policy.
- Supervise engineers and junior staff (assumed in the 2-5 person range).
- Technical Excellence
- Participate in delivery of project services through planning, design, and construction phases to meet client expectations, including project management.
- Function as a project manager and lead critical area and regional projects.
- Take responsibility for area coordination, monitoring and improvement of technical competencies of business class staff and products.
- See that all work is planned, organized, controlled and evaluated through proactive project management.
- Participate in delivery of project services to meet client expectations.
- Collaborate on business class efforts with area operations, marketing, project managers, and project delivery staff.
- Develop and lead technical and marketing initiatives.
- Support development of technical experts.
- Participate in business class 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.
- Conduct quality assurance and quality control reviews where appropriate, or assist technical teams in finding appropriate reviewers.
- Marketing and Strategy
- Be directly involved in marketing planning, proposals, and interviews.
- Participate in business class strategic planning, budgeting and plan implementation.
- Drive area initiatives that are relative to the business class.
- Collaborate nationally with other wastewater treatment business class leads and other wastewater treatment experts.
- Perform other duties as needed
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, or Construction Management
- 10 years of experience in wastewater treatment/quality
- Committed to quality, improvement and HDR values
- Strong technical background and experience in planning and design
- Maintains a professional or engineering registration and has related technical experience experienced in development and management of diverse teams
- Works cooperatively with other area business class leaders, operations managers, technical directors and marketing managers on business class efforts
- An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee-owned culture is a must
- Ability to travel; must be in each office with wastewater treatment staff at least once per year and be present in Bellevue for leadership and key meetings 1-2 times per month.
- Strong active listening and communication skills
- Project management and business management skills
- Master's degree is a plus
- Active engagement in professional or industry organizations to enhance HDR technical expertise and brand both locally (e.g., PNWS AWWA, PNCWA) and nationally (e.g., WEFTEC, WRF)
- Proven leadership and mentoring skills that are necessary to grow and lead a business group