Senior CFD Consultant

Overview

As a Senior CFD Consultant at HDR, you lead advanced computational fluid dynamics studies, guiding clients and project teams with technical direction and commercial awareness. You work within HDR’s employee-owned culture to drive innovation and high-quality delivery across the project lifecycle. Your role spans independent work and cross-functional collaboration to support sustainable, high-performance building systems. This position offers opportunities to advance and influence the future of built environments.

Pay / Benefits

• 100-percent employee owned
• care er advancement opportunities

Responsibilities

• Perform technical quality audits on your work and that of others as needed
• Support all aspects of your division’s CFD services for timely, integrated client deliverables
• Work independently or with a team to meet business requirements across office, remote, and site environments
• Maintain strong relationships with colleagues and project teams
• Seek input from division/project teams to enable successful delivery
• Keep professional accreditations and knowledge up to date with industry standards
• Manage data collection, monitoring, and reporting to support deliverables and service performance
• Maintain professionalism and effective communication with stakeholders
• Handle additional duties aligned with the role, including administrative tasks
• Contribute to broad team objectives and project scope
• Respond to tasks with tact and diplomacy to reach satisfactory outcomes

Key requirements

• BEng or MSc in a relevant field with emphasis on Fluid Dynamics and Thermodynamics; a PhD is desirable
• Minimum 4 years of industry experience modelling and reporting CFD for mechanical systems in commercial, industrial, or data centre buildings (data centres experience essential)
• Membership in an industry association (e.g., IMechE, CIBSE or IET) with progress toward Practitioner/Chartered status
• Proficiency in CFD, Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer, HVAC, and ANSYS software
• Competence in MS Office, Rhino, ANSYS Fluent, and other relevant software
• Excellent communication, teamwork, and proactive project management skills
• Ability to read and interpret architectural, civil/structural, MEP, and specialist drawings and specifications

• communication
• teamwork
• proactivity
• CFD
• Thermodynamics
• Heat and Mass Transfer

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