Area Mechanical Business Class Lead

About the Role

• Provide leadership for the Nebraska/Iowa mechanical engineering team, emphasizing technical excellence, quality, recruiting, and staff development. • Collaborate with market sector leaders to ensure technical excellence across commercial, civic, industrial, federal, water, transportation, healthcare, education, laboratory, and mission‑critical facilities. • Engage with clients and community stakeholders. • Participate in marketing, planning, proposal development, and interviews in key markets. • Promote HDR and its Mechanical Engineering practice within the engineering and architecture community, including conference participation. • Serve as design lead or engineering project manager on key projects. • Assist with mechanical work‑group operations, covering staff development, profitability, morale, and quality control. • Ensure work is planned, organized, controlled, checked, and evaluated through proactive project management. • Implement, monitor, and support company policy. • Cooperate with other business class directors, operations managers, technical directors, and marketing managers on business class initiatives. • Participate in work‑sharing and mechanical practice development with HDR’s nationwide network of engineers. • Actively engage in professional or industry associations to enhance HDR technical expertise and brand.

Key Responsibilities

• ▸team leadership
• ▸technical excellence
• ▸client engagement
• ▸project management
• ▸design lead
• ▸practice development

What You Bring

We are searching for the Area Mechanical Business Class Lead for our downtown Chicago office. • Hold a master’s degree in mechanical engineering or architectural engineering with a mechanical emphasis. • Local candidate preference. • Bachelor’s degree in a professional, architecture, engineering, or related field. • Minimum of 10 years of experience. • Maintain a professional or engineering registration with related technical experience. • Experience developing and managing diverse teams. • Demonstrated attitude and commitment to active participation in HDR’s employee‑owned culture.

Requirements

• ▸master's
• ▸mechanical
• ▸bachelor's
• ▸10+ yrs
• ▸professional registration
• ▸team management

Work Environment

Office Full-Time