NY​/NJ Highways Business Class Lead

Senior Level Professional Engineer - NY/NJ Highway Business Class Lead

HDR seeks an experienced professional to lead highway design services for projects across the New York/New Jersey area and the broader Northeast. The candidate will set strategic vision, supervise staff, manage complex projects, support business development, and uphold the HDR culture of quality and innovation.

• Provide technical and client leadership for highway design projects, mentor staff, and oversee project technical aspects.
• Act as senior QA/QC, ensuring engagement and successful delivery.
• Function as Project Manager, taking responsibility for production, delivery of services, and client expectations.
• Attract, develop and retain staff; promote knowledge management and best practices.
• Develop and maintain production tools, technical policies, best practices, and automation.
• Advocate for professional and ethical standards, serving as a role model.
• Perform other duties as required.

• Lead development of client-valued, market-driven technology approaches to grow market share.
• Maintain client relationships, focusing on HDR's highway design credentials.
• Develop long-term highway design practice strategic plan.
• Participate in business development activities as pursuit champion or proposal reviewer.
• Identify market opportunities and develop winning pursuit strategies.
• Build client relationships in collaboration with business development leaders and local staff.
• Represent HDR at state and national professional organizations.

• Bachelor's degree in Professional, Architecture, Engineering or closely related field.
• 10 years of relevant experience.
• Commitment to quality, continuous improvement, and HDR values.
• Professional or engineering registration and related technical experience.
• Experience in developing and managing diverse teams.
• Cooperation with area business class leaders, operations managers, technical directors and marketing managers on business class initiatives.
• Active participation in the employee-owned culture.

• 15 years of highway engineering experience, majority in NY/NJ region.
• Master's degree in engineering, planning or related field.
• Registered Professional Engineer in NY and NJ (or ability to attain within 3 months).
• Experience with NY/NJ clients (e.g., NYSDOT, NYSTA, NYCDOT, NJDOT, NJTA, PANYNJ).
• Experience in staff development, recruiting, mentoring, career path development.
• Active involvement with industry associations, visible profile.
• Ability to work efficiently under tight deadlines and handle multiple assignments.
• Experience preparing scopes of work, fee estimates, budgets, and financial reports.
• Experience delivering work on design-bid-build, design-build, owner's representative, and PMC.
• Experience building and managing training programs, resource planning, marketing plans, and proposal preparation.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proven contract development and capital improvement implementation.
• Experience overseeing projects >$5M and projects with construction value >= $50M.
• Preference for local candidates.

Primary:
United States
- New York, New York. Secondary:
United States
- New Jersey, Newark.

Schedule:

Full-time. Employee Status:
Regular.

Compensation: $185,063-$264,375 (NY, NY); $177,660-$253,800 (Newark, NJ). Benefits include medical, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, employee assistance program, paid leave, retirement savings plan, referral bonus, tuition reimbursement.