Senior Coastal Engineer

Environmental Science Associates•San Francisco, CA

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

Environmental Science Associates (ESA) is seeking a Senior Coastal Engineer to provide leadership for ESA’s coastal engineering and resilience practice across California and beyond. This role requires a proven leader with 15+ years of experience, a passion for coastal processes, coastal hazards, engineering with nature, sea-level-rise, and resilience planning, and the desire to help lead, grow, and mentor our coastal engineering group. The position is a leadership role focused on coastal resilience, encompassing coastal hazards analysis, adaptation planning, and implementation, while delivering high-impact solutions.

Requirements

Professionally licensed engineer
15+ years of work experience
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.
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.
Bachelor’s degree or higher in coastal engineering or a closely related discipline
Professional Engineers license in California, Washington, and/or Oregon.

Nice To Haves

Passion for coastal processes, coastal hazards, engineering with nature, sea-level-rise, and resilience planning
Desire to help lead, grow, and mentor our top-notch coastal engineering group.

Responsibilities

Provide leadership for ESA’s coastal engineering and resilience practice.
Contribute to annual and long-term strategic planning for the 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, help manage workflow and workplans and make staffing and recruitment recommendations.
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.
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.
Manage multiple responsibilities and deadlines, while working on a team or independently.
Lead and manage 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.
Provide 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 have experience integrating coastal engineering with planning, economics, and resilience strategy development.
Lead, manage, mentor, and/or supervise multi-disciplinary design and engineering teams including delegating and guiding engineers through simple to complex tasks.
Foster teamwork and inclusion, and share knowledge and expertise with more junior staff through mentoring and direct supervision.