Electrical Business Class Lead
About Us
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.
Primary Responsibilities
HDR is currently seeking an Electrical Business Class Lead to lead a team of engineers and designers with experience in complex architectural engineering projects across several market sectors such as Healthcare, Education, Science, Justice, and Technology. The position is in our Building Engineering Services Design Center in Minneapolis, MN. The Building Engineering Services Design Center is a full service, multi-disciplinary team including mechanical, electrical, structural and civil engineers that is co-located with our Architecture Practice to support a collaborative and fully integrated design process.
In the role of Electrical Business Class Lead, we'll count on you to:
- Establish client relations and be involved with marketing and client development activities.
- Manage the technical and operational activities of the electrical discipline.
- Prepare/review project budgets and scopes for the electrical discipline and track budget status.
- Schedule and coordinate all work performed inside the discipline.
- Establish work priorities and project assignments for staff.
- Monitor scope of work and scope changes.
- Facilitate and encourage coordination with other discipline groups.
- Conduct interviews in support of the hiring of new staff for the section and provide new employee mentoring.
- Establish employee goals and conduct employee performance reviews.
- Schedule and conduct section meetings to discuss productivity, workload and quality control issues.
- Advance the skill level of personnel through training, education, experience, etc.
- Coordinate with the electrical discipline managers of other business group locations to review workload, project status, and staffing requirements.
- Prepare/review electrical engineering scope of work and budgets/estimates for proposals.
- Monitor changes in codes, regulations and client standards and keep staff up to date on current industry practices
- Implement any required changes into the electrical design standards, procedures, and deliverables.
- Perform quality control reviews.
- Serve as a Project Manager occasionally and/or Task Lead when applicable.
- Perform project engineer duties when required.
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- 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
- 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.
