Michigan Area Business Class Leader

Michigan Area Business Class Leader

bJob Overview

At HDR, employees are fully engaged in creating a welcoming environment where each of us is valued, respected, and empowered to bring authentic selves and novel ideas to work every day. Diversity, equity, and inclusion are woven into our culture, and we continuously ask: "What is our impact on the world?"

The Michigan Area Business Class Leader is responsible for the overall vision, strategy, and execution of building and growing a Michigan wastewater team. The role includes supervising staff, managing projects, producing project deliverables, and handling business‑development responsibilities.

• Plan and design wastewater and hydraulic design elements, including wastewater treatment facilities, collection and interceptor sewers, wastewater pumping, and system master plans.
• Lead staff development: recruit, select, train, develop, and manage technical personnel; supervise engineers and junior staff (2–6 person team).
• Provide operational leadership of the production section, ensuring utilization, morale, quality control, and marketing support.
• Implement, monitor, and support company policy.
• Deliver project services through planning, design, and construction phases to meet client expectations, including project management.
• Take responsibility for area coordination and improve technical competencies of business‑class staff and products.
• Collaborate with other wastewater treatment business‑class leads, marketing, operations, and project teams regionally and nationally.
• Support development of technical experts and participate in business‑class practice and professional discipline groups.
• Conduct quality assurance and quality control reviews where appropriate.
• Engage in marketing planning, proposals, interviews, strategic planning, budgeting, and plan implementation.
• Drive area initiatives that align with the business class and meet company objectives.
• Perform other duties as needed.

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering (civil, environmental, hydraulics) or a related field; master's degree is a plus.
• Michigan Registered Professional Engineer License (PE).
• Proven client and business‑development success in Michigan.
• Experience in conceptual, preliminary, and final design of wastewater collection, conveyance, and treatment infrastructure.
• Experience with process and hydraulic design and design software.
• Knowledge of Michigan water‑quality regulations and Total Maximum Daily Load programs.

• Bachelor's degree in a professional, architectural, engineering, or closely related field.
• 10 years of experience in the field.
• Committed to quality, improvement, and HDR values.
• Maintenance of professional or engineering registration with related technical experience.
• Experience in developing and managing diverse teams.
• Cooperative collaboration with other area business‑class leaders, operations managers, technical directors, and marketing managers.
• Demonstrated commitment to being an active participant of our employee‑owned culture.

United States
• Michigan
• Lansing

United States
• Michigan
• Ann Arbor

Water

Full‑time

Regular

WW Treatment and Effluent Mgmt

Jan 8, 2026

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