Senior Economist Consultant

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:
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In the role of Senior Economist Consultant, we’ll count on you to focus on three main responsibilities: technical, marketing, and staff development.

• Lead loss-of-life consequence analyses for dam and levee safety projects, including development of technical approaches, budget estimates, and project schedules
• Apply and advance methods for estimating potential life loss, warning effectiveness, evacuation success, and risk to life under a range of flood and failure scenarios
• Develop and refine industry-leading methods and procedures related to life-loss estimation, emergency management integration, and risk-informed decision making for internal and external clients
• Collaborate with emergency managers, dam and levee owners, and project teams to assess existing warning and evacuation practices and identify opportunities to reduce risk to life
• Support integrated risk analyses by coordinating consequence estimation with hydraulic, geotechnical, and risk assessment disciplines
• Lead or support project quality review efforts to ensure high-caliber, defensible work products
• Support HDR project managers and staff as needed on consequence estimation, risk analysis, and emergency management–related efforts

• Contribute to internal and external marketing efforts related to dam and levee safety, consequence estimation, and risk-informed decision making
• Support pursuits and proposals by developing technical approaches, scopes, and staffing strategies for life-loss and emergency management–focused work
• Strengthen client relationships by leading client meetings and independently presenting complex life-loss and risk concepts to technical and non-technical audiences
• Help market consequence and risk analysis consulting services internally through presentations, training, and knowledge-sharing efforts
• Support the evolution of service offerings related to life-loss reduction, emergency preparedness, and risk communication

• Provide support and mentorship to more junior staff through project task assignments and hands‑on technical guidance
• Help build staff capability in life-loss estimation, emergency management engagement, and risk analysis best practices

Support the development of internal tools, guidance, and workflows to improve consistency and efficiency across projects.

• Experience in conceptualizing and developing data to support economic life loss estimations
• Knowledge of USACE procedures for flood consequences and project benefit evaluation
• Knowledge of economic/econometric methods
• Experience with analytical packages and/or programming languages (ArcGIS, LifeSIm, HEC‑FIA, HEC‑SSP, Visual Basic, etc) and excellent knowledge of Microsoft Windows, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access

• Master's degree in Economics
• A minimum of 10 years experience including staff management and development, client interaction and proposal writing
• Experience in Excel, Limdep, SAS, SPSS, Eviews and MS Access
• VB programming experience is a plus
• Ability to interact with clients on a regular basis
• An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee‑owned culture is a must

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.

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