Area Drinking Water Business Class Lead

At HDR, our employee-owners are fully engaged in creating a welcoming environment where each of us is valued and respected, a place where everyone is empowered to bring their authentic selves and novel ideas to work every day. As we foster a culture of inclusion throughout our company and within our communities, we constantly ask ourselves: What is our impact on the world?

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Each and every role throughout our organization makes a difference in our ability to change the world for the better. Read further to learn how you could help make great things possible not only in your community, but around the world.

We believe water is more than a resource, it's a shared responsibility. As part of our Water Business Group, you'll help shape how communities manage water for generations to come. From delivering safe drinking water and treating wastewater responsibly to developing sustainable water supplies and protecting lives and property through flood control, your work will directly support public health, environmental sustainability, and infrastructure resilience. We bring together experts across disciplines to solve complex challenges with bold thinking and technical excellence. Whether you're modernizing aging systems or pioneering innovative approaches, your contributions will make a meaningful difference in people's lives. This isn't just a job, it's a chance to lead change, drive progress, and leave a lasting legacy.

As part of HDR's Minnesota and Wisconsin Water Business Group, our Drinking Water team is recognized throughout the region in the planning, design, and delivery of complex water infrastructure projects, including water system planning, water quality, condition assessment, and drinking water treatment facilities. As the Water Treatment Business Class Lead, you will work with Water Business Group leadership to lead, shape, and grow HDR's water treatment business in Minnesota and Wisconsin.

Our employee-owned culture creates a workplace atmosphere of collaboration, learning, enrichment, and inclusion. Collaboration is a cornerstone of our design delivery approach.  In this role, you will play an integral technical role on multidisciplinary teams to deliver highly visible, impactful public infrastructure projects across the state, region, and country. You will have the opportunity to manage staff, deliver projects, and pursue opportunities with new and existing clients.

Providing leadership through mentoring, directing, and delegating staff is a key component of the role as is maintaining focus on the execution of HDR's growth strategy. You will interface with regional and national technical leaders to advance local capabilities and may support national pursuits and project delivery efforts related to your expertise. A candidate who engages in industry groups and has a leadership role in such organizations, including committee participation and regular submission of conference abstracts/presentations, will excel in this role.

We are committed to promoting employees' physical and mental wellness and well-being and delivering meaningful employee experiences. Whether you are interested in advancing your technical skillset, business development, or project management, we provide endless growth and training opportunities that match your skillset and interest.

Primary Responsibilities:

Technical Excellence

• Participate in project delivery from planning, design, through construction phases to meet client expectations

• Serve as a project manager or design manager and lead critical area and regional projects

• Oversee coordination, monitoring, and improvement of technical competencies of business class staff and deliverables

• Use proactive project management to verify that all work is planned, organized, controlled, and delivered

• Collaborate on business class efforts with area operations, marketing, project managers, and project delivery staff

• Develop and lead technical and marketing initiatives

• 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

Staff Development

• Recruit, hire, train, develop, and manage technical personnel

• Manage and develop multidisciplinary teams, including monitoring utilization, morale, quality control, and marketing support

• A commitment to promoting employees' physical and mental wellness and well-being and delivering meaningful employee experiences

• Support development of technical experts

• Implement, monitor, and support company policy

• Supervise engineers and junior staff (assumed in the 2-6 person range)

Business Development

• Actively participate in marketing planning, proposals, and interviews

• Lead business class strategic planning, budgeting, and plan implementation

• Drive area initiatives related to water treatment

• Collaborate with water treatment business class leads and water treatment experts across the country

In the role of Area Business Class Leader, we'll count on you to:

• Take responsibility for area coordination, monitoring and improvement of technical competencies of business class staff and products to meet client needs and market drivers, all within direction and goals of business class plans

• Participate in delivery of project services to meet client expectations

• Collaborate on business class efforts with area operations, marketing and project management

• 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

• Participate in business class strategic planning, budgeting and plan implementation

• Perform other duties as needed

Preferred Qualifications

• Actively engaged in professional or industry associations to enhance HDR technical expertise and brand both locally (e.g. MN-AWWA, WI-AWWA, MN Rural Water Association, WI Rural Water Association) and nationally

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a Professional, Architecture, Engineering or closely related field

• 10 years of experience

• Committed to quality, improvement and HDR values

• 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

What We Believe

HDR is our company. Together, we build on each other's life experiences and perspectives to make great things possible every day. This shapes our collaborative culture, encourages organizational trust and connects us closer to the clients and communities we serve.

Our Commitment

As employee owners, we all have a role in creating an inclusive environment where each of us is welcomed, valued, respected and empowered to bring our authentic selves to work every day.

Our eight Employee Network Groups (Asian Pacific, Black, Hispanic/Latino(a), LGBTQ , People with Disabilities, Veterans, Women, Young Professionals) help create a sense of belonging and foster a supportive environment where everyone is empowered to engage and contribute. Each group has an executive sponsor and is open to all employees.