California Advanced Water Treatment and Re-use Leader

At HDR, our employee-owners are fully engaged in creating a welcoming environment where each of us is valued and respected, a place where everyone is empowered to bring their authentic selves and novel ideas to work every day. As we work to weave diversity, equity, and inclusion into our work and foster a sense of belonging throughout the company and within our communities, we constantly ask ourselves: What is our impact on the world?

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The California Advanced Water Treatment and Re-use Leader is a key role within HDR's growing West Region Water Business Group. This position will help to develop and implement strategies for increasing HDR's share of water treatment market in California and across the U.S. This is an exciting opportunity to join our industry leading 100% employee-owned firm in an influential leadership role.

In 2024 Engineering News Record ranked HDR sixth in size of business in the important Water category. We have more than 400 employees in our Drinking Water Sector nationally and over 340 California based Water staff. HDR's Water Business Group offer a uniquely comprehensive breadth of traditional and cross sector services enabling holistic approaches to One Water challenges. Our services span utility master planning, water treatment, reuse, applied research, transmission and distribution, water supply, asset management, operations assistance, program management, construction management and inspection, funding and financing, strategic communications, advisory services, and more.

The HDR advantage includes:

• An expanding, diverse resume of conventional and advanced treatment design projects, covering a wide range of facility capacities, treatment goals, delivery mechanisms and applications (e.g. surface water, potable reuse, impaired groundwater and desalination).
• Cutting edge applied research, planning, and design work across critical areas of advanced treatment residuals management (liquid and solid streams); PFAS ultimate destruct; utility owned GAC reactivation
• Our applied research group, the One Water Institute, supports HDR thought leadership across all water sectors, through technical expertise, laboratories, and field-ready treatment, monitoring, and other analytical tools.
• Industry leading PFAS and LCRR experts who help utilities navigate the new regulations with all their assessment, planning, implementation and maintenance needs.
• Industry-leading experience on large conveyance design, including pipelines, pump stations and intakes.
• Nationally recognized asset management, condition assessment and rehabilitation services, covering linear assets, vertical facilities, and assessment technologies.
• Capital planning, funding, grant writing, and affordability expertise to help our clients access and prioritize the capital needs to advance their critical water programs.
• Initiative-driven sector leadership focused on market drivers to keep HDR on top of market trends and drivers.
• Our breadth of in house traditional and cross-sector services positions us to respond to One Water challenges through holistic and programmatic approaches, providing best value to our clients. These include
• Best-in-class strategic communication team well-versed in drinking water market drivers and initiatives.

Preferred Qualifications

• 15 years experience in water treatment design, with emphasis on advanced water treatment facilities
• PE
• Proven industry leadership
• Team leadership experience
• CA experience is preferred but the right candidate can relocate for the role
• Active in industry associations

Keywords: water treatment, drinking water, potable, one water, Integrated water, advanced water treatment

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

What We Believe
HDR is our company. Together, we build on each other's life experiences and perspectives to make great things possible every day. This shapes our collaborative culture, encourages organizational trust and connects us closer to the clients and communities we serve.

Our Commitment
As employee owners, we all have a role in creating an inclusive environment where each of us is welcomed, valued, respected and empowered to bring our authentic selves to work every day.

Our eight Employee Network Groups (Asian Pacific, Black, Hispanic/Latino(a), LGBTQ+, People with Disabilities, Veterans, Women, Young Professionals) help create a sense of belonging and foster a supportive environment where everyone is empowered to engage and contribute. Each group has an executive sponsor and is open to all employees.

We provide a comprehensive benefits package that promotes employee ownership, employee health, performance, and success, which includes medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, life insurance, an employee assistance program, paid time away, parental leave, paid holidays, a retirement savings plan with employer match, employee referral bonus and tuition reimbursement. The expected compensation range for this position is $163,000 - $233,000 and depends upon skills, experience, education and geographical location. (Stated benefits are for full-time regular positions. Temporary and part-time roles eligible for limited benefits.)

Primary Location:
United States-California-Los Angeles

Other Locations:
United States-California-Walnut Creek, United States-California-Long Beach, United States-California-Folsom, United States-California-San Diego, United States-California-Santa Clara, United States-California-Irvine, United States-California-Sacramento

Industry:
Water

Schedule:
Full-time

Employee Status:
Regular

BusinessClass:
Water Treatment

Job Posting:
Apr 16, 2025

At HDR, we are committed to the principles of employment equity. We are an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer ). We consider all qualified applicants, regardless of criminal histories, arrest and conviction records.