North America Building Engineering Services Project Management Director

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NA BES Project Management Director

The North American Building Engineering Services Project Management Director (PMD) will be responsible for representing and upholding HDR’s project management standards and processes, embodying the project management career path, and upholding HDR’s standards for project management excellence.  This includes the oversight, advancement, training, career development, and best practices of Project Managers. The PMD will collaborate with HDR’s Project Management Office, professional services, alternative delivery, market sectors, business development, and area and regional leadership to support the pursuit and delivery of projects, oversee project manager staffing, and track project management workload.

Responsibilities:

• Establish a community of practice that connects Project Managers and Program Delivery Managers, foster knowledge sharing, facilitates communication and collaboration, and strengthens the expertise and capabilities of the community.

• Serve as expert project management resource to the Project Managers within the Building Engineering practice.

• Serve as the voice of the Project Managers for communicating information, needs, innovations, and other project related issues to the BES Delivery Director. 

• Serve as a subject matter expert on HDR’s project management processes, tools, and expectations for delivery, and implementation as it applies to the unique circumstances encountered throughout the North American Building Engineering practice.

• Report regularly to the BES Delivery Director on all progress, initiatives, communications, training, and project management development progress.

• Partner with HDR’s Project Management Office (PMO) to:

  • Champion HDR’s project management framework

  • Leverage existing project management resources (training, tools, etc.)

  • Contribute toward the development of training curricula for BES Project Managers 

  • Participate in the training program as coach, guide, and/or instructor

• Champion HDR’s Quality Management System and support the education and implementation of quality requirements across the project manager network.

• Formalize a career progression for project managers.

• Maintain awareness of how our Project Managers are managing our current project work.

• Oversee and support the delivery of large, complex, and challenging projects, to the extent needed to ensure team success.   

• Lead projects, as needed.

Preferred Qualifications 

• Professional registration or certification, including PE, RA, or PMP.

• Ability to lead, inspire and advise a diverse group of professionals within a national engineering practice.

• Strong managerial and leadership skills from leading successful projects and client engagements.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, analytics and project management capabilities.

• Stronger consideration will be given to candidates with experience on large complex institutional projects including data centers, commercial real estate, aerospace, and/or semi-conductor.

• Experience in successfully managing all financial aspects of large, complex, projects.

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Job Details
Primary Location: United States-Nebraska-Omaha
Other Locations: United States-Arizona-Phoenix, United States-California-Los Angeles, United States-Texas-Round Rock, United States-North Carolina-Charlotte, United States-Texas-Austin, United States-Texas-San Antonio, United States-Missouri-Kansas City, United States-Texas-Dallas, United States-Colorado-Denver, United States-California-Folsom, United States-Virginia-Arlington, United States-New Jersey-Pennington
Industry: Building Engineering
Schedule: Full-time
Employee Status: Regular
BusinessClass: Program Management
Job Posting: Nov 4, 2026