Coastal Design Engineer - Shoreline & Resilience

JMT; Charleston (SC); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

JMT is seeking a coastal engineering professional to support planning, analysis, design, permitting, and construction-related tasks under senior guidance. You will apply civil and coastal engineering principles to evaluate shoreline, waterfront, flood resilience, and coastal infrastructure projects.

Responsibilities include handling survey data, performing hydrologic and coastal modeling, preparing calculations and drawings, and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in civil engineering from an ABET-accredited program.
• 0-3 years of relevant engineering experience, including internships, cooperative education, research, or project-based coursework.
• Proficiency in CAD, GIS, numerical modeling, and other discipline-specific software.

Responsibilities

• Analyze survey data, maps, drawings, aerial imagery, bathymetric data, tide and wave records to support engineering assignments.
• Assist with coastal processes evaluations, including water levels, waves, currents, sediment transport, erosion, flooding, and shoreline change.
• Support the planning and design of coastal and waterfront projects such as shoreline stabilization, living shorelines, beaches and dunes, seawalls, bulkheads, revetments, docks, piers, marinas, and flood-resilience improvements.
• Assist with setup, execution, quality review, and documentation of hydrologic, hydraulic, coastal, or numerical modeling analyses.
• Prepare or update engineering calculations, figures, maps, design drawings, technical memoranda, reports, permit exhibits, specifications, quantity estimates, and construction cost estimates.
• Use CAD, GIS, spreadsheet, and discipline-specific engineering software to support analyses and design development.
• Participate in field investigations, site observations, data collection, construction observations, and documentation of existing conditions.
• Coordinate with civil, structural, geotechnical, environmental, survey, and permitting staff as part of multidisciplinary project teams.
• Perform work in accordance with client requirements, applicable codes and standards, established quality procedures, project budgets, and schedules.
• Communicate technical information clearly and seek guidance when assumptions, data limitations, or project risks require senior review.

Skills

CAD Software

GIS

Communication

Team Collaboration

Field Work

Microsoft Office

Education

ABET-accredited Civil Eng

Tools

AutoCAD

Civil 3D

ArcGIS

MATLAB

Python

Job description

JMT is seeking a coastal engineering professional to support planning, analysis, design, permitting, and construction-related tasks under senior guidance. You will apply civil and coastal engineering principles to evaluate shoreline, waterfront, flood resilience, and coastal infrastructure projects.

Responsibilities include handling survey data, performing hydrologic and coastal modeling, preparing calculations and drawings, and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams.