Senior Utility Operations Consultant

Description 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:
What is our impact on the world?

Watch Our Story:' ' 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. Position Summary We believe that the way we work can add meaning and value to the world – that ideas inspire positive change, that small details yield important realizations, and that collaboration is the best way forward.

HDR has an excellent opportunity for an experienced professional to join our Water Business Group as a Senior Utility Operations Consultant within our Utility Management Services (UMS) Business Class. In this role, you will provide high-level operational consulting at all organizational levels within drinking water, wastewater, and potable reuse utilities. You will help clients solve their most challenging operational problems – improving process performance, reliability, compliance, asset stewardship, and operational work forces – while bringing an operations-informed perspective to facility planning and design.

You will be a key technical resource and trusted advisor, partnering with client development leaders, project managers, and design teams to deliver integrated solutions and grow HDR’s operations consulting practice. Primary Responsibilities In the role of Senior Utility Operations Consultant, we’ll count on you to:
Provide high-level operational consulting at all organizational levels within drinking water, wastewater, and potable reuse utilities – advising operators, supervisors, plant managers, and executive leadership. Lead operational troubleshooting to diagnose and resolve process upsets, equipment and performance issues, and reliability problems across treatment, transmission, and distribution systems. Drive operating process improvement – optimizing unit processes, standard operating procedures (SOPs), staffing and workflow, energy and chemical use, and overall operational efficiency.

Develop and implement asset management strategies and programs in partnership with HDR’s asset management teams, including asset inventories, criticality and condition assessment, remaining useful life, risk modeling, service-level objectives, and repair/renewal and reinvestment planning. Support regulatory compliance efforts across drinking water, wastewater, and reuse programs, helping clients maintain permit compliance and prepare for evolving requirements. Provide reuse operations expertise – advising on direct and indirect potable reuse operations, treatment reliability, monitoring, and regulatory frameworks for reuse to ensure our utility clients have the technical and managerial expertise to manage these systems and protect public health.  

Partnered with our drinking water and reuse process designers, perform design review from an operational perspective – evaluating water treatment and reuse facility planning and design for operability, maintainability, constructability, safety, and life-cycle cost, and translating operational insight into design recommendations. Serve as a key operations-focused resource as part of HDR’s growing Organizational Development practice to help our clients transfer knowledge from retiring water professionals and advance skills of existing operational professionals to overcome today’s workforce…