Senior Consents & Environment Manager

Base Location: Perth, Inverness or Aberdeen.

Salary: £47,600 - £71,600 + performance related bonus + car allowance + a range of other benefits to support your family, finances and wellbeing.

Working Pattern: Permanent | Full Time | Flexible First options available

The role

SSEN Transmission is looking for a project delivery focused Senior Consents & Environment Manager that is highly motivated and has a genuine passion to help deliver some of Scotland's most iconic national infrastructure projects. You will directly facilitate Scotland's ambitions to meet NetZero through connecting renewable energy and transporting it to the core centres of demand.

Reporting to the Lead Consents & Environment Manager, you will manage and mentor a small team, ensuring the successful delivery of a cluster of projects. You will also take the lead on complex, high-profile projects, bringing your expertise in consenting and environmental management to drive progress within our award-winning team.

You will

1. Actively lead, develop, and mentor a small team of Consents and Environment Managers, as well as less experienced staff, fostering their growth and performance. Provide coaching to enhance their understanding of the business, environmental and planning regulations, consenting requirements, role-specific processes and procedures, risk management, and the efficient execution of tasks.
2. Lead on Consents condition discharge, environmental licensing, the preparation of environmental contract specifications and obligations to ensure facilitation of timely project delivery.
3. Coordinate and monitor contractor and SSEN environmental and consenting compliance and meeting all statutory and internal obligations and our sector leading environmental and sustainability ambitions.
4. Scope, tender, award and manage multiple consultancy contracts to support the delivery of EnvCoW support services and post planning submission surveys and assessments.
5. Develop, control and build critical external stakeholder relationships (consenting bodies, statutory authorities, key consultees), communicating the criticality of infrastructure and the project requirements, building consensus around project decision making and creating an environment of mutually supportive relationships. You'll also develop positive and sustainable relationships with Contractors and wider project teams to 'raise the bar' in environmental and regulatory performance and compliance.

You have

1. Demonstrable experience in managing, developing, mentoring and training a team of environmental professionals; actively supporting their individual performance and development within the wider team.
2. Demonstrable project management experience and understanding of how to manage all aspects of the delivery of major projects e.g. project set up and delivery, management of consultants, costs, risk, quality and timing, which are essential to the success of this role.
3. Ability to represent SSEN's interests externally at a senior level, with previous provable stakeholder management skills including engaging, influencing and negotiating to develop effective relationships.
4. Ideally you will have an Environmental related degree, preferably with post graduate qualification coupled with experience in a relevant industry (e.g. infrastructure, environmental consultancy dealing with consenting and delivery of major and National projects). Membership of an appropriate environmental professional body is also desirable.
5. A willingness to contribute, adapt, and learn within a busy, fast-moving team, dealing with challenges and opportunities across an extensive workload. Innovation and new ideas are welcomed where they can add value and improve the consenting approach. Success in the role will be rewarded with good opportunities for long term career progression within a rapidly growing and key infrastructure company.

About SSE

SSE has a bold ambition - to be a leading energy company in a net zero world. We're transforming the grid to provide greener electricity for millions of people and investing over £20 billion in homegrown energy, with £20 billion more in the pipeline.

SSEN Transmission own and operate the electricity transmission network across the north of Scotland. We transport energy from where it is generated to where it is needed, ensuring a safe and reliable electricity supply for the communities we serve. But that's not all - we're upgrading the grid to deliver cleaner, homegrown energy for the future and building a network for net zero to create secure power for generations to come.

Ready to apply?

Start your online application using the Apply Now box on this page. We only accept applications made online. We'll be in touch after the closing date to let you know if we'll be taking your application further. If you're offered a role with SSE, you'll need to complete a criminality check and a credit check before you start work.