Consents Project Manager

Company Description

At Turner & Townsend we’re passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realize their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society.

Every day we help our major global clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects, in over 130 countries worldwide.

Our team is dynamic, innovative, and client-focused, supported by an inclusive and fun company culture. Our clients value our proactive approach, depth of expertise, integrity and the quality we deliver. As a result, our people get to enjoy working on some of the most exciting projects in the world.

Job Description

We are now seeking a Consents Project Manager to join us and play a key role assisting our clients in the transition to a low carbon energy future. The role will involve working in a dynamic and fast paced organisation and will afford the candidate the opportunity to work on strategic and innovative projects across multiple stages of delivery from concept through to development consent and transition to delivery. The candidate should have a strong contract and project management background with a proven track record of managing and delivering Consents strategies, Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) documentation, and Appropriate Assessment/Natura Impact Statement (AA/NIS) documentation on large scale complex infrastructure projects, ideally in renewable energy or transmission sectors.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Responsibilities will include management and delivery of Consents outputs for a diverse portfolio of projects, predominantly in the energy/utilities sector.
• Ability to adapt quickly to changing project and business requirements, with a strong technical ability to understand and digest technical information.
• Identifying and managing internal and external project Stakeholders, ensuring regular and timely communications at all levels;
• Ability to work collaboratively with stakeholders across all project stages;
• Ability to analyse issues, exercising judgement to make decisions and drive delivery of Consents elements of large infrastructure projects;
• Managing and developing the below outputs:
  • Project Initiation
    • Planning Consents procedures (Consents Management Plan, etc.)
    • Stakeholder Engagement Plan & Mapping
    • Interface management with other functions
  • Pre-application
    • Pre-application consultation and engagement
    • EIA Scoping / Statutory Authority engagement
  • Development Consent Delivery
    • Procurement & Contracting of EIA consultant & others
    • QA/QC of EIA/AA documentation
    • Schedule management and assurance
    • Engineering interface & Change / Risk Management
    • Stakeholder Engagement and Management (incl. Statutory Authorities)
    • Commitments/Mitigations Register management
  • Transition to Project Delivery
    • Consents discharge strategy & training
    • Project Controls & Governance for delivery
    • Compliance checking process for discharge of conditions
    • Updated Stakeholder Mapping and management process
• Inputting to the development of overall project documentation, including Risk Register, Issue Register, Project schedules, Monthly Reports, Project Budgets and Governance approvals;
• Ensuring that appropriate project controls are in place within the team having regard to budgets, schedule, scope, quality, risk, and other performance indicators.
• Reporting and presenting on Consenting element of project delivery to Senior Management Team.
• Leading and motivating project team members to ensure a sense of team and a clear understanding of goals and objectives;
• Demonstrate the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, highly collaborative work environment;
• Demonstrate enthusiasm to drive development and delivery of large infrastructure projects and programmes of work.

Qualifications

• 5+ years relevant experience preferably with a planning / consenting / energy / engineering background.
• Experience managing the Consents processes of large infrastructure projects (ideally renewables) along with the ability to adapt, innovate and meet changing demands;
• Knowledge of Planning & Consents legislation and policy in Ireland (or a similar jurisdiction).
• Knowledge of the industry, environment and context, experience working within a similar regulated utility environment;
• Excellent communication and written skills with the ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience;
• Commercial awareness with the ability to make decisions and recommendations in the best interests of the Client / project;
• Excellent organisational and communication skills;
• Excellent interpersonal skills and a proven ability to work effectively as part of a team;
• Recognised accredited qualification in Environmental, Planning, Engineering or related field.
• Full, clean drivers licence.

Desirable Requirements

• Recognised qualification in Project Management.
• Experience managing Consents for renewable energy projects either
• Strong technical understanding of renewable energy infrastructure.
• Experience across all stages of the Consents management process (project initiation, pre-application consultation, consent delivery, transition to project delivery)

Additional Information

What we offer you:

• Full time, permanent
• Competitive remuneration and attractive range of benefits
• Pension
• 23 days Annual leave
• Opportunity to work on impactful and innovative projects
• Career development opportunities both in Ireland and globally
• Opportunity to work with a diverse group of talented and collaborative colleagues

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.

We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com/

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It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time.

Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team, to submit candidates for review.

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