Drinking Water Treatment Business Class Lead

Drinking Water Treatment Business Class Lead – 189993

At HDR we are a 100% employee‑owned design–build professional services organization. HDR’s Washington Water Business Group is recognized across Washington for water infrastructure projects, including system planning, water quality, condition assessment, and drinking water treatment facilities. In the Drinking Water Treatment Business Class Lead position you will help shape how communities manage water for generations.

• Participate in project delivery from planning, design, through construction phases to meet client expectations.
• Serve as a project manager or design manager and lead critical area and regional projects.
• Oversee coordination, monitoring, and improvement of technical competencies of business‑class staff and deliverables.
• Use proactive project management to verify that all work is planned, organized, controlled, and delivered.
• Collaborate on business‑class efforts with area operations, marketing, project managers, and project delivery staff.
• Develop and lead technical and marketing initiatives.
• Participate in business‑class 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.
• Conduct quality assurance and quality control reviews where appropriate, or assist technical teams in finding appropriate reviewers.

• Recruit, hire, train, develop, and manage technical personnel.
• Manage and develop multidisciplinary teams, including monitoring utilization, morale, quality control, and marketing support.
• Support development of technical experts.
• Implement, monitor, and support company policy.
• Supervise engineers and junior staff (assumed in the 2–6 person range).

• Actively participate in marketing planning, proposals, and interviews.
• Lead business‑class strategic planning, budgeting, and plan implementation.
• Drive area initiatives related to water treatment.
• Collaborate with water treatment business‑class leads and water treatment experts across the country.

• Master's degree is a plus.
• Active engagement in professional or industry organizations to enhance HDR technical expertise and brand both locally (e.g., PNWS AWWA, PNCWA) and nationally (e.g., WRF).
• Proven leadership and mentoring skills that are necessary to grow and lead a business group.

• 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 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.

At HDR, we are committed to the principles of employment equity. We are an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants, regardless of criminal histories, arrest and conviction records.

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