Climate Adaptation Planner

Climate Adaptation Planner/Resilience Designer

Do you want to push the boundaries of your profession and develop your excellence in an open, collaborative, and empowering culture? Do you want to work on inspiring projects and innovative solutions that create a sustainable future and set the standard among our peers? Do you want to leave a positive impact on societies, companies, and people around the world, where both people and nature flourish?

If this sounds like you, or you’re curious to learn more, then this role could be the perfect opportunity. Join our Water team and work with us to close the gap to a sustainable future.

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.

Work at the heart of sustainable change

Ramboll is a global architecture, engineering, and consultancy company. 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. At Ramboll, our core strength is our people, and our history is rooted in a clear vision of how a responsible company should act.

Being open and curious is a cornerstone of our culture. We embrace an inclusive mindset that looks for fresh, diverse, and innovative perspectives. We respect, embrace, and invite diversity in all forms to actively cultivate an environment where everyone can flourish and realize their full potential.

Your new role

As our new Climate Adaptation Planner/ Designer, you will join a team dedicated to working with clients to deliver significant climate adaptation and resilience projects throughout the Northeast, Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions.

You will work alongside our planners, engineers, and scientists, including collaborating with our global team of experienced professionals, on a wide range of climate adaptation and resilience projects, from preliminary studies through design and construction, to develop sustainable solutions to help communities address the impacts of climate change.

You bring expertise in nature-based solutions and a belief in community-based planning.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Working in a multi-disciplinary market to develop climate resilience plans, with a focus on coastal and interior flood resilience, in close collaboration with project teams, clients, and community stakeholders.
• Developing schematic and conceptual designs for coastal and interior flood resilience solutions, alongside the guidance of Senior Landscape Architects, Planners, and Ecologists. Work will include detailed site design and contract documentation related to ecological restoration, public amenities, and nature-based solutions in coastal and inland environments.
• Creating and implementing community engagement plans, including stakeholder outreach, facilitation at public meetings, and creating graphics for public workshops.
• Contributing to the development of public-facing reports, including writing and graphics to convey technical concepts to a public audience, preparing maps, diagrams, and other graphics. You will be given the opportunity to present findings to various audiences to strengthen your technical and communication skills, recognize your contributions to the project, and to further develop your professional network and brand with stakeholders, clients, and project teams.
• Contributing to the development of climate risk and vulnerability assessments to address multiple hazards, including sea level rise, storm surge, cloudburst events, extreme heat, drought, and wildfires.

Your new team

Ramboll’s Water Infrastructure & Climate Adaptation practice is a multi-disciplinary team working across the Northeast, Mid Atlantic and Midwest regions. We provide solutions related to climate and…