Lead Consultant, Data Centers

Ramboll3; Portland (ME); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Ramboll seeks a Lead Consultant to join our CST team in New England, supporting data center clients with site selection, environmental and technical due diligence, and early-stage project planning. You will coordinate multidisciplinary inputs with project managers, technical specialists, and client teams.

Applicants should have a civil engineering background, strong communication skills, and experience in site development concepts, master plans, and permitting considerations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or related discipline; environmental engineering candidates should have civil/site development experience.
• Minimum of three years of relevant consulting experience, including civil/site development, due diligence, land development, or multidisciplinary project delivery.
• Experience supporting project management activities, including scope, schedule, budget, meeting coordination, action tracking, and deliverable management.
• Working knowledge of site development principles, including grading, drainage, stormwater management, utilities, earthwork, development constraints, permitting, and interpretation of conceptual site plans, Civil 3D drawings, surveys, and technical studies.
• Strong technical writing, organization, communication, problem-solving, and client-service skills; EIT or PE credentials preferred.

Responsibilities

• Support project managers in delivering complex data center due diligence assignments by assisting with scope, schedule, budget, staffing, deliverables, and client expectations.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary technical teams, maintain project schedules, track action items and information requests, and provide status updates to ensure timely project execution.
• Support client meetings and communications by preparing materials, documenting decisions, tracking follow-up actions, and contributing to progress updates.
• Review site development concepts, including master plans, test fits, civil/site constraints, utilities, grading, stormwater management, permitting considerations, and other technical factors to support due diligence recommendations.
• Prepare and quality-review client-ready reports, risk summaries, proposals, work plans, cost estimates, and technical deliverables while supporting multiple concurrent data center projects and site visits.

Skills

Technical writing

Organization

Communication

Problem solving

Client service

CAD

Civil 3D

Bluebeam

GIS

Data centers

EIT/PE

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

CAD

Civil 3D

Bluebeam

GIS

Job description

Hybrid-based position in our New England office locations: Boston, Hartford, Portland, Westford Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. No sponsorship is available for this position.

Are you eager to develop your excellence in an inclusive, collaborative, and empowering community? Are you excited about joining a company that strives to make a difference - for its employees, clients, and society? Are you motivated by creating sustainable change that benefits society and nature?

If this sounds like you, or you're curious to learn more, then this role could be the perfect opportunity. Join our Compliance Strategy and Transactions (CST) team and work with us to close the gap to a sustainable future.

Ramboll is seeking a full-time Lead Consultant to join our CST team and support data center clients with site selection, environmental and technical due diligence, civil/site development review, feasibility assessment, and early-stage project planning. The successful candidate will combine assistant project management capabilities with a civil engineering background to help coordinate multidisciplinary due diligence assignments and evaluate site development considerations. This position can be based in any of our New England offices: Boston, Hartford, Portland, or Westford. Our New England offices put you at a crossroads of vibrant cities, coastal and forested landscapes, and active communities tackling real-world environmental challenges.

At Ramboll, we will support and encourage your professional development, invite you to unfold your ingenuity and contribute to exciting and innovative projects, and work for sustainable change so people and nature can flourish. If this sounds like you, or you're curious to learn more, then this role could be the perfect opportunity. Join our team and work with us to close the gap to a sustainable future.

Your new role

As our new Lead Consultant, you will serve in an assistant project manager role for data center projects from early site screening through due diligence and conceptual planning. Working closely with project managers, technical specialists, and client teams, you will coordinate multidisciplinary inputs; track scope, schedule, budget, actions, and deliverables; and help maintain clear communication across the project team. You will also apply your civil engineering background to review conceptual master plans and evaluate site access, grading, stormwater, utilities, earthwork, and other site development considerations. To succeed in this role, you should be highly organized, technically grounded, detail-oriented, collaborative, and comfortable managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced consulting environment.

Your key responsibilities will be:

• Support project managers in delivering complex data center due diligence assignments by assisting with scope, schedule, budget, staffing, deliverables, and client expectations.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary technical teams, maintain project schedules, track action items and information requests, and provide status updates to ensure timely project execution.
• Support client meetings and communications by preparing materials, documenting decisions, tracking follow-up actions, and contributing to progress updates.
• Review site development concepts, including master plans, test fits, civil/site constraints, utilities, grading, stormwater management, permitting considerations, and other technical factors to support due diligence recommendations.
• Prepare and quality-review client-ready reports, risk summaries, proposals, work plans, cost estimates, and technical deliverables while supporting multiple concurrent data center projects and site visits.

About you

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, environmental science, geology, chemistry, physics, biology, or a related discipline; advanced degree preferred. Environmental engineering candidates should have demonstrated civil/site development or land development experience.
• Minimum of three years of relevant consulting experience, including civil/site development, due diligence, land development, or multidisciplinary project delivery.
• Experience supporting project management activities, including scope, schedule, budget, meeting coordination, action tracking, and deliverable management.
• Working knowledge of site development principles, including grading, drainage, stormwater management, utilities, earthwork, development constraints, permitting, and interpretation of conceptual site plans, Civil 3D drawings, surveys, and technical studies.
• Strong technical writing, organization, communication, problem-solving, and client-service skills; experience with CAD, Civil 3D, Bluebeam, GIS, data centers, mission-critical, industrial projects, and/or EIT or PE credentials preferred.

What we can offer you

• Interesting and diverse projects
• The opportunity to work with some of the best and brightest professionals in your field
• Flexible work arrangements
• Ge