Senior Lead Consultant, Impact Assessment

Remote-based position anywhere in the U.S.

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. No sponsorship is available for this position.  Must be a U.S. citizen and have a Professional Engineer license.  

Are you excited about understanding, interpreting, and navigating complex policy issues? Are you motivated by creating sustainable change that benefits society and nature? Are you a curious and open-minded person?

If this sounds like you, or you’re curious to learn more, then this role could be the perfect opportunity. Join our site solutions team as our new Senior Lead Consultant, Impact Assessment and work with us to close the gap to a sustainable future.

Your new role

We are seeking an experienced engineer to lead Blast Risk Desktop Reviews and, as needed, Blast Risk Modeling, for complex industrial and energy infrastructure projects. The role centers on gathering and analyzing available data to identify potential blast and fire hazards around prospective sites, quantify likelihood and consequences through a structured risk matrix, and recommend practical mitigation measures. The engineer must be appropriately licensed and credentialed in one or more states. Candidate will need to be a U.S. Citizen.

Your key responsibilities will be:

• Lead the desktop review for blast and fire hazards using authoritative sources, existing reports, and geospatial datasets to assess blast risks within the site boundary and surrounding properties.
• Identify and map all properties or infrastructure that could present a blast hazard affecting the subject site. Examples include natural gas and oil transmission pipelines, fuel depots and tank farms, petrochemical facilities, and oil refineries. Work with a project-specific GIS team to provide mapping for the project.
• Determine proximity to conventional and nuclear power stations and outline potential emergency exclusion zones or necessary setbacks that could affect operations or access.
• Quantify risk by calculating impact radii and return periods for potential blast events or pipeline ruptures, and by evaluating site vulnerabilities, secondary hazards, likelihood, and consequences of various blast events.
• Perform blast risk modeling as needed and develop mitigation recommendations and describe residual consequences with mitigations in place.