GIS Business Class Lead

HDR•Salt Lake City, UT

About The Position

HDR is seeking a GIS Business Class Lead for its Utah team to develop and implement geospatial solutions on projects throughout the state. The position works in a professional environment with GIS analysts, developers, and professionals across HDR’s business lines, collaborating with remote team members and people from a wide range of technical and non-technical backgrounds. The role leads GIS project and business-class activities, including technical delivery, staff and workload coordination, quality practices, strategic planning, and business growth. The GIS Business Class Lead works with area operations, marketing, project management, and other business-class leaders to meet client needs and market demands. HDR describes itself as an employee-owned company committed to an inclusive, collaborative culture in which employees are valued and empowered to contribute.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in a professional, architecture, engineering, or closely related field.
10 years of experience.
Expertise in spatial data analysis.
Proficiency with the ArcGIS platform.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to write reports summarizing spatial analyses and communicate findings with charts, tables, and narrative.
Ability to identify industry trends and determine where company capabilities can be marketed to existing and potential clients.
Demonstrated success leading staff and multidisciplinary teams and planning workloads.
Experience driving business growth through client engagement, pursuits, proposal development, strategic planning, and financial management.
Strong leadership, communication, relationship-building, and organizational skills, including the ability to influence diverse stakeholders and motivate teams.
Experience developing and managing diverse teams.
Ability to work cooperatively with other area business-class leaders, operations managers, technical directors, and marketing managers on business-class efforts.
Commitment to quality, improvement, HDR values, and active participation in the employee-owned culture.

Nice To Haves

Esri certification.
Microsoft 365 Apps proficiency.
GISP certification.
FME experience.
Other relevant professional certification.

Responsibilities

Lead GIS projects, including developing technical approaches, budgets, schedules, and quality assurance plans.
Perform spatial data analysis and communicate findings through reports, charts, tables, and narrative.
Identify industry trends and opportunities to market company capabilities to existing and potential clients.
Lead staff and multidisciplinary teams and plan workloads.
Drive business growth through client engagement, pursuits, proposal development, strategic planning, and financial management.
Coordinate the business-class area and monitor and improve staff technical competencies and products to meet client needs and market drivers, in alignment with business-class plans.
Participate in delivering project services to meet client expectations.
Collaborate on business-class efforts with area operations, marketing, and project management.
Participate in business-class practice and professional discipline groups, project teams, and activities to improve standards and best practices, and implement effective quality assurance and quality control reviews.
Participate in business-class strategic planning, budgeting, and plan implementation.
Perform other duties as needed.