Western Canada Solid Waste Lead

Overview

Lead solid waste market sector growth in Western Canada, managing projects and teams.

Key Responsibilities

• client support
• quality culture
• talent acquisition
• business development
• issue resolution
• industry outreach

Tasks

-Provide local support for existing Western Canadian clients and projects, and maintain existing client relationships for continued business growth -Champions a quality-culture within the sector organization, and within production teams, serving the sector’s clients. -Identify future staff needs and lead process of attracting and hiring staff to build team to support project work in Western Canada. -Directs the technical messaging and professional attendance at professional organizations and industry events. -Identifies and develops opportunities in Western Canada to expand services to clients. -Acts as client manager for select clients, actively developing relationships with the candidate’s previous contacts and HDR’s existing clients. -Identify and resolve issues effectively and efficiently -Have a significant network within the solid waste community and leverage existing connections to gain business opportunities for HDR -Fostering collaborative team attitudes -Works with Canadian Solid Waste Market Sector Lead to develop business and marketing initiatives, prioritize business efforts that provide maximum return on investment. -Assist with Western US projects and pursuits on an as needed basis

Requirements

• pe license
• engineering degree
• ms project
• project management
• leadership
• business development

What You Bring

-Experienced in overall staff development to include recruiting, career path and professional growth -Ability to work cooperatively with Regional Market Sector Directors, Market Sector Directors, Business Class Directors, Regional Business Group Directors, Area Business Group Managers, Area Marketing Managers and Area Managers -Requires professional engineering license recognized by the licensing board for the location of the position offered. Example: Professional Engineer (PE or P.Eng) license. -Strong conceptual, organizational, analytical, problem solving and research abilities -Able to travel across North America as required -Strong interpersonal skills -Ability to support multiple complex and time sensitive projects effectively -A minimum 5 years project management experience -Able to work under and meet tight deadlines -Experienced with industry associations and maintains a visible profile in the market sector -Excellent writing and verbal communication skills for a broad range of audiences -MS Office and MS Project experience (Access experience would be plus) -10 years related experience -Bachelor's degree in Engineering -Experienced in development and management of strategic marketing programs for planning and/or engineering services -Experienced in development and management of a wide range of client relationships and specific program and/or project pursuits -Recognize and understand big picture concepts while recognizing details that are important -Possess and maintains a deep understanding of how clients perceive their technical problems and has the ability to package HDR expertise as solutions to these problems. -Familiar with risk management activities for both contract reviews and project deliverables. -A minimum of 15 years working with regulatory and approval/permitting agencies, writing proposals, developing scopes of work, budgets, and schedules for complex waste projects. Experience with managing a team of people is an essential asset. -Demonstrated leadership, business development and strategic planning skills

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