Senior Lead Consultant, Impact Assessment

Company Description:

Ramboll is a global architecture, engineering, and consultancy company. As a foundation-owned people company, founded in Denmark, we believe that the purpose of sustainable change is to create a thriving world for both nature and people. So, that’s where we start – and how we work. Our history is rooted in a clear vision of how a responsible company should act and being open and curious is a cornerstone of our culture. Ramboll in the Americas has thousands of experts working across more than 70 offices. Ramboll experts deliver innovative solutions across Environment & Health, Water, Energy, and Planning & Urban Design.

Job Description:

Remote-based position anywhere in the U.S.

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. No sponsorship is available for this position. 

Must be a U.S. citizen

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Are you excited about understanding, interpreting, and navigating complex policy issues? Are you motivated by creating sustainable change that benefits society and nature? Are you a curious and open-minded person?

If this sounds like you, or you’re curious to learn more, then this role could be the perfect opportunity. Join our site solutions team as our new Senior Lead Consultant, Impact Assessment and work with us to close the gap to a sustainable future.

Your new role

We are seeking an experienced engineer to lead Blast Risk Desktop Reviews and, as needed, Blast Risk Modeling, for complex industrial and energy infrastructure projects. The role centers on gathering and analyzing available data to identify potential blast and fire hazards around prospective sites, quantify likelihood and consequences through a structured risk matrix, and recommend practical mitigation measures. The engineer must be appropriately licensed and credentialed in one or more states. Candidate will need to be a U.S. Citizen.

Your key responsibilities will be:

  • Lead the desktop review for blast and fire hazards using authoritative sources, existing reports, and geospatial datasets to assess blast risks within the site boundary and surrounding properties.
  • Identify and map all properties or infrastructure that could present a blast hazard affecting the subject site. Examples include natural gas and oil transmission pipelines, fuel depots and tank farms, petrochemical facilities, and oil refineries. Work with a project-specific GIS team to provide mapping for the project.
  • Determine proximity to conventional and nuclear power stations and outline potential emergency exclusion zones or necessary setbacks that could affect operations or access.
  • Quantify risk by calculating impact radii and return periods for potential blast events or pipeline ruptures, and by evaluating site vulnerabilities, secondary hazards, likelihood, and consequences of various blast events.
  • Perform blast risk modeling as needed and develop mitigation recommendations and describe residual consequences with mitigations in place.

Qualifications:

About You

  • Professional Engineer in an engineering discipline, with experience performing blast and/or process safety assessments for energy or industrial facilities.
  • Working knowledge of quantitative risk assessment methods and risk matrices for explosion and fire scenarios.

Preferred skills

  • Theoretical and practical knowledge of explosion and combustion mechanics and impact assessment, and ability to calculate frequency-consequence calculations, ignition-probability correlations, and return periods for various hazards.
  • Demonstrated ability to source and interpret geospatial and regulatory datasets for pipelines, petrochemical operations and heavy industry, and knowledge of GIS and CAD workflows for hazard mapping and presentation quality figures.
  • Experience with hazard identification and consequence modeling tools and methods used in blast and fire engineering.
  • Excellent technical writing and stakeholder communication skills with the ability to translate complex analysis into practical mitigation plans.
  • Work seamlessly with multidisciplinary technical teams and agencies throughout due diligence and permitting, and mentor junior staff.

Additional Information:

What we can offer you

  • Investment in your development
  • Leaders you can count on, guided by our Leadership Principles
  • Being valued for the unique person you are
  • Never being short of inspiration from colleagues, clients, and projects
  • The long-term thinking of a foundation-owned company

Ready to join us?

Please submit your application with your up-to-date CV. We invite diversity in all its forms and encourage applicants from all groups to apply.

Thank you for taking the time to apply! We look forward to rec

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