Principal, Site Investigation and Remediation

Company Description Founded in Denmark, Ramboll is a foundation-owned people company. We have more than 18,000 experts working across our global operations in 35 countries with thousands of experts working across 70 offices in the Americas. Our experts are leaders in their fields, developing and delivering innovative solutions in diverse markets including Buildings, Transport, Planning & Urban Design, Water, Environment & Health, Energy, and Management Consulting.

We invite you to contribute to a more sustainable future working in an open, collaborative, and empowering company. Combining local experience with global knowledge, we together shape the societies of tomorrow.

Job Description

Location:

Princeton, NJAre you a senior consultant ready to build a book, grow a market, and lead a team? We’re hiring a Principal Engineer / Environmental Scientist / Geologist with an LSRP license to team with us to grow our office located in the vibrant, historical college town of Princeton, New Jersey. The Princeton location provides easy rail and highway access to New York City and Philadelphia, making it a great setting both for employees and for client meetings.

This is a growth role for a seller-doer leader: you’ll set the go-to-market approach, open doors with
   new and existing clients and deliver high-impact work—supported by strong technical resources and collaborative colleagues.

We’re looking for an established Principal with 20+ years of consulting experience, and a track record of winning and expanding client work who has demonstrated experience as a New Jersey LSRP, including providing technical and regulatory guidance to clients in the role of a retained LSRP, preparing and submitting Industrial Site Recovery Act (ISRA) and Spill Act associated documents, forms, reports, and applications, and leading technical consultations with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP).Your

new role As a Principal, you’ll serve as a trusted advisor and market-facing growth leader—owning priority accounts, developing new client relationships, and building a durable pipeline for the region. You’ll pair technical credibility with commercial leadership to help clients manage environmental risk, meet regulatory obligations, and advance sustainability goals across sectors such as manufacturing, commercial/industrial, government, energy, legal and financial services, and insurance.

Your key responsibilities will be:
• Drive growth: build and execute a regional client development plan; cultivate relationships and open new opportunities.
   
• Win work: qualify leads, shape scopes, price strategically, and lead proposals/interviews through close.
   
• Grow accounts: deepen trusted-advisor relationships, identify cross-sell opportunities, and expand multi-service programs.
   
• Lead delivery: oversee complex engagements (scope/schedule/budget/quality) and bring the right experts to solve client challenges.
   
• Build the team: mentor and develop staff, support recruiting, and create repeatable delivery and sales playbooks.
   
• Represent the firm: engage with clients, regulators, and industry groups; speak/publish as appropriate to raise visibility.

About youFrom the moment you start at Ramboll, we will support your personal and professional development so that you can continue to grow with the 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:
• 20+ years in environmental consulting with progressive leadership responsibility.
   
• Business development success—evidence of consistently winning work (e.g., annual sales targets achieved,…