Altran appointed Robert Alder to its North American Energy team in the newly created position of vice president of power engineering and design. Alder will have responsibility for strengthening engineering operations and delivery across North America's Energy Group. Most recently, Alder was vice president of business development for Kiewit Power Group.

In this role for more than a decade, he successfully developed and executed engineering services across a number of power market sectors including gas and coal-fired generation, air quality control systems, nuclear, power delivery, and renewable generation. Prior to Kiewit, Bob was vice president at Parsons Energy & Chemicals, a professional engineering and construction management firm. His responsibilities included both engineering management and project operations.