West Region Alternative Delivery Lead

Overview

Join HDR as the West Region Alternative Delivery Lead in the Power Sector, Power Delivery Practice. This role is part of HDR’s national Alternative Delivery (AD) Leadership Team and focuses on driving collaboration between HDR’s global power delivery staff and construction partners, mitigating engineering risks in AD projects. The primary duties involve planning, pursuing, managing, and delivering power delivery AD projects across electric transmission, substation, distribution, and renewables markets.

• Provide leadership for elevating the power delivery AD program within HDR’s West Region (covering Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and Hawaii).
• Collaborate with business development, operations and technical leadership to develop new opportunities, markets and staffing plans.
• Drive teaming agreement negotiations with potential construction partners aligned with HDR’s goals.
• Lead development of a power delivery FEED team to evaluate and mitigate technical risk for AD opportunities, including potential FEED members from substation, transmission, distribution and site civil disciplines.
• Review AD project opportunities and RFPs with technical teams to estimate technical investments prior to Go/No-Go discussions.
• Support Go/No-Go discussions, project risk assessments, SOQs, proposals, interviews and negotiations as needed.
• Lead pursuit activities to develop scope, schedule and budget for AD projects, addressing procurement, construction support and critical path scheduling.
• Provide AD best practice guidance to pursuit and project delivery teams.
• Collaborate with HDR regional and area operations leaders, market sector leaders, practice leaders, project managers, commercial managers and project teams to deliver high-quality engineering, environmental, real estate, geospatial and construction support for AD projects.
• Develop AD project teams, including AD project managers, technical leaders, project controls and commercial managers.
• Act as a senior advisor during AD project execution, providing contract administration and project delivery support.
• Serve as Project Manager or Engineering Manager on select AD and traditional design-bid-build projects.
• Oversee production, staffing, recruiting, quality, utilization, workload forecasting, work-sharing and morale within the AD production environment.
• Mentor and develop other employees and perform other duties as needed.
• Report to the Power Sector Alternative Delivery Director.

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Civil and/or Mechanical Engineering, Construction Management, or a related field.
• Minimum 15 years of power delivery experience.
• Minimum 5 years of experience building and/or managing engineering teams on EPC projects.
• Strong leadership and project management experience with multiple remote teams.
• Understanding of contractual risk and mitigation in AD models.
• Proven experience managing projects, client relationships, proposals and business development.
• Self-starter with excellent writing and communication skills.
• Strong conceptual, organizational, problem-solving and collaboration skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and conferencing platforms (Zoom, Web Ex, Teams, etc.).
• Up to 30% travel.
• Professional Engineer licensure or DBIA certification is preferred.

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
• 10 years of related experience.
• A minimum of 5 years of project management experience.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Office, estimating and scheduling software and project management software.
• Ability to interact with various design teams and strong organizational, project management and communication skills.
• Active participation in HDR’s employee-owned culture is required.

HDR is committed to employment equity and is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. We foster an inclusive environment where employees are welcomed, valued, and empowered to bring their authentic selves to work every day. HDR supports employee ownership and offers a comprehensive benefits package aimed at promoting health, performance and success.