Structural Business Class Lead

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?

Each and every role throughout our organization makes a difference in our ability to change the world for the better. Read further to learn how you could help make great things possible not only in your community, but around 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 Structural Business Class Lead to join our Building Engineering Services (BES) Business Group in Walnut Creek or Folsom, CA. Business Class Leads are leaders in the practice who influence culture, morale, and recruiting as well as provide leadership in the pursuit and delivery of work. A Business Class Lead not only has deep engineering expertise in their discipline, but they understand how cross‑discipline teams function.

They couple that understanding with leadership abilities to positively impact the success of the business. The behaviors represented by Business Class Leads are indicative to our staff, clients, and recruits of the behaviors and characteristics HDR rewards.

• Take responsibility for area coordination, monitoring and improvement of technical competencies of area structural business class staff and products to meet clients needs and market drivers, all within direction and goals of business class plans.

• Participate in structural business class strategic planning, budgeting and plan implementation.

• Collaborate on structural business class efforts with area operations, marketing and project management.

• Participate in structural 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.

• Participate in delivery of Project services to meet client expectations.

• Implement, monitor, and support company policy.

• Maintain outward facing exposure, promoting the HDR brand in the industry through networking and participation in Professional organizations.

• Establish client relations and be involved with marketing and client development activities.

• Monitor change in codes, relations, and client standards and keep staff up to date on current industry practices.

• Manage and be responsible for the technical and operational activities of the area structural business class.

• Schedule and coordinate all work performed inside the business class.

• Establish work priorities and assignments for staff.

• Monitor scope of work and scope changes within the business class.

• Conduct interviews in support of the hiring of new staff for the business class and provide new employee mentoring.

• Advance the skill level of personnel through training, education, experience, etc.

• Plan, direct and monitor all structural aspects of large multidiscipline projects or medium-sized projects with high degree of technical complexity, typically…