Senior DCO Project Manager – NSIP Leader (Remote)

Pinsent Masons; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Agile working (home working)

Carers’ leave

25 days annual leave

Pension

Private healthcare

Electric car scheme

Job summary

Pinsent Masons is seeking a Senior Legal Project Manager (DCO) to lead end‑to‑end management of the DCO lifecycle within the LPM team. You will guide clients and internal teams through the Planning Act 2008 regime to deliver compliant, well‑governed project outcomes.

Joining the Infrastructure Planning practice, you will influence NSIPs, coordinate governance forums, and mentor junior PMs while promoting lean, efficient delivery across UK offices.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering key stages of Development Consent Orders (DCO).
• Experience coordinating complex, multi-workstream and multi-organisation projects.
• Strong understanding of Planning Act 2008, NSIP regime and DCO process.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate DCO/NSIP matters, maintain timelines and deadlines.
• Organise inputs, monitor progress, align workstreams to the programme.
• Maintain project plans, logs, risk and issue registers and DCO tools.
• Track changes, escalate client impacts.

Skills

DCO/NSIP experience

Multi-workstream coordination

Planning Act 2008 knowledge

Stakeholder management

Problem-solving mindset

Attention to detail

MS Office (Outlook/Word/Excel/Power/IG

Commercial awareness

Challenge constructively

Resilience and adaptability

Education

Project management qualification

Tools

MS Office Suite

Copilot

SharePoint

Job description

Pinsent Masons is seeking a Senior Legal Project Manager (DCO) to lead end‑to‑end management of the DCO lifecycle within the LPM team. You will guide clients and internal teams through the Planning Act 2008 regime to deliver compliant, well‑governed project outcomes.

Joining the Infrastructure Planning practice, you will influence NSIPs, coordinate governance forums, and mentor junior PMs while promoting lean, efficient delivery across UK offices.