Senior Coastal Engineer/Project Manager

Grounded in safety, quality, and ethics, our experts lead their fields and guide our work with rigor, a creative spirit, and vision for growth. We draw from more than 20 technical specialties around the globe and are committed to fostering an inclusive community of diverse talents, backgrounds, and expertise. We’re a place to apply your passion and collaborate with top environmental talents on work that’s critical to our clients and the communities they support. Join a team that has the environment down to a science.

Your Opportunity

Stantec Consulting Services Inc. seeks a driven Senior Coastal Engineer/Project Manager to join our rapidly growing Coastal Engineering practice in Florida. The candidate will be a leader and a mentor located in Florida with a preferred location in the Tampa Bay, Naples, Miami/SE Florida, or Melbourne regions. Other office locations in Florida as well as flexible office schedules will be considered for the right candidate. The Stantec Coastal Engineering group is a diverse and collaborative team who leads and supports a wide variety of coastal work across the globe. Team members are expected to be able to contribute in several areas of coastal engineering, and be an expert in at least one of the following areas\:

• Natural hazards and coastal flood risk management
• Coastal hydrodynamics and morphology
• Design and analysis of coastal structures, ports, harbors, and waterways
• Coastal Management, Environmental Restoration, and Enhancement
• Field Measurements, Instrumentation, Remote-Sensing
• Dredge material management
• Nature-based solutions to address coastal ecosystem restoration and sea-level rise adaptation and resilience.
• Experience in planning, design, construction and life-cycle management of industrial and/or municipal facilities in a coastal setting would also be considered.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Demonstrated high level of understanding the principles and practices of coastal engineering, coastal hydrodynamics, wave theory, and sediment transport.
• Provide high level project management and leadership overseeing on-going projects throughout Florida.
• Proven successful marketing and business development experience in Florida.
• Demonstrated ability to complete complex engineering calculations and modeling for the design or analysis of projects located in coastal environments.
• Provide coastal engineering leadership at a project and task level and working with other engineering staff to complete projects.
• Plans, schedules, conducts or coordinates detailed phases of the coastal engineering work in coastal/estuarine/marine related projects.
• Performs coastal engineering design and modeling and/or reviews the design and drafting work of coastal engineers, designers or drafters.
• Prepares cost and project estimates, job budgets and schedules.
• Prepares or oversees the preparation of final plans and reports and submits them for approval.
• Preparation of proposals and marketing efforts.
• Conducts or oversees personnel involved in coastal engineering investigations and planning work.
• Coordinates work with other coastal engineers and professionals within and outside own discipline, and with support services staff.
• Plans, schedules and conducts or coordinates construction services on projects.
• Communicate effectively and apply with a high level of understanding the principles and practices of coastal engineering, coastal hydrodynamics, wave theory, and sediment transport mechanics.