Consents Manager

Join us in making a significant impact on the UK's renewable energy landscape and contribute to a sustainable future. Be part of a team that's driving change and innovation in the energy sector!

Activities

Job Opportunity: Consents Manager

Are you passionate about renewable energy and eager to make a significant impact? Join our team!

Key Responsibilities:

• Coordinate Planning Applications: Lead the preparation, revision, and submission of planning applications for TCPA, DNS, and DCO projects, ensuring compliance with local laws and regulations.
• Consents Strategy Management: Develop and maintain a comprehensive consents strategy, addressing key activities, project interfaces, environmental commitments, consent conditions, risks, and mitigation options.
• Collaborative Teamwork: Work closely with the Project Development team, Technical team, consultants, and legal advisors to support and coordinate consenting activities, including stakeholder engagement and consultation during development and construction phases.
• Stakeholder Management: Proactively manage relationships with key internal and external stakeholders, including regulators and consultees.
• Community Engagement: Support the consenting process by coordinating consultants and attending community engagement events.
• Programme and Budget Input: Contribute to the consents programme, budget, and risk management in collaboration with the project development team and other stakeholders.
• Consultant Management: Oversee specialist consultants and advisors, including defining scopes of work, appointing contractors, and interpreting advice received.
• Quality Assurance: Conduct quality checks on documents to be issued to third parties.
• Notification and Coordination: Ensure relevant parties are informed about project consenting requirements for land activities, site visits, and surveys.
• H3SE Compliance: Demonstrate exemplary behavior regarding H3SE and implement H3SE rules and requirements within your area of responsibility.

Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate - Must possess a broad range of planning and consenting skills, along with significant experience relevant to onshore renewables development, including project management, consent, and contract management skills.

Key Skills, Knowledge, and Experience:

• A degree qualification in Planning, Environmental, or Geographical studies, as well as familiarity with the UK onshore renewables programme, are essential.
• Demonstrable experience in the renewables or other relevant infrastructure sectors.
• Deep knowledge and experience of onshore planning/consenting/TCPA, DNS, DCO activities relevant to onshore renewables farms.
• Ability to challenge the status quo, identify solutions, and influence stakeholders to enable successful implementation.
• Project management skillsets.
• Strong initiative and the ability to proactively identify required tasks.
• An organized approach to working, task prioritization, and time management.
• Ideally, established positive relationships with key stakeholders.

Our role in supporting diversity and inclusion
As an international workforce business, we are committed to sourcing personnel that reflects the diversity and values of our client base but also that of Orion Group. We welcome the wide range of experiences and viewpoints that potential workers bring to our business and our clients, including those based on nationality, gender, culture, educational and professional backgrounds, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, and age differences, job classification and religion. In our inclusive workplace, regardless of your employment status as staff or contract, everyone is assured the right of equitable, fair and respectful treatment.