Senior Coastal Engineer

About the role

Environmental Science Associates (ESA) is seeking a Senior Coastal Engineer to lead our coastal engineering and resilience practice across California and beyond. This is a leadership role at the forefront of coastal resilience, spanning coastal hazards analysis, adaptation planning, and implementation.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to annual and long-term strategic planning for our coastal engineering and coastal resilience practice.
• Cultivate best practices, facilitate knowledge sharing and technical training, mentor and manage more junior staff, develop and oversee implementation of engineering QA/QC protocols specific to coastal engineering and analysis.
• Identify opportunities, track markets and clients and lead strategy to link and leverage resilience/sea level rise planning with ESA’s coastal sciences and engineering expertise.
• Leverage ESA’s multi-disciplinary practices across regions to help connect, integrate, drive and expand our teams’ demonstrated capabilities in coastal hazards analysis, coastal resilience planning, and sea level rise adaptation firmwide.
• Collaborate with other engineers, coastal planners, hydrologists, geomorphologists, landscape architects, ecologists, biologists, economists, and other specialists in advancing coastal engineering, resilience planning and habitat restoration approaches and other project solutions from concept to implementation.
• Help plan, design and/or manage a wide array of important, challenging and exciting projects – leading efforts from coastal risk assessment through implementation – including coastal hazards assessments (such as wave runup, flooding, and erosion), sea level rise vulnerability analyses, adaptation planning, Living Shorelines design, ecosystem restoration, climate change resilience/sea level rise adaptation, fisheries habitat enhancement, and engineering with nature.

Requirements

• Professionally licensed engineer with 15+ years of experience leading coastal engineering projects, including expertise in nature-based solutions, coastal resilience planning, coastal hazards analysis (waves, runup, erosion, and flooding) as well as flood management along the U.S. Pacific Coast and beyond.
• Led and managed complex coastal engineering projects from concept through construction, including coastal hazards and vulnerability assessments, engineering evaluations, and erosion/flooding studies, technical reports, design plan sets, specifications, cost estimates (PS&E packages), construction schedules, and/or construction support.
• Adept in the engineering steps required to move projects from concept to construction bid package, including coordination with multidisciplinary teams such as geotechnical, structural, and hydraulic engineers as well as coastal planners and landscape architects.
• Provided senior engineer review and oversight on large-scale coastal engineering projects, with an emphasis on Living Shorelines, nature-based solutions and multi-benefit flood and erosion protection, and experience integrating coastal engineering with planning, economics, and resilience strategy development.
• Lead, managed, mentored, and/or supervised multi-disciplinary design and engineering teams including delegating and guiding engineers through simple to complex tasks.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in coastal engineering or a closely related discipline.
• A Professional Engineers license in California, Washington, and/or Oregon.

Skills

• Strong communication and teamwork skills.
• Ability to foster an inclusive environment.
• Effective mentoring and supervisory abilities.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance (paid at 70% for you AND your family).
• Annual allocations of company shares through our ESOP.
• A 401(k) plan with company match.
• Annual performance-based bonuses.
• Paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays.

Pay

$187,000—$210,000 USD

Schedule

Full-time

Equal Opportunity Employer

Environmental Science Associates (ESA) is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to a diverse and inclusive work environment.