Data Center Assistant Project Manager

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?

We believe building engineering is more than systems and structures, it’s about powering progress and enabling innovation. As part of HDR’s Building Engineering Services Group, you’ll help design the critical infrastructure that supports the digital age and shapes the spaces where people work, connect, and thrive. From high-performance data centers driving the future of AI to dynamic commercial environments, your work will directly support technological advancement, sustainability, and human experience.

We bring together mechanical, electrical, structural, and civil engineering experts to solve complex design challenges with precision, creativity, and collaboration. Whether you're optimizing energy efficiency, integrating resilient systems, or engineering the backbone of next‑generation facilities, your contributions will help define the future of the built environment. This isn’t just a job, it’s a chance to lead innovation, engineer impact, and build a legacy of excellence.

HDR is looking for a Data Center Assistant Project Manager to join our Building Engineering Services team in Denver, Colorado. The role supports project managers in coordinating design teams and assisting with project delivery from initiation through completion. Responsibilities include coordinating and working closely with clients, architects, engineers, contractors, marketing members, and all other team members. The project manager will maintain client relationships and manage team members through all phases of the project from proposal/fee development, site feasibility reports, construction documents, and overall construction administration.

Passion, work ethic, self‑motivation, and strong leadership skills are a must to deliver technically excellent design solutions for our clients.

• Mentoring/Managing
  • Help grow a team that works together to create a collaborative environment that promotes career growth, the production of high‑quality construction documents, client satisfaction, and acts as a safety net for each other.
  • Coordinate the work of multidiscipline design teams.
  • Mentor, organize, and facilitate the growth of staff.
  • Coordinate workload through the entire project development to complete documents on schedule.
  • Mission Critical staff recruiting and retention.
• Marketing
  • Establish client relations, and participate in marketing, design, and production meetings.
  • Assist Marketing and Business Development groups in developing fee proposals and scope of work documents.
  • Promote HDR.
  • Collaborate on development strategies, new business prospects, technical services, quality, and production methods and standards, to achieve the established goals and objectives of the business group, region and company.
• Technical
  • Ensure product deliverables meet quality standards.
  • Manage and lead project teams to ensure successful project delivery and client satisfaction.
  • Control project quality, schedule, scope, and budget.
  • Forecasting, invoicing, and contract management.
  • Assist in creating vital proposal content including scope, schedule, and budget.
  • Assist HDR in interview preparation/presentations.
  • Work cooperatively with local office leads, other business groups, technical directors and marketing managers.
  • Coordinate staffing and workload through entire project life cycle.
  • Track financial aspects of projects, and coordinate and adjust work effort with team to ensure the work is completed within parameters of agreed‑to budget and schedule.
  • Implement QA/QC procedures.
  • Work with the Accounting, Operational and Business leadership for periodic project reviews.
  • Coordinate work and maintain relationship with subconsultants.
  • Perform other duties as needed.
• Travel
  • Some travel to job sites or other HDR offices may be required. This would be communicated in advance to give adequate…