Senior Coastal Engineer; PE

Position: Senior Coastal Engineer (PE)
Description At HDR, our employee-owners are fully engaged in creating a welcoming environment where each of us is valued and respected, a place where everyone is empowered to bring their authentic selves and novel ideas to work every day. As we foster a culture of inclusion throughout our company and within our communities, we constantly ask ourselves:
What is our impact on the world?

Watch Our Story:' ' Each and every role throughout our organization makes a difference in our ability to change the world for the better. Read further to learn how you could help make great things possible not only in your community, but around the world. We believe water is more than a resource, it's a shared responsibility. As part of our Water Business Group, you’ll help shape how communities manage water for generations to come.

From delivering safe drinking water and treating wastewater responsibly to developing sustainable water supplies and protecting lives and property through flood control, your work will directly support public health, environmental sustainability, and infrastructure resilience.  We bring together experts across disciplines to solve complex challenges with bold thinking and technical excellence. Whether you're modernizing aging systems or pioneering innovative approaches, your contributions will make a meaningful difference in people’s lives.

This isn’t just a job, it's a chance to lead change, drive progress, and leave a lasting legacy. 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

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

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

Qualifications

Required Qualifications Bachelor's degree in…