Senior Coastal Engineer – Lead Coastal Projects (Hybrid)

Stantec Australia Pty Ltd; Perth, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working arrangements

Job summary

Stantec Australia Pty Ltd is seeking a Senior or Principal Coastal Engineer to join our Coastal team across Australia with bases in Perth, Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane. The role offers flexible work arrangements including work from home.

This is an opportunity to lead complex coastal projects, provide technical leadership and build client relationships while advancing your career within a multidisciplinary consultancy.

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualifications in Engineering, ideally with a Coastal Engineering focus.
• Significant experience in coastal engineering, with expertise across coastal processes, infrastructure assessment and engineering design.
• Desirable experience in coastal and marine data collection, environmental assessments and coastal structure condition assessments.
• Strong knowledge of coastal and ocean modelling tools and understanding of their applications.
• Strong data analysis and post-processing skills using MATLAB, Python or R.
• Proven experience managing complex coastal engineering projects and multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong commercial capability: developing client relationships, winning work and preparing proposals.
• Experience in assessing and designing coastal structures (seawalls, breakwaters, groynes).
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, technical writing and communication skills.
• Ability to provide technical guidance and collaborate across multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Leading the delivery of complex coastal engineering projects with technical excellence.
• Leading coastal process investigations (hydrodynamics, waves, sediment transport, water quality).
• Managing coastal infrastructure projects from feasibility through delivery (assessments, design, dredging, sediment management).
• Providing technical leadership and specialist coastal engineering advice to clients and teams.
• Overseeing numerical modelling of coastal processes to inform design and planning.
• Leading proposals, identifying opportunities and growing coastal capability.
• Building and maintaining strong client relationships and stakeholder engagement.
• Collaborating with ports, maritime, water, marine science and other disciplines.
• Undertaking site inspections and fieldwork to support project delivery.

Skills

Coastal engineering

Project management

Client relationships

Data analysis

Technical writing

Communication

Education

Engineering degree with coastal focus

Tools

Delft3D

LITPACK

MIKE

SWAN

MATLAB

Python

R

Job description

Stantec Australia Pty Ltd is seeking a Senior or Principal Coastal Engineer to join our Coastal team across Australia with bases in Perth, Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane. The role offers flexible work arrangements including work from home.

This is an opportunity to lead complex coastal projects, provide technical leadership and build client relationships while advancing your career within a multidisciplinary consultancy.