Senior Environmental Permitting & Carbon Advisor

emplify GmbH; Coleshill Heath; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Uniper seeks an experienced environmental permitting professional to lead permitting for UK energy projects. You will coordinate permit applications, manage consultants, and ensure compliance with UK ETS requirements while driving robust environmental performance across assets.

Your role includes leading annual UK ETS monitoring and reporting, maintaining carbon accounting processes, and engaging regulators to support regulatory horizons and internal guidance.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in UK ETS, permit management and regulator engagement.
• Proven track record delivering environmental permitting for large projects.
• Strong understanding of UK environmental legislation and regulatory frameworks.
• Ability to develop permitting strategies aligned with project delivery and compliance.

Responsibilities

• Lead coordination and delivery of environmental permits and consents for UK energy projects.
• Manage external consultants conducting environmental assessments for permit applications.
• Provide specialist advice on environmental permitting and UK ETS requirements.
• Lead annual UK ETS monitoring, reporting and verification for the generation fleet.
• Maintain carbon reporting processes and governance for audit readiness.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Regulatory engagement

UK ETS experience

Environmental permitting

Project management

Education

Environmental Science degree

Tools

Regulatory reporting tools

Job description

B37 7YE Birmingham 24.09.2026 Uniper

Join our environment team.

We are Uniper

At Uniper, we are pro-actively transforming the world of energy whilst at the same time ensuring security of energy supply. As an internationally operating company, we work in very diverse teams with the greatest possible working time flexibility for our employees. Our corporate culture is characterized by equal opportunities, mutual appreciation, and respect. With us, you will be able to develop new business models, work on technological solutions for a modern, sustainable, and future-oriented energy supply as well as pro-actively help to shape changes. Interested? Then we will look forward to meeting you!

Your responsibilities

• Lead the coordination and delivery of environmental permits and consents for UK energy generation projects, including permit applications and variations, working closely with project teams, consultants and regulators.
• Manage external consultants and technical specialists undertaking environmental assessments required to support permit applications, ensuring outputs are technically robust, aligned with regulatory expectations and delivered to project timelines.
• Provide specialist technical advice on environmental permitting and UK ETS requirements, supporting projects and operational sites to ensure regulatory compliance and robust environmental performance.
• Lead the delivery of the annual UK Emissions Trading Scheme (UK ETS) monitoring, reporting and verification cycle for the Uniper UK Generation fleet, ensuring data integrity and compliance with regulatory obligations.
• Maintain and improve carbon reporting processes, monitoring plans and associated governance to ensure consistent carbon accounting and audit readiness across assets.
• Maintain effective working relationships with regulators and trusted external partners, supporting constructive regulatory engagement on permitting and carbon compliance matters.
• Support regulatory horizon scanning and contribute to the development of internal guidance, company positions and implementation plans for emerging environmental and carbon regulations.

Your profile

• Strong stakeholder management, influencing and negotiation skills, with the ability to build effective relationships and work constructively with regulators, consultants, project teams and senior leaders.
• Significant practical experience of the UK Emissions Trading Scheme (UK ETS), including permit management, monitoring plans, emissions reporting, verification processes and regulator engagement.
• Significant experience leading and managing planning applications and Environmental Permitting Regulations (EPR) applications for large industrial or infrastructure projects.
• Proven ability to develop permitting and consent strategies that support project delivery whilst maintaining regulatory compliance.
• Strong understanding of UK environmental legislation, regulatory frameworks and permitting requirements relevant to the energy, industrial or infrastructure sectors.
• Demonstrable experience of engaging with external regulators, including the Environment Agency, Natural Resources Wales, local authorities and other statutory consultees.
• Excellent project management and organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple complex workstreams, competing priorities and challenging timescales.
• Proven ability to identify, analyse and resolve complex technical and regulatory issues through the assessment of data, risks and available evidence.
• Experience managing external consultants and technical specialists, ensuring delivery of high-quality outputs to programme and budget requirements.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to prepare and present clear technical reports, briefing papers, regulatory submissions and recommendations for senior stakeholders.
• Ability to provide expert environmental advice to development projects, operational assets and business leadership teams.
• Experience supporting major capital projects, operational assets, or nationally significant infrastructure projects through planning and permitting processes.
• Strong commercial awareness, including consideration of project risk, programme, cost and wider business objectives when developing regulatory strategies.
• Degree, HNC or equivalent qualification in Environmental Science, Engineering, Geography, Chemistry or a related discipline.