Environmental Team Lead

HDR is seeking an Environmental Team Lead in St. Louis, MO, to manage a team of environmental professionals. Responsibilities include overseeing daily operations, project management, staff development, and client communication. The role requires a Master's degree in a related field and at least 10 years of experience in environmental planning and project management. Preference is given to local candidates with experience in Missouri, Illinois, or Kansas.
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HDR is seeking an Environmental Team Lead / Sr. Project Manager with the skills, interest, and dedication to manage a dynamic team of Environmental profressionals in St. Louis. In this position, you will be responsible for providing technical expertise, primarily in our Resources Business Group, and assisting with leading the environmental team in St. Louis. Specifically, you will work with senior management to develop business, manage and deliver projects, develop staff, and respond to client needs.
In this role, we'll count on you to:
- Lead and manage the daily operations of the St. Louis Environmental team. This includes taking responsibility for staff development, morale, quality control, profitability and marketing support. It also includes coordinating with other HDR teams and prioritizing projects and staffing to meet scope, schedule, and budget commitments.
- Function as a Project Manager and/or Task Manager, taking responsibility for technical requirements and production, budget, schedule, and client communications. You would plan, organize, control, and evaluate work through HDR’s proactive project management system.
- Provide technical direction and guidance to staff, leading report preparation, and providing quality control reviews.
- Manage and develop multidiscipline teams.This includes coordination with other managers on project staffing, scope, schedules, and budgets.
- Coordinate with the Kansas City Section Manager/Team Lead, local area Project Managers, and ES&P leadership as needed to identify, maintain, and support project work
- Work cooperatively with marketing staff in local and national marketing and production efforts, to include planning, proposals, and interviews.
- Perform other duties as needed.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s degree in Biology, Environmental Sciences, Planning or a related field.
- Minimum of 10 years of experience in environmental planning, permitting, and regulatory compliance.
- Minimum of 3 years of experience in task management / project management.
- Experience leading environmental tasks as part of other small, medium, and large/complex engineering and planning projects.
- Project Management experience including management of scope, schedule, and budgets.
- Excellent writing skills.
- Self-starter with ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Preference given to local candidates. Experience in Missouri, Illinois, and/or Kansas strongly preferred.
- Proven experience managing and mentoring biologists / environmental scientists.
- Experience leading staff on projects or teams.
- Experience in developing plans, writing proposals, developing scopes of work, budgets, and schedules for environmental projects with multi-disciplinary teams and multi-agency efforts.
- Interest and experience in infrastructure projects such as energy, solid waste, water, wastewater, transportation, and transit.
- Working knowledge of local, state and federal requirements for environmental compliance.