Southern California Waterfront Infrastructure Leader

HDR
$157,000 - $223,000 a year
San Diego County, California
Full time
3 weeks ago

Southern California Waterfront Infrastructure Leader

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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 foster a culture of inclusion throughout our company and within our communities, we constantly ask ourselves: What is our impact on the world?

Watch Our Story:' https://www.hdrinc.com/our-story'

Each and every role throughout our organization makes a difference in our ability to change the world for the better. Read further to learn how you could help make great things possible not only in your community, but around the world.


The primary duties of the Southern California Waterfront Infrastructure Leader include:

  • Planning, directing and monitoring all aspects of multi-discipline projects related to heavy industrial seaport, riverport, and private cargo and passenger terminals and other waterfront infrastructure including, though not limited to, municipal, federal, state, and DOD seawalls, flood walls and gates, marinas, piers, and shipyards.
  • Demonstrate extensive design experience in local maritime and waterfront infrastructure projects.
  • Be involved with the oversight and coordination of several projects concurrently.
  • Involved with design and production efforts, conducts schematic, design development and contract document work in conjunction with Project Managers, appropriate technical professionals and other disciplines.
  • Ensure project deliverables and supporting documentation are complete, understandable, conform to applicable and industry standards relative to their intended purpose, including client and HDR requirements.
  • Take responsibility for area coordination, monitoring and improvement of technical competencies of business class staff and products to meet client needs and market drivers, all within direction and goals of business class plans.
  • Participate in business class strategic planning, budgeting and plan implementation.
  • Collaborate on business class efforts with area operations, marketing and project management.
  • Overseeing and/or serving in a lead technical role or problem-solving role in maritime projects.
  • Being comfortable being viewed as a leader on these types of projects to participate in business class practice and professional discipline groups, project teams and activities to continually improve standards and best practices and implement effective quality assurance and quality control reviews.
  • Supervise more junior engineers in the performance of engineering tasks.
  • Serve in a capacity of managing, supporting or leading major pursuits.
  • Responsible for implementing QA/QC procedures and completing reviews of complex projects.
  • Acts as mentor/supervisor for less experienced designers.
  • Ensure that emerging technologies are being implemented and that HDR is continually advancing Maritime and Waterfront Infrastructure design capabilities.
Preferred Qualifications
  • California PE license and ability to gain additional state licensure as deemed beneficial to the program
  • Experience with heavy industrial and ports and maritime related projects along with construction observation or administration experience.
  • Demonstrated understanding of construction methods and logic of civil, industrial, coastal, and other types of related subject matter.
  • Familiarity with structural and marine design codes, including but not limited to: AASHTO, ACI 318, AISC, ASCE 7, IBC, NDS for Wood Construction, API, OCIMF, MOTEMS, PIANC, UFC and USACE design manuals
  • Established client relationships with Southern California Port or San Diego, Long Beach, and Los Angeles.
  • Actively engaged in professional or industry associations to enhance HDR technical expertise and brand.
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 $157,000 - $223,000 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-San Diego

Industry:

Maritime/Ports

Schedule:

Full-time

Employee Status:

Regular

BusinessClass:

Waterfront Infrastructure

Job Posting:

Aug 1, 2025

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