Position Overview The Building Engineering Services Business Group (BES) Construction Field Services (CFS) Lead provides leadership, strategy, and operational direction for BES's North American CFS program, with a focus on the Tech, Media, Telecom (TMT) market sector. Reporting to the BES Professional Services Director, this role is responsible for scaling and operationalizing a North American CFS program, driving consistent delivery, profitable growth, and technical excellence in delivery of Construction Administration (CA) and Construction Management (CM) services. This position serves as a central integrator across the HDR matrix, aligning operations, professional services, market sectors, and business development to deliver a world-class CFS offering.
Key ResponsibilitiesStrategic Leadership & Program Growth- Define and lead the long-term vision and growth strategy for BES CFS, aligned with BES and corporate objectives.
- Drive expansion toward a scaled, Data Center focused market sector CFS business through targeted market positioning and strategic pursuits.
- Partner with market sector, regional, area and technical leadership to identify and capture large, programmatic opportunities
Strategy Execution & Operationalization- Operationalize and refine the BES CFS Strategic Plan, translating initiatives into executable programs, KPIs, and performance metrics.
- Align market sector, professional services, and operations leadership to deliver consistent execution across regions.
- Drive implementation of enterprise initiatives in alignment with BES priorities
Standardization & Delivery Excellence- Support professional services in establishing and maintaining standardized processes, procedures, and delivery frameworks across CFS.
- Support professional services in codifying and deploying best practices, tools, templates, and lessons learned to ensure consistent, high-quality delivery.
- Promote continuous improvement, innovation, and digital delivery across the CFS program
Financial Performance & Commercial Strategy- In collaboration with operations, drive overall CFS financial performance, including net fees booked, net fees earned, profitability, utilization, and growth metrics.
- Lead development of CFS pricing strategies, including overhead structures and markups, to support competitive positioning.
- Partner with operations to optimize staffing models (HDR staff vs. contingent workers) via informed, data-driven decisions.
Operations Integration & Resource Management- Collaborate with regional directors to align staffing, workload, and delivery capacity.
- Support area based growth strategies and resource planning across the matrix organization.
- Drive consistent approaches to project staffing, utilization, and workshare.
Leadership & Talent Development- Lead and develop the CFS leadership team, including the Practice Lead (PL) and Business Class Lead (BCL) functions.
- Establish clear accountability between strategy/growth (PL) and technical delivery (BCL).
- Promote career development, succession planning, and workforce growth across PMs, CMs, and field staff.
Technical Excellence & Risk Management- Drive a culture of safety as a top priority in our CFS program.
- Partner with BES safety, health and environmental (SH&E) lead(s) to identify and mitigate CFS SH&E risks.
- Partner with professional services leadership to verify technical quality, QA/QC, and standards compliance.
- Oversee risk management practices, including project reviews, delivery oversight, and issue resolution.
- Drive consistency in technical execution across market sectors and geographies
Cross-Matrix Collaboration- Serve as the primary connector across CFS capabilities company wide, market sectors, professional services, and operations.
- Collaborate with peer Service Line Directors (Program Management, Alternative Delivery, Advisory Services) to advance project lifecycle delivery.
- Lead enterprise-level coordination to maximize HDR's competitive advantage.
Leadership Profile- Enterprise Influencer: Proven ability to lead and influence across a complex, matrixed organization.
- Strategic Executor: Demonstrated success translating strategy into scalable, operational programs.
- Commercial Acumen: Deep expertise in construction services pricing, including overhead structures and markups.
- Growth-Oriented Leader: Track record of building and scaling construction or field services programs.
- Technical Credibility: Recognized leader in construction administration, construction management and field services delivery.
- Collaborative Leader: Strong partnership mindset across market sectors, operations, and professional services.
- People Developer: Committed to mentoring, leadership development, and building high-performing teams.
- Entrepreneurial Mindset: Self-starter with strong initiative and focus on continuous improvement.
Preferred Qualifications- A strong understanding of overhead structuring, specifically within the CFS industry.
- Certified Construction Manager (CCM)
- Experience with estimating software, scheduling software, project management software and web-based collaboration software for the exchange of documents.
- Experience performing CFS, CM, and CA services for large scale data centers, including hyperscale and colocation facilities greater than 100MW total capacity.
Required Qualifications- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management, Construction Science or closely related field or equivalent work experience.
- A minimum of 10 years of experience in various aspects of construction planning and management, including but not limited to construction contracts; document, time, cost, and quality management; change management; and site safety. estimating, bidding, preparing and administering purchase orders and subcontracts, scheduling, cost control, etc.
- Experience with construction management software such as Procore, Prolog, Primavera, Bluebeam, etc.
- Must have strong people skills and the ability to interact with the Owner, Engineer, Contractor and other project stakeholders
- An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee-owned culture is a mustSponsorship (visa) for US employment authorization is not available now or in the future for this position.
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QualificationsRequired Qualifications - Bachelor's degree in a Professional, Architecture, Engineering or closely related field
- A minimum of 10 years of experience in related field
- For Business Class leadership roles for which the core service being overseen is technical design, the role must maintain a professional or Architecture/Engineering registration and has related technical experience
- Experienced in development and management of diverse teams
- Works cooperatively with other business class directors, operations managers, technical directors and marketing managers on business class efforts
- Committed to quality, improvement and HDR values
- An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee-owned culture is a must
