Senior Industrial Decarbonization Consultant

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

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Role description:

Are you ready to take on a pivotal role in one of the most pressing challenges of our time?

Arcadis is looking for a passionate and driven Senior Industrial Decarbonization Consultant to join our U.S.-based Asset Advisory team and help shape the future of industrial decarbonization. In this role, you’ll collaborate with a diverse, multidisciplinary team and leverage one of the world’s best industrial client networks to deliver impactful solutions that enable energy-consuming organizations to unlock value on their journey towards net zero. This is an opportunity to leverage your expertise to deliver innovative solutions that reduce carbon emissions, improve financial performance, and strengthen resilience for industrial businesses navigating the transition to net zero.  

As a Senior Consultant, you’ll lead projects and provide technical expertise to design and implement actionable decarbonization strategies for global industrial clients across sectors such as life sciences, food and beverage, mining, and more. You will focus on reducing energy consumption, replacing fossil fuels, and integrating innovative, energy-efficient technologies tailored to specific client needs. By analyzing processes, equipment, and site-specific challenges—including permitting requirements, grid capacity, and market constraints—you will create solutions that balance technical feasibility, economic outcomes, and environmental goals.

This role offers a unique opportunity to make a meaningful impact by helping industrial organizations navigate their energy transition with practical, achievable strategies. You’ll work closely with clients and internal teams across diverse cultures and geographies, contributing to Arcadis’ global leadership in industrial sustainability.

The ideal candidate is a highly organized self-starter with strong consultancy skills and an engineering background. You bring proven experience delivering decarbonization solutions for industrial manufacturing clients with large energy-consuming sites and thrive in collaborative, fast-paced environments. This hybrid position is based out of one of Arcadis’ U.S. offices, such as Washington, D.C.

Join us to drive change, shape sustainable solutions, and work alongside a team committed to creating a better future for industry and the planet. 

Role accountabilities:

 The candidate should demonstrate experience in:  

• Developing decarbonization solutions: Lead the creation of site-specific decarbonization strategies and solutions, working closely with clients to identify opportunities that contribute to corporate key performance indicators (KPIs) and outline actionable pathways toward net zero.
• Pre-site analysis and preparation: Collaborate with the design teams to request, process, and analyze key site energy and process information before conducting site visits.
• On-site assessments: Play a key role in leading detailed assessments of energy, utility, and process systems.
• Develop energy-saving solutions: Work with cross-functional engineering and sales teams to identify and develop energy efficiency and replacement solutions  across  process, thermal, cooling, compressed air, and water systems.
• Address local market considerations: Collaborate with permitting, grants, and incentives teams to identify local market opportunities, including CAPEX/OPEX rebates, and incorporate these into  transition planning.
• Economic and carbon impact analysis: Review and prepare, in collaboration with our engineering teams, CAPEX estimates  for decarbonization measures with the best ROI, perform cost-benefit analyses, and develop sophisticated models such as marginal abatement cost curves and total cost of ownership assessments.
• Deliver decarbonization roadmaps: Develop and present site-specific net zero/decarbonization roadmaps, including all the identified decarbonization solutions, to site and corporate client teams, ensuring actionable and impactful recommendations.
• Contribute to business development: Collaborate with global engineering teams to contribute to proposals for new projects in strategy and implementation phases s
• Drive proposition growth: Proactively grow the industrial decarbonization proposition by w