Coastal Engineer

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.

ESA seeks a highly motivated Coastal Engineer with 5+ years of experience in physical coastal processes to join our Environmental Hydrology & Design Team in our San Francisco, CA office. The ideal candidate shall serve as a technical specialist, performing quantitative analysis, modeling, and engineering in support of multi-objective planning and design projects, including shore and wetland restoration design, natural resource management, flooding and erosion studies, and sea-level rise adaptation planning.

Who You Are 

You are a Coastal Engineer with a minimum of 5 years of professional experience in physical coastal processes such as wave theory and modeling, coastal flood hazard analysis, and sediment transport analysis and modeling.

You have a degree in Coastal Engineering or a closely related field and a California Professional Engineers license or the ability to obtain one. A master’s or PhD is desirable but not required.

You possess basic knowledge of California coastal regulations, policies, processes and principles. You are an effective team player and have experience delegating work to and providing supervisory support for entry-level staff.  You have strong writing skills and can distill complex engineering and scientific concepts in an understandable way for the public, clients, agency staff, teaming partners and other project stakeholders. You are effective at communicating complex coastal analyses in oral presentations to peer groups and technical advisory groups.

You thrive in a fast-paced consulting environment and can manage multiple responsibilities and deadlines while working on a team or independently.

What You Will Do for ESA

You will work in collaboration with our team of hydrologists, geomorphologists, biologists, engineers and regulatory experts to help manage, restore and enhance natural shores and wetlands throughout Northern California and beyond.

You may serve as a Task Manager on basic or moderately complex projects, developing and tracking scopes of work, schedules, budgets and invoices under a Project Manager’s direction.

You will write clear and concise engineering and scientific reports and papers, communicate concepts in presentations to the public and to technical reviewers and provide mentorship for more junior staff including delegating work, reviewing work for accuracy and providing constructive feedback while working on projects together.

What’s Special About Our Team

ESA's Environmental Hydrology & Design team includes engineers, hydrologists, geomorphologists, and landscape architects. Much of our work is oriented toward the restoration of habitat and ecosystem function, often as part of multi-benefit projects. As a highly integrated team, we value creative thinking, teamwork, and multi-disciplinary and cross-disciplinary engagement and integration.

What’s Special About ESA

Joining ESA means becoming part of a close-knit team of environmental professionals who contribute to outstanding projects, improve environmental stewardship, and advance a more sustainable and resilient future for our communities and wild places.

At ESA, we provide benefits such as medical, dental, and vision insurance (paid at 70% for you AND your family), annual allocations of company share through our ESOP, a 401(k) plan with company match, and paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays, to name a few.

We also provide specific programs whether you want to further your technical expertise, sharpen your business acumen, or help lead the next generation of employee-owners. We want to support you in reaching your career goals through tuition reimbursement, professional development bonuses, and attendance at conferences.

Who We Are 

We are a 100% employee-owned environmental consulting firm who values diversity and inclusion and celebrate the differences that make each of us unique. Our culture is built on mutual respect, recognizing that our variety of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives leads to better solutions, which fosters our continued success for our employee-owners and clients. 

In accordance with ESA’s duty and responsibility to provide and maintain a safe workplace that is free of known hazards and to minimize the exposure to potential hazards, any employee who works from an ESA office or conducts any other in-person ESA work-related activity is required to submit their proof of vaccination status or have received an approved exemption and accommodation in states which this applies. 

If you are an applicant with a disability that requires a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process or are limited in the ability—or unable to use—the online application system and need an alternative method for applying, you may contact our Human Resources Department via email: humanresources@esassoc.com for assistance.

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ESA is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to a diverse and inclusive work environment. (EOE M/V/F/D)