Waste-to-Energy Senior Project Manager

The Waste-to-Energy (WTE) Senior Project Manager will be responsible for managing and delivering complex waste-to-energy, resource recovery, renewable energy, and solid waste infrastructure projects, with Tampa serving as the primary office location. The role will provide technical and project management leadership for facility assessments, owner's engineering services, feasibility studies, design, procurement, construction support, commissioning, outage support, equipment replacement projects, life extension programs, and other capital improvement initiatives at existing and developing WTE facilities. The successful candidate will be responsible for project scope, schedule, budget, quality, risk management, and client satisfaction while leading multidisciplinary teams and supporting project delivery across HDR's national WTE portfolio. In addition, the position will work closely with the WTE Practice Leader, Waste Market Sector leadership, Business Class Directors, and Practice Leaders to support strategic growth initiatives, resource planning, staff development, technical standards, business strategy implementation, and cross-office collaboration, while contributing to business development, mentoring staff, and advancing HDR's Waste-to-Energy Practice nationwide. Specific activities include the following: - Serve as Project Manager for WTE, resource recovery, waste conversion, renewable energy, and solid waste infrastructure projects. - Lead project planning, scope development, budgeting, scheduling, risk management, and overall project execution. - Manage multidisciplinary engineering and consulting teams to meet project objectives and quality requirements - Act as a primary client contact and develop trusted relationships with public and private sector clients. - Support business development efforts through client engagement, conference participation, proposal development, interviews, and project pursuit activities. - Lead preparation and negotiation of scopes of work, project budgets, contract amendments, and professional service agreements. - Coordinate and oversee technical evaluations, feasibility studies, condition assessments, owner's engineering services, conceptual designs, detailed designs, procurement support, and construction-phase services. - Provide project leadership for existing WTE facilities related to operations optimization, asset management, equipment replacements, capacity expansions, outage planning, life extension programs, and capital improvement projects. - Support development and implementation of best practices, lessons learned, and technical standards across the WTE Practice. - Perform quality assurance and quality control reviews of project deliverables and ensure compliance with HDR quality management procedures. - Mentor and support the development of junior engineers, project managers, and technical staff. - Support recruiting, onboarding, and growth of WTE technical resources across HDR. - Maintain awareness of industry trends, emerging technologies, regulatory developments, and market opportunities related to waste conversion, energy recovery, decarbonization, resource recovery, and circular economy initiatives. - Coordinate with other HDR business groups including Power, Industrial, Environmental, Water, and Transportation to deliver integrated client solutions, as needed. - Support strategic initiatives and growth objectives for HDR's Waste-to-Energy Practice. - Travel as required to support project execution, client development, facility assessments, construction activities, and industry events. Preferred Qualifications: - Professional Engineer (PE) license preferred. - Minimum of 10 years of experience in waste-to-energy, resource recovery, power generation, industrial facilities, solid waste infrastructure, or related industries. - Demonstrated experience managing multidisciplinary engineering and consulting projects with responsibility for scope, schedule, budget, and client satisfaction. - Experience with mass-burn WTE facilities, RDF systems, resource recovery facilities, power generating facilities or related industrial processes preferred. - Experience supporting business development, strategic client management, proposal preparation, project pursuits, and contract negotiations. - Strong understanding of project delivery methods, construction processes, outage planning, equipment replacement projects, and capital improvement programs. - Excellent leadership, communication, client management, and team-building skills. - Ability to travel as required. Qualifications Required Qualifications - Bachelor's degree in related field or an equivalent combination of education and related professional experience - 10 years related experience - A minimum of 5 years of project management experience - Familiar with Microsoft Office, estimating and scheduling software, project management software - Must have the ability to interact with various design teams, have excellent organizational, project management and communication (both written and verbal) skills - An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee-owned culture is a must