Area Geotechnical Business Class Leader

Position Overview

HDR is seeking a Geotechnical Business Class Lead for the AZ/NM area. The role involves leading the geotechnical practice, representing HDR’s geotechnical engineering to clients, and building relationships across business groups to promote technical excellence and strategic growth.

• Coordinate, monitor, and improve technical competencies of Geotechnical Business Class staff to meet project demands, client needs, and market drivers, in line with Geotechnical Business Class strategies.
• Select, train, mentor and manage geotechnical personnel.
• Promote the AZ/NM geotechnical practice and establish partnerships to advance innovative concepts and mitigate risks for the benefit of HDR and clients.
• Contribute to HDR's geotechnical practice and professional discipline groups, project teams, and activities to continually improve standards and best practices, and implement effective quality assurance and quality control reviews.
• Participate in geotechnical work strategic planning and implementation.
• Confirm geotechnical work is planned, organized, controlled, and evaluated through proactive project management systems.
• Drive continuous process refinement to increase technical competence, design efficiency, and product quality.
• Function as project manager or geotechnical task lead on projects as needed, and take responsibility for production on projects.
• Participate in project pursuits and develop marketing plans and proposals, including interviews, representing HDR to clients and coordinating pursuit activities.
• Work proactively and collaboratively with the HDR geotechnical national business class director to align strategies and proactively drive the geotechnical practice community.

• 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.

• Active, or ability to obtain within 6 months, PE registration in AZ and NM.
• Master of Science degree or higher in Engineering (Geotechnical/Geologic engineering) or equivalent level of experience.
• 10 or more years of progressive experience in advanced engineering projects leading geotechnical design efforts for public and private clients.
• Demonstrated ability to complete geotechnical investigations and analyses for foundations, embankments, slopes, excavation support and retaining structures for varied project types, including transportation clients.
• Hands‑on expertise with subsurface investigations, field/lab testing, foundation design, slope stability, settlement, and ground improvement.
• Experience with software such as SHAFT, LPILE, SETTLE3D, SLOPE/W, SEEP/W, Roc Science Programs, AASHTO MEPDG, GIS, and Civil 3D.
• Active participation in professional societies (ASCE, AEG, DFI, Geo Institute of ASCE).
• Excellent interpersonal skills, technical writing ability, and the drive to thrive in a collaborative, fast‑paced environment.
• Sufficient knowledge in soil mechanics to fully understand the technical elements and bring advanced concept solutions to bear.
• Experience with geotechnical engineering software and its use, to analyze static, dynamic, and seismic aspects of foundation design, slope stability, settlement evaluation, and earth retention design, including numerical modeling.

Location:

Phoenix, Arizona, USA.