Industrial Water/Wastewater Lead

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. We foster a culture of inclusion throughout our company and within our communities, constantly asking ourselves: What is our impact on the world? Each role throughout our organisation makes a difference in our ability to change the world for the better.

As part of our Industrial sector, you’ll help shape efficient, advanced infrastructure and environmental stewardship. We partner with clients across industries to responsibly optimize processes, modernize facilities and solve complex challenges. Our work spans the full project life cycle, from up‑front evaluation and planning studies through design and into construction monitoring and operations. You can help clients push boundaries and meet evolving industrial demands while supporting resilient infrastructure and responsible growth. This isn’t just a job; it’s a chance to engineer smarter solutions, drive industrial innovation and make a lasting impact.

About the Role: As the Industrial Water/Wastewater Lead, you will play a pivotal role in driving the growth, technical excellence and successful delivery of our industrial water and wastewater portfolio, helping to build and mature the programme within the United Kingdom. This position brings together client‑facing leadership, multidisciplinary project management and deep technical expertise to ensure high‑quality outcomes across complex assignments. Through strong collaboration, rigorous project oversight and forward‑thinking engineering leadership, you will advance our capabilities and strengthen our position as a partner of choice within the industrial water sector.

Responsibilities:

• Direct and coordinate work of single or multidisciplinary teams throughout the project’s lifecycle (from development and initiation to close‑out).
• Responsible for all aspects of complex small to medium projects or routine large projects.
• Produce and coordinate several small to medium projects concurrently.
• Establish and maintain client relations, and be involved with marketing, contractual, design and production meetings.
• Conduct work sessions for deliverable development in conjunction with other staff and stakeholders.
• Coordinate staffing and workload through entire project life cycle, and ensure completion of deliverables on schedule.
• Track financial aspects of projects, and coordinate and adjust work effort with team to ensure that work is completed within parameters of agreed‑to budget and schedule.
• Work with the Accounting, Operational and Business leadership for periodic project reviews.
• Implement QA/QC procedures.
• Perform other duties as needed.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering, Science, or equivalent field or experience.
• A minimum of 10 years of experience. Requires professional engineering license recognized by the licensing board for the location of the position offered. Example: Chartered Engineer.
• Experience in project execution within the Oil and Gas, Chemicals, Mining, Food and Beverage and/or Industrial Markets.
• Computer skills in Microsoft Office as well as standard Chemical / Process design software (examples include Hysys, Aspen Suite, EnviroSim BioWin, Hatch GPS‑X, or OLI Systems).
• Willingness to work on international work.
• An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee‑owned culture.

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.