West Region Alternative Delivery Lead

Overview

West Region Alternative Delivery Lead within HDR's Power Sector, Power Delivery Practice. The role is part of HDR’s national Alternative Delivery (AD) Leadership Team and involves all aspects of HDR's power delivery AD program, focusing on mitigating engineering risks and driving collaboration between HDR’s global power delivery staff and construction teaming partners.

HDR is an employee-owned company committed to inclusion and delivering impact in communities. This role supports the delivery of AD projects across electric transmission, substation, distribution, and renewables markets.

• In collaboration with the Power Sector AD Director, provide leadership and responsibility for elevating the power delivery AD program within HDR’s West Region (including AK, WA, OR, , MT, CA, NV, UT, AZ, NM, HI).
• Partner with business development, operations and technical leadership to develop new opportunities, markets and staffing plans.
• Drive teaming agreement negotiations with potential construction partners in coordination with AD Director, operations and legal counsel.
• Lead development of a power delivery FEED team to evaluate and mitigate technical risk of AD opportunities before and during Go/No-Go decisions; FEED team may include substation (physical and electrical), transmission structural/foundation, distribution and site civil practitioners.
• In collaboration with technical teams, review AD project intel, opportunities and RFPs to estimate technical investments prior to Go/No-Go discussions.
• Assist in Go/No-Go discussions, project risk assessments, SOQs, proposals, interviews, and negotiations as required.
• Work with pursuit teams to develop scope, schedule, and budget, focusing on activities and risks unique to AD (e.g., procurement, construction support, 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 services for power delivery AD projects.
• Drive development of AD project teams, including project managers, technical leaders, project controls and commercial managers, with specific skillsets identified with the AD leadership team.
• Act as a senior advisor during AD project execution, providing project delivery support including contract administration and management.
• Serve as the Project Manager or Engineering Manager on select power delivery projects, including both AD and traditional design-bid-build delivery.
• Provide Oversight of a production section including project delivery, staffing, recruiting, quality, utilization, workload forecasting, work-sharing, safety and morale.
• Mentor and develop other employees.
• Perform other duties as needed.
• Report to Power Sector Alternative Delivery Director.

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

• Bachelor's degree in related field
• 10 years related experience
• Minimum of 5 years of project management experience
• Familiar with Microsoft Office, estimating and scheduling software, project management software
• Ability to interact with various design teams, with excellent organizational, project management and…