Coastal Marine Engineer

Want to work with the most sought-after minds and most-talked about projects? Your skills in delivering multidisciplinary projects and championing technical standards might just make you our new Coastal/Marine Engineer.

**Here at Buro Happold, expect the exceptional.**

From the projects you will work on to the clients we work with. From career-defining opportunities to an inclusive and diverse practice where we all contribute to a more equitable world. From our reputation to our relationships. Wherever your Buro Happold career takes you, it’ll be anything but ordinary.

**Your next role**

Join us and be surrounded by exceptional opportunities in an environment alive with innovation and possibility. Your new team has a willingness and curiosity to see possibility and potential in everything - from the most iconic projects to our everyday conversations.

**Your key duties**
- Project Management: Lead and manage coastal and marine engineering projects from concept to completion, ensuring they meet quality standards, budgetary constraints, and client timelines.
- Technical Design: Develop innovative and sustainable solutions for marine structures, coastal protection, and related infrastructure, considering factors such as wave action, tidal forces, sea level rise as well as environmental impact.
- Feasibility Studies: Conduct thorough site assessments to identify potential risks and opportunities on waterfront developments and marina projects.
- Collaboration: Work closely with multidisciplinary teams, including architects, environmental specialists, ecologists, and planners, to integrate coastal engineering solutions into broader projects.
- Client Engagement: Build and maintain strong relationships with clients, understanding their needs and providing expert advice to achieve project objectives.
- Regulatory Compliance: Ensure compliance with local and international regulations, codes, and standards relevant to coastal and marine engineering.
- Innovation: Stay abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in coastal engineering to drive innovation and continuous improvement in our design and planning services.
- Sustainability: Challenge the status quo and promote eco-friendly solutions considering lower carbon footprint and ecological enhancements.

**Your skills and experience**
- Bachelor's degree in Coastal Engineering, Civil Engineering, or a related field. Master's degree is a plus.
- Proven experience in coastal and marine engineering, with a focus on design and project management.
- Familiarity with relevant software tools for coastal modelling and design is recommended (SWAN, MIKE 21, Telemac, Delft 3D, Civil 3D, Google Sketch-up, etc.).
- Good knowledge of marine structural design is advisable.
- Strong understanding of environmental and ecological considerations in coastal engineering projects.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Professional engineering license or equivalent certification. Chartership is a plus.
- Previous experience working in the Middle East is desirable.

**What we offer you**
- A strong commitment to your continuous development. Whatever stage in your career, we have a learning and development programme that will enable and empower you
- Entitlement to two memberships to professional bodies or subscriptions
- An international culture that wherever your career takes you at Buro Happold, you won’t be far from the exceptional
- Dynamic team fostering growth mindset
- Attractive salary and benefits package

**A place for everyone**

Our exceptional portfolio of projects is the result of the diversity of thought, identities, backgrounds and experiences that shape us. Appreciating each other’s differences is key, we want employees to feel they don’t have to mask elements of their identity to thrive.

We are working to change the lack of representation of marginalised groups in the built environment and are particularly keen to hear from anyone who feels they are underrepresented in the industry. We have much to learn from one another. Embracing difference allows us to develop the most innovative and elegant solutions.