Principal, Human Health Risk Assessment, Community Health Impact Assessment, Emerging Contaminants

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.

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.

Arlington, VA;
Princeton, NJ;
Boston, MA;
Seattle, WA;
Portland, OR;
Oakland/San Francisco, CA;
Irvine/Los Angeles, CA. Remote will be considered.

Are you passionate about helping clients solve complex environmental and public health challenges? Do you thrive at the intersection of science, strategy, and business development? Are you excited to work with leading experts to develop solutions that protect communities while supporting sustainable development?

Join Ramboll's Global Health Sciences team as a senior contributor and play a key leadership role in growing one of the industry's premier environmental health consulting practices.

As our new Principal, you will lead business development, client relationships, and technical delivery focused on human health risk assessment, community health, environmental health sciences, and emerging environmental challenges. You will help clients navigate complex regulatory, legal, and stakeholder environments while building trusted advisor relationships with industry, government, and legal-sector clients.

This role combines technical excellence, strategic leadership, and commercial responsibility. You will work closely with clients and colleagues across Health Sciences, Water, Site Solutions, Sustainability, and Environment & Health practices to deliver integrated solutions that support sound, science-based decision making.

• Human health risk assessment
• Air toxics and multi-pathway risk evaluations
• Community health and health impact assessment
• Environmental justice
• Environmental health and exposure science
• PFAS, microplastics and other emerging contaminants
• Toxicology
• Strategic risk management
• Expert services and litigation support

• Develop and expand client relationships across industrial, commercial, government, and legal sectors
• Identify and pursue new business opportunities aligned with practice growth objectives
• Lead proposal development, strategic pursuits, and major client accounts
• Serve as a trusted advisor to clients navigating regulatory and public health challenges
• Collaborate across Ramboll's global network to bring integrated solutions to clients

• Direct complex risk assessment and community health projects
• Provide technical leadership and quality assurance on key deliverables
• Communicate scientific findings to technical, regulatory, legal, and community audiences
• Support clients during stakeholder engagement, regulatory interactions, and public meetings
• Advance innovative approaches for emerging environmental and public health issues

• Publish technical articles and present at scientific conferences
• Participate in professional societies, industry groups, and regulatory forums
• Help shape Ramboll's market presence in environmental health sciences
• Contribute to the development of new service offerings and strategic growth initiatives

• Mentor and develop junior and mid-level consultants
• Foster a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performing…