National Substation Physical Design Sub-Business Class Leader

National Substation Physical Design Sub-Business Class Leader

HDR Engineering is looking for a national Substation Physical Design Sub-Business Class Leader. This position will directly report to the corresponding Area Operations Leadership and has a dashed reporting line to the national Substation Business Class Lead. The role focuses on protection and control design matters within the power delivery substation business class and will help shape how electricity is generated, transmitted, and delivered as global energy demands grow.

• Drive development and implementation of a quality program within the business class to foster physical design technical growth for junior engineers.
• Drive development and implementation of a physical design training and career development program for the national business class.
• Quarterly training and meetings with EITs and junior engineers to discuss overall issues, success, project experience, and lessons learned.
• Encourage technical career paths.
• Develop and maintain technical practices, standards, and expectations to accomplish market sector visions and solve client problems. Support the technical development within the Business Class that drives marketing and commercial success.
• Maintain a world-class understanding of Physical Design issues and current professional-practice approaches, and package HDR design expertise as client solutions within the appropriate consulting context.
• Develop a network of technical experts and SMEs to help drive technical goals for our national practice and business class.
• Support open communication of current and projected production needs through the Business Class organization; collaborate with the BCL to influence staffing and expertise levels.
• Support the professional development of staff and the development of production tools, including Best Practices, Technical Policies & Procedures, Papers & Presentations, Professional Associates credentialing, recognition of technical achievement, Practice Group activities, and Information Management and Automation Tools.
• Lead proposal technical reviews (e.g., Blue Team Reviews).
• Participate in root‑cause analysis and provide solutions for challenging project issues.
• Participate in and may lead PARRs (Project Approach Resource Review).
• Achieve a 70%–75% utilization goal by supporting projects.

• Active participation in ongoing technical working groups (internally and externally).
• Subject matter expert or strong knowledge of a variety of physical/outdoor design concepts.

• Constructability and design criteria.
• Bus span calculations.
• AC and DC sizing and loading.
• Raceway design.
• Cable design.
• Material selection.
• BOM development.
• Grounding design.
• Lightning protection design.
• Substation lighting design.
• Major substation equipment specification development.
• Experience designing and/or reviewing general arrangements, cross‑sectional arrangements, substation clearance checks, grounding packages, lightning protection studies (rolling sphere and fixed angle), lighting studies, raceway systems, cable design, rigid and strain bus design, insulator and arrester selection.
• Experience mentoring and coordinating physical design workshare with multiple area offices.
• Strong knowledge of best practices, industry standards, and codes related to substation outdoor/physical design.
• General knowledge of substation design software such as CDEGS, WinIGS, etc.

• Bachelor’s degree in a professional, architecture, engineering, or closely related field.
• 10 years of experience.
• Committed to quality, improvement, and HDR values.
• Maintains a professional or engineering registration and has related technical experience.
• Experienced in development and management of diverse teams.
• Works cooperatively with other area business class leaders, operations managers, technical directors, and marketing managers on business class efforts.
• Attitude and commitment to being an active participant in our employee‑owned culture.

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