Consents & Environment Manager

Taylor Hopkinson Limited; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Taylor Hopkinson Limited is recruiting an Consents & Environment Manager for a major infrastructure project in Scotland. The role leads on consents discharge, environmental licensing and development of environmental contract specifications to enable timely delivery.

You will build external stakeholder relationships with consenting bodies and authorities, manage consultants, and drive regulatory performance and compliance across project teams in a challenging, high‑visibility environment.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable project management experience across major infrastructure projects.
• Understanding of delivery of major projects, management of consultants, costs, risk, quality and timing.
• Postgraduate environmental qualification desirable.

Responsibilities

• Lead on consents discharge, environmental licensing and the preparation of environmental contract specifications.
• Scope, tender, award and manage multiple consultancy contracts to support delivery of EnvCoW and post planning surveys.
• Develop and manage external stakeholder relationships with consenting bodies and statutory authorities.
• Communicate project requirements and build consensus around decisions to enable timely delivery.
• Conduct inspections and ensure environmental and planning consent compliance across delegated projects.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder engagement

Environmental compliance

Contract management

Education

Environmental degree

Job description

Consents & Environment Manager for a major infrastructure project in Scotland

Responsibilities

• Lead on Consents condition discharge, environmental licensing, the preparation of environmental contract specifications and obligations to ensure facilitation of timely project delivery.
• Scope, tender, award and manage multiple consultancy contracts to support the delivery of EnvCoW support services and post planning submission surveys and assessments.
• 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 create an environment of mutually supportive relationships.
• Develop positive and sustainable relationships with Contractors and wider project teams to 'raise the bar' in environmental and regulatory performance and compliance.
• Conduct scheduled inspections and audits on delegated projects to ensure environmental and planning consent compliance.

Experience Required

• 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.
• Ideally 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