Professional Services Lead, Transportation

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Company: HDR

Location: New Canada, NS B4V 4V5

Description:

At HDR, our employee-owners are fully engaged in creating a welcoming environment where each of us is valued and respected, a place where everyone is empowered to bring their authentic selves and novel ideas to work every day. As we work to weave diversity, equity, and inclusion into our work and foster a sense of belonging throughout the company and within our communities, we constantly ask ourselves: What is our impact on the world?

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Each and every role throughout our organization makes a difference in our ability to change the world for the better. Read further to learn how you could help make great things possible not only in your community, but around the world.

Leadership for Professional Services Lead at HDR in Canada consists of overseeing, coordinating, and directing the business classes who are responsible for project delivery excellence in their specialized discipline. This individual will be a key partner to the business group manager, market sector leads and department managers so that the team functions as a unit and that delivery teams are empowered, supported and that staff have career development opportunities. There are ten business classes in Canada Transportation including Highways, Planning, Traffic Engineering, Bridges & Structures, Program Management, Transit Engineering, Rail & Transit Systems, Transport Hydraulics, Construction Administration and Freight. This role will have a dotted line to the Cross Sector Business Class Leads to further develop BGX in Canada.

The Professional Services Leader will report to the Canadian Transportation Business Group manager. In addition, the Leader will be connected to Business Group Professional Services Directors around the company to maintain HDR's collaborative team environment. The Leader will function as Principal-in-Charge/Senior Project Manager/Quality Manager and take responsibility for production on projects in addition to operations and business development responsibilities, as necessary and appropriate. Direct reports include the Business Class leaders and technical staff.

Primary Responsibilities

  • Provide oversight to the engineering, planning and construction administration technical services across the transportation business group
  • Enhance and promote technical skills development
  • Contribute to workload leaders with technical staff assignment to projects
  • Quality program direction, in alliance with Canada Quality Lead, including staffing quality program assignments to projects, implementation of quality, standards and best practices across the operation
  • Leadership and participation in technical reviews, includes PARR participation
  • Technical learning path development and mentoring
  • Technical and digital delivery evolution
  • Execute HDR standard practices, procedures and approaches
  • Support overall strategy, development, and leadership for each Business Class
  • Advance HDRs technical industry presence at conferences and through external learning opportunities
Secondary Responsibilities
  • Input and leadership to pursuit strategies
  • Recruiting
  • Cross Business Group and Cross Sector Champion
  • Take an active role in communities, committees and advancing industry issues


Preferred Qualifications
  • A minimum of 15 years' experience.
  • Professional Engineer (P.Eng) license.
  • Excellent communication, leadership and organizational skills.
  • Knowledge of the local market.
  • Evidence of strategic thinking and a collaborative approach to problem solving
  • Excellent communication skills. Comfortable presenting to client executives and in front of a large audience in a public setting
  • Committed to quality, improvement and HDR values
  • Actively engaged in professional or industry associations to enhance HDR technical expertise and brand


Qualifications

Required Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in a Professional, Architecture, Engineering or closely related field.
  • A minimum of 10 years' experience.
  • Maintains a professional or engineering registration and has related technical experience.
  • Demonstrated experience with leading diverse teams. Committed to quality, improvement and HDR values.
  • Actively engaged in professional or industry associations to enhance HDR technical expertise and brand.
  • Ability to work cooperatively with regional and local office managers, other area business group directors, technical directors and marketing managers.
  • An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee-owned culture is a must.


What We Believe

HDR is our company. Together, we build on each other's life experiences and perspectives to make great things possible every day. This shapes our collaborative culture, encourages organizational trust and connects us closer to the clients and communities we serve.

Our Commitment

As employee owners, we all have a role in creating an inclusive environment where each of us is welcomed, valued, respected and empowered to bring our authentic selves to work every day.

Our eight Employee Network Groups (Asian Pacific, Black, Hispanic/Latino(a), LGBTQ+, People with Disabilities, Veterans, Women, Young Professionals) help create a sense of belonging and foster a supportive environment where everyone is empowered to engage and contribute. Each group has an executive sponsor and is open to all employees.

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