Senior Climate Resilience Engineer / Planner

Herrera Environmental Consultants, Inc.; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Herrera Environmental Consultants, Inc. is seeking a Climate Resilience Engineer or Planner passionate about helping communities prepare for climate change. This role involves leading climate adaptation efforts and conducting vulnerability assessments, supporting meaningful projects related to ecological restoration and sustainable development.

Applicants should possess a bachelor's degree in civil or environmental engineering or related fields, along with at least 8 years of relevant professional experience. Join a collaborative team committed to making a positive environmental impact.

Qualifications

• 8 or more years of professional experience in climate resilience and adaptation planning.
• Expertise in environmental planning and watershed health.
• Experience with hazard mitigation and related project work.

Responsibilities

• Lead climate adaptation and resilience planning efforts.
• Conduct vulnerability assessments and risk analyses.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams on sustainable development.

Skills

Climate adaptation and resilience planning

Vulnerability assessments

Environmental planning

Project management

Client relationship management

Education

Bachelor's degree in civil, environmental, or water resources engineering

Bachelor's degree in environmental science or related field

Job description

We are Herrera

Envision yourself at a growing, employee‑owned company that inspires and empowers you to deliver your best performance while making a difference in the world.

We are Herrera, a science, planning, and design consulting firm dedicated to working with clients to develop holistic solutions that provide social and environmental benefit. We protect the environment every day by providing a diverse range of consulting services to cities, counties, state and federal agencies, Tribes, non‑profits, and private clients throughout Washington, Oregon, California, Montana, Wyoming, Alaska, and western Canada.

For over 40 years, Herrera has cultivated a collaborative, caring, and values‑driven culture that empowers our employee‑owners to achieve excellence while ensuring we have fun along the way. By providing our employee‑owners with the autonomy to pursue their professional interests and through encouraging them to grow, we benefit from high employee‑owner retention that contributes to our longstanding partnerships with clients.

Our Values

• Treat everyone with respect and dignity, always.
• Insist on integrity, objectivity, and social and environmental ethics in our work.
• Act as stewards of the environment upon which we depend.
• Research and outreach, learn and teach.
• Employee owners, employee leaders.

Your Opportunity

Are you passionate about helping communities and organizations prepare for climate change and build long term resilience? Do you enjoy working across disciplines to develop innovative, practical solutions to complex environmental and infrastructure challenges? Then this role is for you! As a Climate Resilience Engineer or Planner, you will join a collaborative team of engineers, planners, scientists, landscape architects, restoration specialists, geospatial analysts, and designers working to advance climate adaptation and resilience initiatives across the Pacific Northwest and beyond. This role supports a wide variety of meaningful projects related to climate vulnerability assessment, adaptation planning, watershed resilience, stormwater management, ecological restoration, and sustainable community development.

• Lead or support climate adaptation and resilience planning efforts
• Conduct vulnerability assessments, risk analyses, and adaptation planning
• Collaborate with stormwater, restoration, sustainable development, and geospatial teams
• Support proposals, project scoping, and business development efforts
• Build and maintain relationships with clients, agency partners, and collaborators
• Grow company‑wide climate‑related work and support strategic initiatives
• Manage projects, budgets, and schedules

Minimum Qualifications

Education, Experience, & Licensure/Certifications

• Bachelor's degree in civil, environmental, or water resources engineering; environmental science; or a related field
• 8 or more years of professional experience leading or supporting climate resilience and adaptation planning, hazard mitigation, and related work
• Expertise applying this expertise on projects related to environmental planning, watershed health (including green infrastructure/nature‑based solutions), shoreline health, infrastructure protection