
Area Professional Services Manager
Elizabethtown, KYFull-time$7.25/hrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
The Area Professional Services Manager leads technical delivery, quality, and workforce development across HDR’s area operation, with emphasis on cross-sector and area-wide services. The role coordinates business groups, develops staff, oversees project staffing and reviews, and supports strategic planning and business growth. It also advances technical and digital delivery and promotes consistent processes, quality programs, and continuous improvement.
Skills & qualifications
Skills
Qualifications
Full job description
Experience Required
15 - 20 years
Minimum Education Required
Bachelor's Degree
Compensation
$7.25 / hourly
Hours Per Week
40
Number Of Positions
1
Work Schedule and Shift Requirements
First (Day)
Job Description
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 work to weave diversity, equity, and inclusion into our work and foster a sense of belonging throughout the company and within our communities, we constantly ask ourselves: What is our impact on the world?
Watch Our Story:' https://www.hdrinc.com/our-story'
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.
At HDR, our employeeownership m odel shapes everything we do, including how we support and care for our people. Our diverse service lines, including Water, Architecture, Building Engineering Services, Field Services, Power, Waste, Industrial, and Transportation reflect our commitment to shaping resilient, sustainable, and forwardthinking communities around the world. Across these disciplines, our teams design and deliver solutions that safeguard public health, enhance quality of life, power innovation, and drive responsible growth. Whether advancing clean water, creating healing and learning environments, engineering nextgeneration facilities, or building the infrastructure that moves people and energy, our work is rooted in technical excellence and a shared sense of purpose. Our employeeowners collaborate across specialties, combining creativity, precision, and deep expertise to solve the most complex challenges facing our clients and communities.
In the role of Area Professional Services Manager, you'll be a key leader in our thriving Area operation, providing leadership and mentoring across our organization for technical delivery, quality, and workforce development with emphasis on development of cross sector and area wide services. We'll count on you to:
Serve as a champion for BGX opportunities and work with Business Group Managers to identify, pursue, and book BGX projects
Manage and provide leadership to assigned business class leaders, including the cross-sector leaders, and their teams
Work with Business Group managers to drive business and staff growth for assigned cross sectors and business classes across and within area business groups
Improve coordination and consistency across business groups
Lead and monitor development and training of assigned staff in technical and business competencies
Oversee workload balancing and ensure qualified staffing of project teams of assigned staff across business groups
Work with Business Group Professional Service Leads and assist them to:
Promote technical excellence across project delivery
Lead QA/QC programs and continuous improvement efforts
Support reviews, risk mitigation, and workload balancing of projects
Build staff capability through mentoring, training, and development
Monitor activities for continuous improvement including development and use of technical standards, procedures, best practices, and lessons learned
Lead and participate in project reviews and support project teams with management of risks
Oversee technical and digital delivery evolution, in collaboration with subject matter experts
Support communication and coordination within all business groups
Support area business groups related to hiring and retaining key staff and subject matter experts
Work with Area Manager and Business Group Managers to streamline and coordinate business processes consistent with Area, corporate policy, and MOA
Collaborate with Area operations, market sectors, business groups, business classes, and project delivery leaders
Participate in Area strategic planning and plan implementation
Perform other duties as needed
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Required Qualifications
Bachelors degree in a related field
A minimum 15 years' of experience
Maintains professional or engineering registration and has extensive related technical expertise
Experienced in management and development of diverse teams
Works cooperatively with operations managers, technical staff and marketing managers on professional services-related efforts
Committed to quality, improvement and HDR values
An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee-owned culture is a must
What We Believe
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.
Our Commitment
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.
Primary Location:United States-Kentucky-Elizabethtown
Other Locations:United States-Kentucky-Louisville, United States-Tennessee-Brentwood, United States-Kentucky-Lexington, United States-Tennessee-Nashville
Industry:Operational Leadership
Schedule:Full-time
Employee Status:Regular
BusinessClass:Marketing and Admin
Job Posting:Nov 6, 2026
At HDR, we are committed to the principles of employment equity.
USA: We are a Federal Contractor, Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. We consider all qualified candidates regardless of minority, veteran, disability, s exual orientation, gender, gender identity or any other status protected by law.
CANADA: We welcome applications from all qualified individuals.
AUSTRALIA: We consider all qualified candidates regardless of gender, ethnicity, country of birth, political or religious affiliation, health status, or any other status protected by law.
At HDR, health and safety matters.
For some positions, you may be required to provide drug and alcohol testing, before or during employment, based on our Drug Testing and Drug Free Workplace Policy.
If you are required to drive for us, we require a valid driver's license and compliance with our vehicle policy.
Job Type
Full time
Benefits Offered
Not specified
Veteran Preference
No
Place of Work
On-site
Requisition ID
196327
How this job compares
Set against the 8,342 open Operations Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 7, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$7.25/hr
- Kentucky median$7/hr23 hourly ranges
- US median$21–28/hr651 hourly ranges
This rate, $7.25/hr, is close to the Kentucky median midpoint ($7/hr) — in the middle half of Operations Manager hourly ranges in Kentucky.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 166 open Operations Manager jobs in Kentucky and 8,342 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Kentucky
- Amazon12 open
- Compass Group, North America10 open
- Crane Worldwide Logistics6 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 15 years of experience — more than three in four Operations Manager postings that state a minimum ask for (median 4 years, across 6,273 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 1,705 of the 8,342 open Operations Manager jobs (20%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 7, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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