Sean Flynn, PE
“I am passionate about the work I do because I know that as a group – engineers, surveyors, planners, landscape architects, and the people we work with, we are improving the quality of life and extending the lives of everyone that our work touches. We don’t save lives in the sense that a surgeon repairs a failing heart and gives someone a few more years to live, our contribution is far more widespread than that. We provide cleaner water and effective sanitation, reducing diseases and adding years to people’s lives. We provide safer ways to get from Point A to Point B, reducing accidents and deaths that would have otherwise occurred. We provide places for people to enjoy, improving their quality of life. It’s difficult to quantify the impact that we have within that frame of reference, but rest assured that we know the impact exists. We don’t do it for recognition or for awards or to have buildings and bridges named after us. I do it so that when I lay my head down at night, I know in a way that only matters to me, that I have done my part to leave the world a better place than it was before I arrived – and that is something worth being passionate about.”
Sean is the Regional Director and Civil Manager for the Myrtle Beach office. He joined Thomas & Hutton in 2010, bringing along 14 years of project management experience with projects ranging in variety from small capital improvement projects to large-scale development within the coastal areas of South Carolina, specifically along the Grand Strand. A licensed Professional Engineer, Sean has worked on projects for small municipalities, large local governments, and private entities that includes project management, grantsmanship, site development, water and wastewater, stormwater drainage, transportation, hydraulic and hydrologic analyses, and construction management. Sean earned his Master’s in Civil Engineering with a focus on Water Resources and Environmental Engineering and his Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of South Carolina. He is currently the Chairman of the Board for the Alliance for Economic Development for Georgetown County, is an active member of the South Carolina Economic Developers Association, and has previously served on the Georgetown County Water & Sewer District Board of Directors and the Myrtle Beach Regional Economic Development Corporation Board of Directors.
