Primary Responsibilities

HDR is currently seeking a Mechanical Business Class Lead to lead a team of engineers and designers with experience in complex engineering and architectural projects across several market sectors such as Healthcare, Technology, Education, Science, Justice, and Power, and Water Treatment. The position is in our growing Building Engineering Services design center in Houston, TX, aligned with our established, regional design centers in San Antonio and Dallas. . 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 and other practice groups to support a collaborative and fully integrated design process.

The primary duties of the Mechanical Business Class Lead are to provide the overall leadership to the team, identify growth opportunities through mentoring and training, coordinate the design work of mechanical engineers and designers working within a multi-disciplined, full service, A/E team throughout the entire project development, and create a collaborative and motivating team culture to promote design excellence across the practice. The responsibilities will also include being involved with supporting marketing and project pursuits, workplan development, quality control, recruiting, and team development. The individual must be highly motivated and will be the mechanical lead on multiple multi-disciplinary projects and may be called to manage projects that have a predominantly engineering focus.

The candidate will be:

• A proficient HVAC and plumbing system design engineer with experience designing to ASHRAE 90.1 and LEED requirements.
• An experienced engineer on multi-disciplined projects and a proficient writer with experience writing specifications, design narratives and supporting proposals.

In the role of Mechanical Business Class Lead, we'll count on you to:

• Take responsibility for operations of production section including staff development, profitability, morale, quality control and marketing support
• Take administrative responsibility for section staff and technical service functions, and lead and coordinate services with other sections
• Coordinate the work of mechanical engineers with the balance of a multidiscipline team throughout the entire project's development
• Function as Project Manager and take responsibility for production on projects in addition to management responsibilities
• Be involved in marketing planning, proposals and interviews
• Establish client relations, and participate in the marketing, design and production meetings with regard to mechanical systems
• Assume the mechanical lead on many projects
• Participate in reviews with various governing agencies for code compliance
• Conduct schematic, design development and contract document work sessions at the project site in conjunction with the project manager, project architect and other disciplines
• Coordinate workload through the entire project development to complete documents on schedule
• Track the financial aspects of projects, and coordinate and adjust the work effort with the team to ensure that the work is completed within the parameters of the agreed-upon schedule
• Work with the project manager and regional controller for project reviews with corporate management as needed
• Perform other duties as needed

Preferred Qualifications

• Preference given to local candidates
• Experience and interest in sustainable design including credentials in high performance building design similar to LEED
• Experience in design calculations, specifications, and preparations of construction drawings for corporate/commercial development, industrial, federal or mission critical projects.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• 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