Consents & Environment Manager

Consents & Environment Manager

Posted 3 days ago by Totaljobs

£700 Per day
Undetermined
Undetermined
Inverness (IV1)

Summary: The Consents & Environment Manager will oversee the environmental and planning aspects of large-scale electricity transmission infrastructure projects, ensuring compliance with necessary regulations for timely construction. This role involves managing consent conditions, contractor compliance, and stakeholder relationships while promoting best practices in environmental performance. The position requires strong project management skills and a background in environmental disciplines.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Lead the discharge of planning consent conditions and environmental licences across major projects.
  • Prepare environmental contract specifications and associated obligations.
  • Coordinate and monitor contractor and project environmental compliance against statutory and internal requirements.
  • Procure and manage consultancy support, including environmental clerks of works (EnvCoW) and post-consent surveys and assessments.
  • Build and maintain effective relationships with statutory bodies, consenting authorities and key external stakeholders.
  • Undertake inspections and audits to assure compliance with planning and environmental commitments.
  • Promote best practice and continuous improvement in environmental and regulatory performance across delivery teams.

Key Skills:

  • Proven project management experience within major infrastructure or nationally significant projects.
  • Strong understanding of cost, risk, quality and programme management in a delivery environment.
  • Demonstrable experience engaging, influencing and negotiating with external stakeholders and authorities.
  • Degree qualified in an environmental discipline; postgraduate qualifications and professional body membership are desirable.
  • Background in infrastructure, utilities or environmental consultancy preferred.

Salary (Rate): £700 per day

City: Inverness

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: undetermined

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: Other

Detailed Description From Employer:

Consents & Environment Manager
Transmission Infrastructure Projects
An opportunity has arisen for a Consents & Environment Manager to support the delivery of large-scale electricity transmission infrastructure projects. This role is project-delivery focused and plays a key part in ensuring environmental, planning and consenting requirements are met to enable timely construction and commissioning.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead the discharge of planning consent conditions and environmental licences across major projects.
  • Prepare environmental contract specifications and associated obligations.
  • Coordinate and monitor contractor and project environmental compliance against statutory and internal requirements.
  • Procure and manage consultancy support, including environmental clerks of works (EnvCoW) and post-consent surveys and assessments.
  • Build and maintain effective relationships with statutory bodies, consenting authorities and key external stakeholders.
  • Undertake inspections and audits to assure compliance with planning and environmental commitments.
  • Promote best practice and continuous improvement in environmental and regulatory performance across delivery teams.

About You

Proven project management experience within major infrastructure or nationally significant projects.
Strong understanding of cost, risk, quality and programme management in a delivery environment.
Demonstrable experience engaging, influencing and negotiating with external stakeholders and authorities.
Degree qualified in an environmental discipline; postgraduate qualifications and professional body membership are desirable.
Background in infrastructure, utilities or environmental consultancy preferred.

Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.