Lead Consultant, Data Centers

Hybrid-based position in our New England office locations: Boston, Hartford, Portland, WestfordApplicants 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 roleAs 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.