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 our collaborative, inclusive, diverse, and empowering culture at Ramboll? When you start with Ramboll, you’ll be joining a company that strives to make a difference – for our employees, clients, and society.
If this sounds like you, or you’re curious to learn more, this role could be the perfect opportunity. Join our Health Sciences team and work with us to close the gap to a sustainable future.
Your new role
As our new Consultant or Lead Consultant, you will be working in a challenging and variable environment that will include detail-oriented independent work and possible client interactions under supervision. Projects include assisting with human health risk assessments for hazardous waste sites, Brownfield redevelopment sites, ambient air releases, and indoor air sources, as well as product safety evaluations and litigation support.
Your key responsibilities will be:
- Compiling, organizing, and managing environmental data and databases
- Performing statistical and geospatial analyses of environmental and other data
- Evaluating the environmental fate and transport of chemicals
- Estimating human exposures to chemicals in different environmental media (e.g., air, soil, sediment, fish tissue, produce, water, etc.) and calculating health risks
- Reviewing and summarizing regulatory guidance, literature documents, and technical reports related to human exposures, chemical toxicity, risk assessment, and chemical fate and transport; extracting relevant data and interpreting results
- Conducting environmental justice analysis and associated document and data review.
- Conducting product safety related exposure and risk assessment
- Assisting with preparation of technical reports, scope of work, proposals, and presentations including development of summary tables and figures, composing narrative summaries, and performing quality assurance/quality control of work products
Your new team
You will be a part of Ramboll’s Health Science Spearhead’s Risk Assessment and Community Health group in the firm’s Oakland, CA office. Our team is innovative, international, and supportive. You will collaborate actively with your colleagues in the Health Science Spearhead as well as the Air Science group and Site Solutions group to play a critical role in defining and delivering on challenging and interesting projects that involve multiple clients and geographic regions.
About you
From the moment you start at Ramboll, we will support your personal and professional development, we want you to continue to grow with our company! While we look forward to supporting your continued learning and development, for this role we have identified some qualifications, skills, and capabilities that will set you up for success.
These include:
- Master’s or PhD degree in Environmental Science or Engineering, Environmental Health Science, Environmental Toxicology; would consider Industrial Hygiene or Toxicology. Experience in the consulting sector would be advantageous but is not essential.
- Exemplary individuals with a bachelor’s degree and related experience of 3+ years will be considered. Preferred BS in Environmental Science or Engineering, Environmental Health Science or Management; would consider Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Toxicology, or Biology.
- 2+ years of chemistry background are required.
Desired skills/experience:
- Proficiency with MS Office
- Experience with MS Access or other relational databases for managing, querying, and analyzing environmental data
- Statistical analysis or data analysis capabilities in MS Excel, and/or R
- Experience with Python or SQL
- Ability to review and follow detailed risk assessment guidance documents
- Demonstrated strong quantitative and problem-solving skills
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Detail oriented and strong sense of responsibility
- GIS capability is a plus
- Knowledge and previous experience with environmental justice is a plus, but not required.
Ready to join us?
Please submit your application. Be sure to include all relevant documents including your CV, cover letter, etc.
Ramboll in the Americas
Founded in Denmark, Ramboll is a foundation-owned people company. Ramboll has thousands of experts working across more than 70 offices in the Americas, delivering innovative solutions within Environment & Health, Water, Energy, and Planning & Urban Design. We invite you to contribute to a sustainable future working in an open, collaborative, and empowering company. Combining local experience with global knowledge, we together shape the societies of tomorrow.
An equal opportunity employer
Equality, diversity, and inclusion is at the heart of what we do. At Ramboll, we believe that diversity is a strength and that different experiences and perspectives are essential to creating truly sustainable societies. We invite applications from candidates of all backgrounds, regardless of age, disability or medical condition, gender identity, marriage and domestic partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, ancestry, or national origin, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation, military service and veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. Ramboll wants to ensure opportunities are accessible to candidates with disabilities. Please reach out to our recruitment team to discuss any adjustments that you might require during the application process.
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