West Region Alternative Delivery Lead

Overview

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HDR is seeking a West Region Alternative Delivery Lead within the Power Sector, Power Delivery Practice to be part of our national Alternative Delivery (AD) Leadership Team. AD includes designs 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 role involves planning, pursuing, managing, and delivering power delivery AD projects in the electric transmission, substation, distribution, and renewables (medium/high voltage) markets.

The successful candidate will drive collaboration between HDR’s global power delivery staff and construction partners, focusing on mitigating engineering risks in AD projects.

Primary responsibilities include:

• In collaboration with Power Sector AD Director, provide leadership and elevate the power delivery AD program within HDR’s West Region (including 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.
• Drive teaming agreement negotiations with potential construction partners in alignment with HDR’s goals and initiatives.
• Lead and drive development of a power delivery FEED team to evaluate and mitigate technical risk of AD opportunities prior to and during Go/No-Go evaluations. 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 before Go/No-Go.
• Assist in Go/No-Go discussions, project risk assessments, SOQs, proposals, interviews, and negotiations as required.
• Drive scope, schedule, and budget development with pursuit teams, focusing on AD-specific activities and risks (procurement, construction, critical path scheduling, etc.).
• Provide AD best practice guidance to pursuit and project delivery teams.
• Collaborate with 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 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.
• Serve as a senior advisor during AD project execution, providing project delivery support including contract administration and management.
• Act as Project Manager or Engineering Manager on select power delivery projects (AD and traditional delivery).
• Provide oversight of a production section 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Civil and/or Mechanical Engineering, Construction Management, or similar education/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.
• 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 Engineer licensure or DBIA certification is preferred.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in related field
• 10 years related experience
• Minimum of 5 years of…