Senior Coastal Engineer

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>Environmental Science Associates (ESA) is a 100% employee-owned environmental consulting firm. We plan, design, permit, mitigate, and restore for projects across our communities, infrastructure systems, open spaces, and wildlands. We are 50 years strong in 21 offices across California, the Pacific Northwest, and the Southeastern United States.</strong></p></div><p><strong>Environmental Science Associates&nbsp;</strong>(ESA) seeks a <strong>Senior Coastal Engineer </strong>to provide leadership for ESA’s coastal engineering and resilience practice across California and beyond. We are looking for a proven leader with <strong>15+ years of work experience, </strong>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 top-notch coastal engineering group. This is a leadership role at the forefront of coastal resilience—spanning coastal hazards analysis, adaptation planning, and implementation—while delivering high-impact solutions.</p> <p><strong>Who You Are</strong></p> <ul> <li>You are a professionally licensed engineer with <strong>15+ years of experience</strong> 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.</li> <li>You have 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&amp;E packages), construction schedules, and/or construction support.</li> <li>You are 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.</li> <li>You have 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 have experience integrating coastal engineering with planning, economics, and resilience strategy development.</li> <li>You have led, managed, mentored, and/or supervised multi-disciplinary design and engineering teams including delegating and guiding engineers through simple to complex tasks. You are an effective communicator who fosters teamwork and inclusion, and shares knowledge and expertise with more junior staff through mentoring and direct supervision.