Senior Coastal Engineer (PE)

Senior Coastal Engineer (PE)

HDR is seeking a Senior Coastal Engineer (PE) to join our nationally ranked team of coastal and waterfront professionals across the United States. We're looking for individuals passionate about restoring and protecting coastlines through innovative, resilient, and sustainable solutions.

About the Role

As a Senior Coastal Engineer, you'll play a key leadership role in delivering complex dredging, navigation, beach nourishment, and coastal restoration projects. You'll bring deep technical expertise and project leadership to initiatives that create lasting environmental and economic impact, while mentoring teams and collaborating across disciplines.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead analysis and design for dredging and navigation projects, coastal processes and beach nourishment design, and coastal restoration and resilience initiatives.
• Develop channel layouts and alignments, borrow area design and dredging production estimates, placement area and beneficial use designs.
• Provide project and task management on complex assignments.
• Perform and oversee advanced wave, sediment transport, and hydraulic and hydrologic modeling.
• Lead preparation of engineering plans, specifications, and design calculations, technical reports, memos, and client deliverables.
• Collect, analyze, and present data to clients, stakeholders, and in public forums.
• Manage and mentor multidisciplinary teams on medium to large projects.
• Serve as Project Manager on larger efforts, as needed.
• Support business development by preparing proposals, scopes of work, and cost estimates.

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters or PhD degree in Coastal, Ocean, or Civil engineering preferred.
• Experience with high-performance computing (HPC) environments.
• Experience with the application of artificial intelligence software to coastal and marine modeling.
• Experience with wave growth and transformation, coastal and estuarine hydrodynamics, littoral processes, sediment transport, marine dredging, and basic geotechnical or structural systems.
• Experience in coastal project and channel planning design and specification development.
• Experience preparing scope, schedule and fee estimates to support proposal development.
• Experience preparing technical reports.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering or equivalent field.
• A minimum of 10 years Water Resources experience.
• Requires professional engineering license recognized by the licensing board for the location of the position offered. Example: Professional Engineer (PE or P.Eng) license.
• Excellent writing and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a project team.
• An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee-owned culture is a must.

HDR is committed to the principles of employment equity. We are an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. We consider all qualified applicants, regardless of criminal histories, arrest and conviction records.