Water Quality and Regulatory Business Class Lead

Water Quality and Regulatory Business Class Lead - ( 196517 )

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?

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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.

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.

• Define and advance the organization’s water quality and regulatory strategy, aligning technical capabilities, investments, and market priorities with evolving regulations, watershed challenges, and client needs.
• Provide thought leadership on emerging water quality issues, including nutrient management, dissolved oxygen, harmful algal blooms, toxics, PFAS and other emerging contaminants, temperature, wet-weather impacts, water reuse, and climate-related changes in receiving waters.
• Promote watershed-based and One Water solutions that integrate wastewater, stormwater, drinking water, reuse, water resources, utility planning, and asset management to achieve measurable and affordable water quality outcomes.
• Build and connect a national network of technical specialists, while identifying capability gaps and guiding strategic recruiting, staff development, succession planning, applied research, and knowledge sharing.
• Strengthen project delivery and strategic pursuits by establishing consistent technical approaches, assembling multidisciplinary teams, supporting regulatory negotiations, managing technical risk, and translating complex science and policy into actionable client strategies.
• Elevate the organization’s market presence and influence through relationships with clients, regulators, research institutions, watershed organizations, and industry associations, as well as leadership in research, publications, conferences, and regulatory forums.

• Provide technical leadership for watershed and receiving-water quality assessments, including monitoring, source characterization, loading analyses, pollutant fate and transport, and evaluation of physical, chemical, and biological indicators.
• Direct watershed, hydrodynamic, and water quality modeling to evaluate nutrients, dissolved oxygen, temperature, toxics, pathogens, harmful algal blooms, emerging contaminants, and other water quality challenges.
• Lead development of regulatory strategies involving water quality standards, 303(d) listings, TMDLs, reasonable potential analyses, water quality-based effluent limits, mixing zones, variances, compliance schedules, integrated planning, adaptive…