Alaska Water Resources Management Market Lead

Area Market Sector Leader – Water Business Group

In the role of Area Market Sector Leader, we expect you to:

• Recruit, select, train, develop, and manage technical personnel.
• Manage and develop multidisciplinary teams.
• Supervise senior engineers and business class leaders (assumed in the 2-8 person range).

• 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.
• See that all work is planned, organized, controlled and evaluated through proactive project management.
• 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.

• Implement, monitor, and support company policy.
• Take responsibility for operations including utilization, morale, quality control and marketing support.
• Take administrative responsibility for section staff and technical service functions, and lead and coordinate services with other sections.
• Take responsibility for area coordination, monitoring and improvement of technical competencies of business class staff and products.
• Collaborate on business class efforts with area operations, marketing, project managers, and project delivery staff.

• Drive vision and strategic planning for market sector disciplines.
• Be involved in marketing planning, proposals and interviews.
• Develop and lead technical and marketing initiatives.
• Be directly involved with industrial and public clients in marketing, project production and related issues.
• Work cooperatively with National Directors and marketing staff in local and national marketing and production efforts.

Additional

Primary Responsibilities:

Will require in-person participation in office on a weekly basis.

• 5+ years water resources leadership experience including staff supervisory experience.
• Professional registration or license.
• Strong communication and listening skills.
• Ability to handle multiple assignments.
• Good leadership and organizational skills.

• Bachelor's Degree in an engineering, planning or a related field.
• A minimum of 10 years of industry experience.
• Experienced in development and management of strategic marketing programs for planning and/or engineering services.
• Experienced in development and management of a wide range of client relationships and specific program and/or project pursuits.
• Experienced in overall staff development to include recruiting, career path and professional growth.
• Experienced with industry associations and maintains a visible profile in the market sector.
• Ability to work cooperatively with Regional Market Sector Directors, Market Sector Directors, Business Class Directors, Regional Business Group Directors, Area Business Group Managers, Area Marketing Managers and Area Managers.
• Demonstrated commitment to HDR values. An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee-owned culture is a must.

At HDR, we are committed to the principles of employment equity. We consider all qualified applicants, regardless of criminal histories, arrest and conviction records.