Fire & Safety Transportation Practice Lead

Fire & Life Safety Transportation Practice Lead - ( 185276 )

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HDR’s Fire & Life Safety (FLS) team provides essential consulting and design expertise across a variety of sectors, with a strategic emphasis on transportation infrastructure. Our portfolio includes highways, roads, tunnels, transit systems, freight rail, aviation, maritime, and more. As demand for our services continues to grow, we are seeking a Senior Fire & Life Safety Engineer to lead and expand our transportation-focused FLS practice.

In this role, you will serve as a senior consultant and technical lead for the design, optimization, and construction administration of Ventilation and Fire & Life Safety systems for complex infrastructure projects. These projects include transit and highway tunnels, overbuilds, utility corridors, and industrial, commercial, and process facilities. You will collaborate with FLS leads across HDR, supporting internal teams and external clients, while managing both standalone FLS projects and contributing to interdisciplinary efforts.

Your expertise will help advance our design capabilities and support the growth of our tunnel ventilation and underground engineering practice.

You will also play a key role in mentoring junior engineers, supporting business development initiatives, and contributing to pursuit and proposal strategies. Working alongside HDR’s FLS Director, you will help build and lead a team of transportation-focused FLS professionals. This position is ideal for a self-motivated, technically strong leader who values collaboration, team development, and the opportunity to make a lasting impact within a top-tier, employee-owned A/E firm.

The Team:

You’ll join HDR’s rapidly growing FLS team, a collaborative group of professionals providing integrated support on complex projects across the U.S. and globally. Our specialists work closely with architects, engineers, planners, and clients to deliver innovative, code-compliant, and performance-based fire and life safety solutions across the transportation industry and other market sectors.

HDR maintains a global presence with more than 200 offices worldwide. While we prefer this position to be based in the New York / New Jersey area to support key regional and national projects, we are open to other office locations for highly qualified candidates, particularly those with tunnel ventilation or transportation expertise.

As part of our team, you will thrive in a supportive, growth-focused environment that encourages knowledge sharing, mentorship, and professional development. You will also have the opportunity to help shape the future of HDR’s FLS transportation practice on a national and global scale.

Success in this role will require the ability to:

• Know your strengths, foster relationships, and be a proactive communicator.
• Share our desire to grow our FLS team globally.
• Collaborate in a Team environment with a positive and helpful attitude.
• Be highly motivated, constantly seek improvement in how we do things, and be willing to take on new challenges.
• Be able to manage multiple projects immediately, including developing proposals, project planning, staffing, and successful delivery of projects through independent work and engaging other FLS teammates.
• Cultivate good working relationships with project managers, project teams, FLS teammates, and other clients as we grow our team.
• Effectively network with other fire and life safety industry professionals.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead technical design and optimization for ventilation and fire/life…