Distribution Planning Sub-Business Class Leader

HDR • Bismarck, ND

20h

About The Position

At HDR, employee-owners are engaged in creating a welcoming environment where everyone is valued and respected, empowered to bring authentic selves and novel ideas to work daily. The company fosters a culture of inclusion within the company and communities. As part of the Power sector, this role helps shape how electricity is generated, transmitted, and delivered as global energy demands grow. HDR's industry-recognized engineers and scientists have been at the forefront of grid transformation for over a century, working on projects from massive data centers to modernizing transmission systems. This position offers a chance to drive infrastructure forward, power innovation, and contribute to the energy future by working on reliable, resilient, and sustainable power systems. HDR Engineering is seeking a national Distribution Planning Sub-Business Class Leader. This role focuses on protection and control design matters within the power delivery substation business class. Professional Services, as the technical and consulting leadership element of the Resources Business Group, is responsible for creating a group of industry-recognized professional practitioners capable of solving client problems, executing quality professional services, and managing project delivery successfully. The Distribution Planning Sub-Business Class Leader provides subject-matter expertise, an industry-recognized reputation for professional accomplishment, and strong internal leadership within HDR, ensuring a company-wide, coordinated talent pool with the necessary technical profile to serve the client base and achieve commercial success.

Requirements

• 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

Nice To Haves

• Active participant in ongoing technical working groups (both internally and externally)
• Subject Matter Expert or strong knowledge of a variety of Distribution Planning concepts. Including but not limited to: Medium voltage load flows, Asset management, Condition assessment, Distribution design, Distribution construction techniques, Constructability and design criteria, Cable design, Material selection, BOM development, Lightning Protection Design, Major distribution equipment arrangements and operation

Responsibilities

• Drive development and implementation of a quality program within our business class to foster physical design technical growth for our junior engineers.
• Drive development and implementation of a physical design training and career development program for our national business class.
• Quarterly training / meetings with EITs and junior engineers across the practice to discuss overall issues, success, project experience, and lessons learned.
• Technical Career path encouragement.
• Creates and maintains the technical practices, standards and expectations to accomplish market sector visions, and solve client problems.
• Supports the technical development within the Business Class that drives marketing and commercial success.
• Possesses and maintains a world-class understanding of Distribution Planning issues and current professional-practice approaches; and has the ability to package HDR design expertise as client solutions within the appropriate “consulting” context.
• Includes the development and application of technical tools, standards and techniques to enhance service quality and efficiency.
• Ensures that technical staff are aware of and monitoring emerging technologies.
• Develop a network of technical experts / SME’s to help drive technical goals for our national practice / business class.
• Actively supports the open communication of current/projected production needs through the Business Class organization; collaborates with BCL to influence staffing and expertise levels.
• Supports the professional development of staff and the development of production tools: Best Practices, Technical Policies & Procedures, Papers & Presentations, Professional Associates credentialing, recognition of technical achievement, Practice Group activities, and Information Management and Automation Tools.
• Leads proposal technical reviews (i.e. Blue Team Reviews).
• Participates in root cause analysis and helps provide solutions for challenging project issues.
• Participates and may lead PARR’s (Project Approach Resource Review).
• Achieves a 65% to 70% utilization goal by supporting projects.

Benefits

• Employee-ownership culture
• Eight Employee Network Groups (Asian Pacific, Black, Hispanic/Latino(a), LGBTQ+, People with Disabilities, Veterans, Women, Young Professionals) to create a sense of belonging and foster a supportive environment

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees