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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?

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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.

HDR is seeking a strong leader to lead and support our Building Engineering team in Austin, TX in partnership with the Central Texas Area Building Engineering Services Business Group Manager. The Austin BES Lead will be primarily focused on the leadership, strategy, and growth of the office while overseeing and coordinating project delivery in the Austin office with an emphasis on supporting our business class leaders in the Area. This person will coordinate with the Central Texas BES Manager, the Market Sector Leads, and other BES Managers in other South Central Region areas as part of a management team to lead BES in the Central Region. Responsibilities will include:

• Supervising and mentoring section managers and key staff.
• Supporting hiring efforts through communicating and vetting hiring needs with section managers.
• Work closely with the Area BG Manager and Professional Service Leader to maintain staff workload forecasting data to ensure proper resource allocation
• Facilitating scope and fee input to project managers for proposals.
• Communicating with project managers to obtain scope/schedule/budget information and build a culture of cooperation.
• Building relationships and coordinating with internal clients and external BES Market Sector staff to support the pursuit and delivery of work.
• 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.
• Manage and lead project teams and programs to ensure successful project delivery and client satisfaction.
• Manage multi-disciplinary design teams from project conception to completion
• Control project budget, scope, and schedule
• Contract management/negotiations
• Create proposal content including scope, schedule and budget
• Participate in internal project reviews
• Work cooperatively with local office leads, other business group leads, technical directors and marketing managers.

Preferred Qualifications:

• BS in Engineering or Building Construction degree
• Minimum of 10 years experience in project and/or program management
• Committed to quality and improvement and promoting HDR's values
• Located in Austin or Round Rock and willing to be primarily working from the office

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Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in related field
• 10 years related experience
• A minimum of 5 years of project management experience
• Familiar with Microsoft Office, estimating and scheduling software, project management software
• Must have the ability to interact with various design teams, have excellent organizational, project management and communication (both written and verbal) skills
• An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee-owned culture is a must

What We Believe
HDR is our company. Together, we build on each other's life experiences and perspectives to make great things possible every day. This shapes our collaborative culture, encourages organizational trust and connects us closer to the clients and communities we serve.

Our Commitment
As employee owners, we all have a role in creating an inclusive environment where each of us is welcomed, valued, respected and empowered to bring our authentic selves to work every day.

Our eight Employee Network Groups (Asian Pacific, Black, Hispanic/Latino(a), LGBTQ+, People with Disabilities, Veterans, Women, Young Professionals) help create a sense of belonging and foster a supportive environment where everyone is empowered to engage and contribute. Each group has an executive sponsor and is open to all employees.

Primary Location: United States-Texas-Austin Other Locations: United States-Texas-Round Rock Industry: Building Engineering Schedule: Full-time Employee Status: Regular BusinessClass: Program Management Job Posting: May 2, 2025