He was a former secretary of the Department of Public Works, Transportation and Communications from 1970 to 1975, during the Marcos administration.

[1] Consunji enrolled at University of the Philippines in 1939 and took up civil engineering and graduated in 1946 and passed the board during the same year.

After graduation, Consunji worked as teacher in Bataan and later a concrete inspector for Kuenzle and Streiff.

Aside from these organizations, he was also the chairman of the Contractors Association, the Philippine Domestic Construction Board and the U. P. Engineering Research and Development Foundation.

His son Isidro Consunji is currently the president & chairman of DMCI Holdings, Incorporated.