Senior Coastal Engineer; PE

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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.

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.

• Lead analysis and design for:
  • Dredging and navigation projects
  • Coastal processes and beach nourishment design
  • 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
  • Coastal project and channel development design
• 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
  • Cost estimates

• 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

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering or equivalent field
• Minimum of 10 years Water Resources experience
• Professional engineering license recognized by the licensing board for the location of the position (e.g., PE or P.Eng.)
• Excellent writing and communication skills
• Ability to work independently and as part of a project team
• Commitment to being an active participant of our employee‑owned culture

United States – Texas – Houston

At HDR, we are committed to the principles of employment equity.

We consider all qualified applicants, regardless of criminal histories, arrest and conviction records.