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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?
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We believe building engineering is more than systems and structures, it’s about powering progress and enabling innovation. As part of HDR’s Building Engineering Services Group, you’ll help design the critical infrastructure that supports the digital age and shapes the spaces where people work, connect, and thrive. From high-performance data centers driving the future of AI to dynamic commercial environments, your work will directly support technological advancement, sustainability, and human experience. We bring together mechanical, electrical, structural, and civil engineering experts to solve complex design challenges with precision, creativity, and collaboration. Whether you're optimizing energy efficiency, integrating resilient systems, or engineering the backbone of next-generation facilities, your contributions will help define the future of the built environment. This isn’t just a job, it’s a chance to lead innovation, engineer impact, and build a legacy of excellence.
As Programme Director, you will lead multi-service line programme portfolios, providing senior governance, commercial leadership and delivery assurance. You will set design delivery governance across portfolios, promote buildability and innovation, and ensure consistent change control, information management and quality assurance across service lines.
The ideal candidate should have a proven background in successfully delivering various data centre and mission critical projects ranging from upfront planning and pre-design activities through detail design, construction support and commissioning. This position is an opportunity to join one of the largest, fastest growing, and comprehensive practices in the industry. In addition to managing and delivery projects (which is the primary focus of this role), the successful candidate must possess the drive, experience and charisma needed to develop and secure work from a robust global client base and expand upon HDR’s reputation within these markets. This individual will manage multi-disciplinary design teams from project conception to completion. Keen focus on organizational skills and follow-through are required to be successful in this role. This person will work closely with the Regional and Area Building Engineering Services Business Group Managers as well as our global TMT client management team and Country Director of Operations. Some travel to client sites or other HDR offices is required.
Primary Responsibilities
- Collaborate on development strategies, new business prospects, technical services, quality, and production methods and standards, to achieve the established goals and objectives of the business group, region and company.
- Define portfolio strategy and lead co-ordinated delivery across multiple service lines.
- Set and own portfolio governance, including assurance, reporting cadence, escalations and decision forums.
- Set design delivery governance across portfolios, including standards for DTMs, action/decision management, transmittals and change control.
- Champion proactive risk identification and mitigation environments that allow innovation and agile delivery.
- Drive buildability and efficiency through appropriate innovation and stage-gated design delivery across programmes.
- Own executive client relationships and lead after-sales/client reviews to support repeat work and growth.
- Drive commercial outcomes across the portfolio including forecasting, revenue strategy, margin performance and contract oversight.
- Lead portfolio growth initiatives, including new opportunities, cross-selling and key bids/framework responses.
- Oversee portfolio quality, compliance and audit readiness (ISO 9001/14001), ensuring consistent QA/QC and document control.
- Lead and develop Senior Project Managers and Project Managers through mentoring and capability building.
- Act as final escalation point for portfolio delivery, quality and commercial issues prior to executive intervention.
General Duties
- Support practice leadership with strategic planning, operational metrics and performance reporting.
- Drive community-of-practice learning for delivery (templates, playbooks, lessons learnt), including design management best practice.
- Support training and succession planning to enhance performance and ensure future e
About the Company
HDR is an employee-owned design firm specializing in engineering, architecture, environmental and construction services. We're ranked No. 6 among the world's design firms and we're the largest healthcare design firm. Led by the strength of our values and a culture shaped by employee ownership, we network with each other, build on each other's contributions, and collaborate together to make great things possible. When you join HDR, we give you license to do the same. We help you take charge of your career, giving you multiple...
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