Senior Forensic Engineer
The Vertex Companies LLC
Coastal Scientist / Engineer
Michael Baker International
full-time
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Location: California • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $97,593 - $153,000 per year
Job Level
SeniorLead
Tech Stack
Jenkins
About the role
- Work alongside Dr. Scott Jenkins in the San Diego office, learning under his tutelage and assisting with workload and succession
- Join a high-performing team providing multi-disciplinary numerical modeling and engineering solutions to coastal engineering and flood risk challenges
- Lead a multi-disciplinary modeling and data solutions team and develop innovative initiatives and products in flood risk
- Provide coastal engineering design (shore protection, nature-based solutions, revetments, scour protection), environmental restoration, and dredging/navigation project support
- Contribute to proposal writing, business development, client interaction, project budgeting, scheduling, and financial management
- Perform numerical modeling, technical analysis, and prepare engineering reports and documentation
Requirements
- Proposal writing, assistance with business development
- Staff supervision, recruitment, and training
- Project budgeting, scheduling, financial management, and client interaction
- Organizing and interpreting engineering data, engineering reports and technical documentation
- Engineering design of coastal structures (shore protection structures including breakwaters, nature-based solutions, revetments, scour protection, etc.)
- Environmental restoration (nature-based solutions such as living shorelines)
- Dredging/navigation projects
- Strong analytical and communication skills
- Demonstrated ability to lead coastal design tasks or projects
- Demonstrated expertise in design and construction principles of coastal structures
- Proven ability to work collaboratively on multi-disciplinary teams
- B.S. Degree in Engineering or related discipline
- Postgraduate in Coastal Engineering or related field (preferred)
- 10+ years of experience
- Current registration as Licensed Professional Engineer (PE) or ability to obtain within 1 year
- Demonstrated technical writing skill
- Preferred: Providing technical leadership to national coastal engineering projects involving flood risk, numerical modeling, design, and mapping
- Preferred: Conducting numerical modeling using ADCIRC, Delft3D, Delft3D-FM, SWAN, XBeach, etc.
- Preferred: Working with open-source products to develop numerical tools and solutions
- Preferred: Performing statistical and probabilistic risk analysis associated with coastal hazards
- Preferred: Providing subject matter expertise to FEMA coastal flood risk studies
- Preferred: Background in Fluid Mechanics, Coastal Processes and Coastal Models, CFD, and EPA Mixing Models
- Preferred: Experience in SolidWorks 3-D CAD Modeling
