West Region Alternative Delivery Lead

Overview

West Region Alternative Delivery Lead within HDR's Power Sector, Power Delivery Practice. This role is part of HDR’s national Alternative Delivery (AD) Leadership Team, focusing on collaborative delivery models such as Design-Build (DB)/Engineer-Procure-Construct (EPC), Progressive Design-Build (PDB), Construction Manager-General Contractor (CMGC)/Construction Manager at Risk (CMAR), and/or Integrated Project Delivery (IPD). The successful candidate will drive collaboration between HDR’s global power delivery staff and construction teaming partners, with emphasis on mitigating engineering risks associated with AD projects.

Primary duties include planning, pursuing, managing, and delivering all aspects of power delivery AD projects within electric transmission, substation, distribution, and renewables (medium/high voltage) markets.

• In collaboration with the Power Sector AD Director, provide leadership and accountability for elevating the power delivery AD program within HDR’s West Region, covering Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and Hawaii.
• Partner with business development, operations and technical leadership to develop new opportunities, markets and staffing plans.
• Coordinate with AD Director, operations and legal counsel to drive teaming agreement negotiations with potential construction partners aligned with HDR’s goals.
• Lead and drive development of a power delivery FEED (front-end engineering and design) team to evaluate and mitigate technical risk of AD opportunities prior to and during Go/No-Go decisions. The FEED team may include substation physical, substation electrical, transmission structural/foundation, distribution and/or site civil practitioners.
• Review AD project intel, opportunities and RFPs with technical teams to estimate technical investments prior to Go/No-Go discussions.
• Assist in Go/No-Go discussions, project risk assessments, SOQs, proposals, interviews, and negotiations as required.
• Work with pursuit teams to develop scope, schedule and budget, focusing on activities and risks unique to AD projects (e.g., procurement and construction support, critical path scheduling).
• Provide AD best practice guidance to pursuit and project delivery teams.
• Collaborate with HDR regional and area operations leaders, market sector leaders, practice leaders, project managers, commercial managers, and project teams to deliver high-quality engineering, environmental, real estate, geospatial and construction support services for power delivery AD projects.
• Drive development of AD project teams, including AD project managers, technical leaders, project controls and commercial managers, with roles identified in coordination with the AD leadership team.
• Act as a senior advisor during AD project execution, providing project delivery support including contract administration and management.
• Serve as Project Manager or Engineering Manager on select power delivery projects, including both AD and traditional design-bid-build delivery.
• Oversee production sections including project delivery, staffing, recruiting, quality, utilization, workload forecasting, work-sharing, safety and morale.
• Mentor and develop other employees.
• Perform other duties as needed.
• Report to Power Sector Alternative Delivery Director.

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Civil and/or Mechanical Engineering, Construction Management, or similar combination of education and experience.
• Minimum 15 years of power delivery experience.
• Minimum 5 years building and/or managing engineering teams on EPC projects.
• Strong leadership and project management experience with multiple remote teams preferred.
• Understanding of contractual risk and mitigation strategies in AD models.
• Proven experience managing projects, client relationships, proposal development, and business development.
• Self-starter with excellent writing and communication skills.
• Strong conceptual, organizational, problem solving, and collaboration skills.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office and conferencing platforms (Zoom, Web Ex, Teams, etc.).
• Position requires up to 30% travel.
• Professional…