Environmental Project Manager - Global Offshore Wind

Job Description

Are you ready to join a global consultancy of 17,500 professionals - the 'Partner for sustainable change' - with offshore wind at its core? Do you want to collaborate with 900+ wind experts and 450+ Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) practitioners across 15+ countries? Have you reached your ceiling in a regional role and are looking to bring that learning to the global market? If this sounds like you, or you’re curious to learn more, then this role could be the perfect opportunity.

Your new role

Our global Project Managers will focus on securing and delivering consents for complex offshore wind projects, primarily in local and emerging Ramboll markets, ensuring efficient, consistent delivery and innovative solutions for project success.

Your key responsibilities will be:

Delivering outstanding client facing solutions:

Forming the main part of the role, acting as Project Manager, Project Director or strategic advisor for the environmental/ consenting elements of key strategic international offshore wind projects including:

• Build and maintain strong client relationships, expand networks, and identify new project opportunities.
• Support strategic decision-making and help projects see ‘the bigger picture’
• Manage complex, multidisciplinary teams to deliver and exceed expectations
• Apply effective project management practices, including clear roles, resourcing, budget management, baselines, and change control.
• Ensure global efficiencies and consistency in templates, processes, resources, and lessons learned.
• Troubleshoot and develop practical solutions for complex challenges.
• Support project delivery through resourcing, upskilling, and capability building.

In addition, supporting our one stop shop SectorWind unit to deliver:

• Early feasibility and bid support packages to our clients globally
• Advice on the environmental and consenting  elements of our due diligence work

Global growth- Strategy and Governance:

• Support Global Offshore Wind Lead (Environment) in defining and executing international growth strategies
• Lead/support growth in emerging markets through strategy, client development, and recruitment
• Lead/support global governance of offshore wind projects, including opportunity selection and conflict resolution
• Collaborate with regional teams to recruit and upskill staff for offshore wind projects in target geographies.

Pipeline Growth:

• Lead/support strategic offshore wind bids to maximize success in quality, pricing, timeliness, value proposition, and international insights.
• Manage key client relationships to ensure performance and expand opportunities.
• Identify scope growth opportunities in existing projects.
• Leverage personal network to secure new opportunities.
• Strengthen internal connections to access opportunities and support the ‘One Sector Wind’ offer.
• Promote the Ramboll brand in the offshore wind space through conferences, industry groups, articles, and social media to enhance our profile across services.

Your new team

This is an exciting time to join a fast paced, growing team where you will have the opportunity to not only develop your EIA and consent project management experience but to play a leading role in shaping the future direction of offshore wind and the team in Ramboll.

This role is part of an exciting new team, recently approved by Ramboll’s Executive Board to superboost our global growth in offshore wind. This team will support our global SectorWind organisation of 900 wind experts to provide a holistic one-stop shop services including advisory, engineering and environmental to our offshore wind clients through the project lifecycle. This division have worked on over 70% of the world’s offshore wind projects across a variety of scope across 15 countries.

Your team will be part of our Global Impact Assessment Spearhead, established to drive further growth and specialisation in Impact Assessment globally, building on our existing successes through a continued focus on national impact assessment work, alongside targeting large, strategic projects – no matter where these occur, within our geographic strongholds or beyond. This team comprises over 450 environmental impact practitioners located across Europe, APAC and the US. Our team is vibrant, innovative, supportive and highly collaborative across geographic borders and departments. 

You will be joining a company with:

• Offshore wind is a strategic priority at the highest level of the organization
• A global footprint supporting a diverse portfolio of offshore wind projects and strong growth potential
• A market-leading position, delivering comp