Responsibilities

• Develop and implement HDR's environmental strategy for the TMT Market Sector.
• Support TMT market sector annual and long-range strategic planning initiatives.
• Identify emerging market trends, permitting challenges, and regulatory developments affecting data center and telecommunications clients.
• Help define HDR's market positioning and growth strategy for environmental permitting, planning, and compliance services within the TMT sector.
• Partner with Client Development Leaders and Market Sector Leadership to expand HDR's environmental services footprint globally.
• Serve as HDR's environmental ambassador within industry organizations, conferences, and client forums.
• Serve as HDR's primary point of contact and technical resource for environmental and land use permitting associated with data centers, telecommunications facilities, fiber infrastructure, network operations centers, and related technology developments.
• Provide technical oversight and strategic guidance for permitting programs supporting greenfield and brownfield development projects.
• Lead development of permitting strategies that support accelerated project delivery schedules while maintaining compliance with applicable regulations.
• Support clients in obtaining approvals from federal, state, provincial, county, municipal, and other regulatory agencies.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a Professional, Architecture, Engineering or closely related field
• A minimum of 10 years of experience in related field
• For Business Class leadership roles for which the core service being overseen is technical design, the role must maintain a professional or Architecture/Engineering registration and has related technical experience
• Experienced in development and management of diverse teams
• Works cooperatively with other business class directors, operations managers, technical directors and marketing managers on business class efforts
• Committed to quality, improvement and HDR values
• An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee-owned culture is a must

Preferred

• Advanced degree in environmental planning, environmental science, urban planning, engineering, public policy, or related discipline.
• Minimum 10+ years of experience leading environmental planning, permitting, and regulatory programs for major infrastructure, industrial, technology, telecommunications, or mission-critical projects.
• Demonstrated expertise in land use planning, development entitlements, and construction permitting.
• Extensive experience obtaining approvals from state, provincial, county, municipal, and local regulatory agencies.
• Demonstrated experience leading permitting programs for large, complex development projects with aggressive schedules.
• Strong knowledge of permitting requirements associated with site development, utility infrastructure, zoning, occupancy approvals, and construction activities.
• Proven ability to build and maintain executive-level client relationships.
• Demonstrated success supporting business development, project pursuits, and strategic growth initiatives.
• Experience supporting data center campus development projects.
• Experience with telecommunications, fiber, wireless, or digital infrastructure development.

Benefits

• 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.