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Environmental Science Associates

Los Angeles, CA (In Person)

Full-Time

Posted 8 weeks ago (Updated 8 weeks ago) • Actively hiring

Expires 5/27/2026

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Coastal Engineer
Los Angeles California United States; San Francisco California United States; Seattle Washington United States Environmental Science Associates (ESA) is a 100% employeeowned environmental consulting firm. We plan design permit mitigate and restore for projects across ourmunities 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 based out of our San Francisco CA office. The ideal candidate shall serve as a technical specialist performing quantitative analysis modeling and engineering in support of multiobjective planning and design projects including shore and wetland restoration design natural resource management flooding and erosion studies and sealevel rise adaptation planning. The ideal candidate shall be able to work onsite a few days per week in one of our offices (San Francisco CA Sacramento CA Los Angeles CA andor Seattle WA). 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. An advanced degree with 24 years of experience will be considered as well.
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 entrylevel staff. You have strong writing skills and can distillplex engineering and scientific concepts in an understandable way for the public clients agency staff teaming partners and other project stakeholders. You are effective atmunicatingplex coastal analyses in oral presentations to peer groups and technical advisory groups.
You thrive in a fastpaced 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 moderatelyplex 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 papersmunicate 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 multibenefit projects. As a highly integrated team we value creative thinking teamwork and multidisciplinary and crossdisciplinary engagement and integration.
What's Special About ESA
Joining ESA means bing part of a closeknit team of environmental professionals who contribute to outstanding projects improve environmental stewardship and advance a more sustainable and resilient future for ourmunities 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 ofpany through our ESOP a 401(k) plan withpany 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 employeeowners. We want to support you in reaching your career goals through tuition reimbursement professional development bonuses and attendance at conferences.
ESA has established multiple pay ranges tailored to the economic factors in the geographies in which ESA staff reside. For this position the range is approximately as listed based on our anticipated hiring locations as noted in the above job details. Actualpensation is determined by several factors including but not limited to an individual's related experience education skills and the city in which the applicant lives. CA Pay Transparency Clause
$116000 $140000 USD
Who We Are We are a 100% employeeowned 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 employeeowners 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 inperson ESA workrelated activity is required to submit their proof of vaccination status or have received an approved exemption and amodation in states which this applies. If you are an applicant with a disability that requires a reasonable amodation toplete 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 ing you may contact our Human Resources Department via email: humanresourcesesassoc for assistance.
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