Wastewater Market Leader

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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.

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.

Primary Responsibilities
-HDR has an excellent career opportunity for an experienced professional to join our Colorado Area Water Business Group (WBG) leadership team. Our Area Wastewater Market Sector Leader will focus on leading growth and development in the wastewater market in Colorado, including wastewater treatment and effluent management, pump stations and pipelines, biosolids, and one water collaboration.

Primary responsibilities include advancing business development strategies, developing and pursuing new clients and projects, client management, project management for key projects, technical input on projects, and staff development. The selected candidate will have developed good writing, presenting, and speaking skills, as they will work directly with clients and staff. Responsibilities also include collaborating with other technical and marketing staff in the pursuit of new projects, taking a leadership role in selected key pursuits, and serving as client manager for key clients, providing leadership in addressing client issues and coordination of multiple projects.

Wastewater Market Sector
- Within the Water Business Group, the Wastewater Market Sector is a highly technical and diversified sector.

This reflects that this service offering routinely works for local municipalities, private entities, water utilities, Federal, regional, and local governments, and similar clients in each of the 50 US states and in  2024 Engineering News Record ranked HDR sixth in size of business in the important water supply and treatment category.

We have nearly 335 employees in this Market Sector spanning the range of services from utility master planning; strategic advisory services, transmission and distribution, water supply management water treatment and reuse; construction management and inspection; andasset management and operations assistance.

The Wastewater Market Sectoris comprised of a multi-layer organization to drive business and client development while at the same time defining and implementing strategic Wastewater initiatives for growth, coordinating best practices and quality professional services, and projecting the HDR brand in the marketplace.

Specific attention is required to capture the potential of the wide spectrum of employees throughout the Region while at the same time developing and reinforcing the image of HDR with our clients and across the various Wastewater markets.

Business Development Responsibilities– The Area Wastewater Market Sector Lead will provide substantial support in assessing the Area’s marketplace and tailoring optimal technical business development tactics and strategies needed to capture new HDR clients, win and secure contracts and…