Senior Facility Design Manager

Senior Facility Design Manager

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? Each and every role throughout our organization makes a difference in our ability to change the world for the better. Read further to learn how you could help make great things possible not only in your community, but around the world.

The Senior Facility Design Manager is a key representative of the Operations & Maintenance (O&M) Facilities Design Business Class within an office. The O&M Facilities Design staff provide facility programming, planning, functional design, and equipment industrial design as part of multi-discipline design teams. The Senior Facility Design Manager must demonstrate an ability to both manage local production staff and to be a team player within a firm that is a globally recognized leader in the field. This individual is ultimately responsible for project and resource management, including budget and schedule control, communications, client, consultant, and vendor relations for all work delivered by O&M Facilities Design staff on a project. This individual oversees reviews, and approves all phases of facility-related projects from start to finish and often leads cross-functional teams across multiple time zones. The primary duties of this position vary but are generally to provide project management, marketing, and leadership to a team of facility design specialists, engineers, and architects supporting the growth of the O&M Facilities Design team.

O&M Facilities Design Business Class is a professional services team supporting HDR's Transportation Business Group. The primary focus of this business class is to provide professional services and specialized facility-related design services and to support delivery projects related to operations and maintenance facilities and other similar or related facility types in all market sectors within the Transportation Business Group and all other business groups. A key sector with this business group is Transit and Transit Agencies both locally and across North America and as such a key market for the O&M Facilities Design Business Class.

In the role of Senior Facility Design Manager, we'll count on you to:

• Direct and coordinate work of single or multidiscipline teams throughout the project's lifecycle (from development & initiation to close-out)
• Responsible for all aspects of large multidiscipline projects or medium-sized projects with high degree of technical complexity, involving a large project staff
• Produce and coordinate several 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
• Supervise large project staffs and act as mentor for less-experienced Project Managers
• Perform other duties as needed
• Travel to client sites or other HDR offices is required.

Keywords: Senior Facility Design Manager, maintenance facilities, industrial facilities

Preferred Qualifications

• Power user of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and MS Project)
• 10+ years' experience in planning, design or engineering facility projects
• A minimum of 5 years of project management experience (PMP certification preferred)
• Design experience with various transportation operations and maintenance facilities and/or industrial facilities
• Working knowledge of Revit and AutoCAD
• Working knowledge of design plan development
• Past supervisory experience
• Licensure in Architecture and/or Engineering
• LEED Accreditation, USGBC or sustainability certification/credentials

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• A minimum of 10 years experience
• Professional registration, license or certification may be required based on role
• Strong communication and listening skills
• Ability to handle multiple assignments
• Good leadership and organizational skills
• An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee-owned culture is a must

HDR is our company. Together, we build on each other's life experiences and perspectives to make great things possible every day. This shapes our collaborative culture, encourages organizational trust and connects us closer to the clients and communities we serve.

As employee owners, we all have a role in creating an inclusive environment where each of us is welcomed, valued, respected, and empowered to bring our authentic selves to work every day. Our eight Employee Network Groups (Asian Pacific, Black, Hispanic/Latino(a), LGBTQ+, People with Disabilities, Veterans, Women, Young Professionals) help create a sense of belonging and foster a supportive environment where everyone is empowered to engage and contribute. Each group has an executive sponsor and is open to all employees.

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. The expected compensation range for this position depends upon skills, experience, education and geographical location. (Stated benefits are for full-time regular positions. Temporary and part-time roles eligible for limited benefits.) $137,000 - $196,000

Primary Location: United States-California-Los Angeles

Industry: Transit

Schedule: Full-time

Employee Status: Regular

BusinessClass: OM Facilities Design

Job Posting: Sep 27, 2025

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.