LA​/MS Coastal Business Class Leader

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 work to weave diversity, equity, and inclusion into our work and foster a sense of belonging throughout the company and 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.

HDR has an excellent career opportunity in our Louisiana/Mississippi Area for a professional to lead our Coastal Restoration Business Class. We are looking for someone who will work in a collaborative manner with our local and national leadership to help grow the program with an emphasis on delivering quality services, client development, and market diversification.

In the role of Area Coastal Business Class Leader, we'll count on you to:

• Participate in delivery of project services through planning, design, and construction phases to meet client expectations
• Serve as Project Manager or Technical Lead on coastal restoration projects
• Support the development of and provide reviews of scopes of work, fee estimates, project risk identification and project schedules
• Assist with contract review on key projects to help ensure risk management, proper staffing, quality reviews and resolution of claims
• Conduct quality assurance and quality control reviews where appropriate or assist technical teams in finding appropriate reviewers
• Identity, develop, and implement coastal initiatives in the marketplace
• Collaborate with other technical and marketing staff in the pursuit of new projects, as well as taking a leadership role in selected key pursuits
• Serve as a client liaison to select agencies and clients
• Collaborate with our business class practice leaders and professional discipline groups regarding technical services and activities to continually improve standards and best practices, and to implement effective quality assurance and quality control reviews
• Serve as Subject Matter Expert for Regional, State, and Federal coordination
• Work with area leadership to identify technical gaps and support talent management and recruiting
• Mentor staff and support their development
• Take responsibility for area coordination, monitoring and improvement of technical competencies of business class staff and products to meet client needs and market drivers, all within direction and goals of business class plans
• Participate in business class practice and professional discipline groups, project teams and activities to continually improve standards and best practices
• Participate in area business class strategic planning, budgeting and plan implementation
• Perform other duties as needed

• Actively engaged in professional or industry associations to enhance HDR technical expertise and brand
• Ph.D, in related fields
• Management of coastal State and Federal Programs

• Bachelor's degree in a Professional, Architecture, Engineering or closely related field
• 10 years of experience
• Committed to quality, improvement and HDR values
• Maintains a professional or engineering registration and has related technical experience
• Experienced in development and management of diverse teams
• Works cooperatively with other area business class leaders, operations managers, technical directors and marketing managers on business class efforts
• 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.

As employee owners, we all have a role in creating an inclusive environment where each of us is welcomed, valued, respected and empowered to bring our authentic selves to work every day. Our eight Employee Network Groups (Asian Pacific, Black, Hispanic/Latino(a), LGBTQ+, People with Disabilities, Veterans, Women, Young Professionals) help create a sense of belonging and foster a supportive environment where everyone is empowered to engage and contribute.

Each group has an executive sponsor and is open to all employees.

Primary Location
:
United States-Louisiana-Lafayette

Other Locations
:
United States-Louisiana, United States-Louisiana-Baton Rouge, United States-Louisiana-Metairie

Industry
:
Water

Schedule
:
Full-time

Employee Status
:
Regular

Business Class
:
Coastal Engineering and Restoration

Job Posting
:
Aug 14, 2026