Environmental Consents Lead – Permits & Regulators

Strabag; Manchester; Hybride; GBP 60 000 - 90 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Strabag is seeking an Environmental Consents Manager to lead on environmental consents management across the HARP project in the UK. You will drive identification, planning, submission and approval of consents, liaise with the Environment Agency and local authorities, and manage documentation and risk mitigation.

The role requires degree qualification or equivalent experience and strong stakeholder skills. You will provide technical consenting advice to project teams, maintain consent registers,

Qualifications

• Degree Qualified or related discipline (or experience equivalent to a degree; at least 4 years).
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills, with experience engaging effectively with regulators, consultants, contractors and internal teams.
• Experience producing environmental consent applications for submission to the Environment Agency.
• Experience identifying, managing, and mitigating consent-related risks and constraints.
• Good organisational skills, with the ability to prioritise competing tasks, manage multiple deadlines and coordinate multidisciplinary teams.
• Ability to provide technical environmental consenting advice to project and delivery teams.
• Understanding of environmental impact assessment (EIA) commitments and experience of planning & facilitating additional assessments.

Responsabilités

• Lead the identification, planning, tracking, submission and approval of environmental consents, including but not limited to; ordinary watercourse consents, discharge permits, abstraction licenses, Flood Risk Activity Permits and Medium Combustion Plant Permits.
• Liaise with Regulators; Environment Agency (EA), CL:AIRE & Local Planning Authorities.
• Manage the preparation, coordination, and submission of consent applications, discharge documentation, management plans and supporting technical information.
• Ensure timely discharge of consent conditions, including TCPA planning conditions, Environmental Permits, water-related EA consents & other statutory approvals.
• Maintain and update the project's environmental consents register, ensuring requirements, tasks, milestones, dependencies, risk items and deadlines are accurately recorded and monitored.
• Provide technical advice and guidance on environmental consenting requirements, legislative obligations and regulatory processes to project teams, delivery teams and senior management.
• Act as a key liaison with regulators, statutory consultees, local authorities, consultants, designers, project managers and other stakeholders to support effective and timely consenting outcomes.
• Identify, assess, manage and communicate consent-related risks, constraints, dependencies and opportunities, escalating issues where required and supporting mitigation planning.
• Comprehensively handover post-consent obligations to the Environment and Delivery Teams.
• Drive continuous improvement in environmental consents management processes, systems, reporting and lessons learned.
• Communicate legislative and compliance requirements clearly across different technical and project disciplines to ensure a consistent and compliant delivery approach.

Description du poste

Strabag is seeking an Environmental Consents Manager to lead on environmental consents management across the HARP project in the UK. You will drive identification, planning, submission and approval of consents, liaise with the Environment Agency and local authorities, and manage documentation and risk mitigation.

The role requires degree qualification or equivalent experience and strong stakeholder skills. You will provide technical consenting advice to project teams, maintain consent registers,