Area Environmental Science & Planning Business Class Leader

Area Environmental Science & Planning 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 foster a culture of inclusion throughout our company and within our communities, we constantly ask ourselves:
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• Provide area leadership of technical capabilities within the Environmental Science & Planning Business Class
• Manage project staffing/resourcing, workload, and resource balancing and BC utilization in coordination with Project Managers (PMs) and the Area Transportation Manager
• Coordinate across Business Groups within the area as well as outside the area as necessary
• Focus on Quality, technical delivery; consult with and provide input on project discipline requirements
• Lead, manage, and staff
• Maintain appropriate QA/QC procedures and best practices
• Monitor area performance within BC to achieve defined goals and support operational managers in monitoring project performance and implementation of corrective actions
• Responsible for the technical sector growth in the Area
• Support top line growth across all market sectors in their technical area of focus
• Prioritize BC activities across Arizona and New Mexico to best implement Market Sector and Business Group objectives and promote technical services of their section in the Area
• Facilitate BC teamwork, communication, and work sharing between Area offices, business classes, management, marketing, and staff
• Serve as client manager, project principal and/or PM
• Actively participate in projects or manage projects to meet assigned utilization rate
• Serve as a senior technical resource on projects and programs
• Build and retain strong relationships with staff, PMs, and Client Development Managers throughout the Area and within HDR’s Southwest Region
• Provide strategic and tactical input on BC-related business trends and local office planning
• Manage staff workloads and make recommendations for adjustments and recruitments as needed
• Manage training and licensing requirements and identify opportunities for continuing education
• Develop a technical mentoring and employee advancement process to advance staff
• Champion marketing opportunities to grow the practice
• Support Area pursuits and actively participate in proposal development
• Identify project needs and recruit professionals to join our HDR team
• Demonstrate "can-do" problem solver approach to colleagues and clients
• Ability to build positive internal and external client relationships, with strong communication, negotiation and presentation skills, and to manage and motivate direct reports

• Bachelor's Degree in Environmental Science, Environmental Planning, or closely related field
• Minimum of 10 years' experience leading transportation projects and teams within this market
• Proven ability to manage Environmental Science & Planning projects and teams effectively
• Demonstrated ability to manage a large Environmental Science & Planning program and staff working statewide in multiple offices
• Experience managing budgets, preparing scopes and developing cost estimates
• Must have experience effectively managing and motivating direct reports
• Excellent written and verbal communication and listening skills
• Strong attention to detail
• Strong leadership and organizational, planning, and prioritization skills
• Ability to work efficiently and effectively under tight deadlines, as well as balance multiple projects by prioritizing effectively
• Ability to understand applicable laws, policies and procedures that each project is governed by
• Ability to build, effective implement and manage training programs; workload and staffing plans; marketing plans and proposal preparation and business group budgets
• Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills
• Pri…