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 interested in using your coastal/nearshore skills and expertise to help restore and better manage Pacific Northwest beaches and bluffs? Do you enjoy solving complex environmental management problems and evaluating coastal hazards and impacts of sea level rise? Then this role is for you.

Herrera seeks a scientist, planner, or engineer in the early stages of their career with an interest in coastal geomorphology/geology, applied oceanography, coastal ecology and/or engineering, as well as experience evaluating climate change and sea level rise.

As a Coastal Scientist, Planner, or Engineer, you will step into a newly created role in the Coastal arm of our team of Restoration scientists and engineers. In this role we will count on you to provide support for a range of coastal and climate projects throughout the Pacific Northwest and beyond, including:

• Sea level rise assessment and management
• Bluff sediment supply
• Debris removal and other efforts to naturalize beaches
• Beach restoration feasibility assessments
• GIS/geospatial analysis
• Hydrodynamic and wave modeling
• Alternatives to erosion control (shoreline armor)
• Nearshore habitat assessments

Other duties you will be responsible for:

• Providing field work support and collecting data on nearshore characteristics relevant to restoration design using standard analytical methods applied in coastal environments
• Interpreting coastal change data
• Describing climate related hazards and corresponding impacts to infrastructure
• Collaborating and supporting restoration feasibility assessments, data synthesis and report writing
• Developing, applying, and evaluating models to aid in understanding baseline and future conditions in wave and tidally dominated coastal environments
• Assisting with coastal restoration project design plans

Minimum Qualifications

Education, Experience, & Licensure/Certifications

• 0+ years of professional experience
• Bachelor's degree in environmental science/ecology, geology, civil, coastal or ocean engineering, or oceanography; or a master's degree in environmental science/ecology, geology, planning, civil, coastal or ocean engineering or oceanography, if undergraduate degree was not in civil engineering

Knowledge, Skill