National Substation Physical Design Sub-Business Class Leader

National Substation Physical Design Sub-Business Class Leader

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HDR is a leader in engineering, architecture, environmental and construction services. As part of our Power sector, you’ll help shape how electricity is generated, transmitted and delivered as global energy demands grow. From massive data centers to modernizing transmission systems, our engineers and scientists are at the forefront of grid transformation for more than a century. You’ll work side‑by‑side with these experts and contribute to reliable, resilient and sustainable power systems.

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HDR Engineering is looking for a national Substation Physical Design Sub-Business Class Leader. This position will directly report to corresponding Area Operations Leadership and have a dashed reporting line up to our national Substation Business Class Lead. The role focuses on the protection and control design matters within the power delivery substation business class.

The Substation Physical Design Sub-Business Class Leader provides subject‑matter expertise, an industry‑recognized reputation for professional accomplishment, and a strongly recognized internal reputation of leadership within HDR. The role supports the Substation Business Class with a company‑wide, coordinated talent pool, and right‑sized to allow commercial success.

• Drive development and implementation of a quality program within the business class to foster physical design technical growth for junior engineers.
• Drive development and implementation of a physical design training and career development program for the national business class.
• Quarterly training/meetings with EITs and junior engineers across the practice to discuss overall issues, success, project experience, and lessons learned.
• Encourage technical career paths.
• Create and maintain technical practices, standards and expectations to accomplish market sector visions, and solve client problems. Support technical development within the Business Class that drives marketing and commercial success. Possess and maintain a world‑class understanding of Physical Design issues and current professional‑practice approaches; package HDR design expertise as client solutions within the appropriate “consulting” context. Develop and apply technical tools, standards and techniques to enhance service quality and efficiency.
  
  Ensure that technical staff are aware of and monitoring emerging technologies.
• Develop a network of technical experts / SMEs to help drive technical goals for the national practice / business class.
• Actively support the open communication of current/projected production needs through the Business Class organization; collaborate with BCL to influence staffing and expertise levels.
• Support professional development of staff and the development of production tools:
  Best Practices, Technical Policies & Procedures, Papers & Presentations, Professional Associates credentialing, recognition of technical achievement, Practice Group activities, and Information Management and Automation Tools.
• Lead proposal technical reviews (i.e., Blue Team Reviews).
• Participate in root cause analysis and provide solutions for challenging project issues.
• Participate and may lead PARR’s (Project Approach Resource Review).
• Achieve a 70% to 75% utilization goal by supporting projects.

• Active participant in ongoing technical working groups (both internally and externally).
• Subject Matter Expert or strong knowledge of a variety of physical/outdoor design concepts, including but not limited to constructability and design criteria, bus span calculations, AC and DC sizing and loading, raceway design, cable design, material selection, BOM development, grounding design, lightning protection design, substation lighting design, major substation equipment specification development, and experience designing/reviewing general arrangements and related studies.
• Experience mentoring and coordinating physical design workshare with multiple area offices.
• Strong knowledge of best practices, industry standards, and codes…