Manager - Forest

Sterlite Power; Mumbai; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Sterlite Power is seeking a Manager - Forest in Mumbai to lead the planning and execution of Environment, Forest and Wildlife clearance processes for our projects. You will drive timelines, coordinate with internal teams and external authorities, and ensure compliance to meet project delivery goals.

The role requires strong regulatory knowledge, strategic stakeholder engagement, and willingness to travel to project sites as needed to expedite approvals and maintain schedule integrity.

Qualifications

• Experience in obtaining Environment, Forest and Wildlife clearances and familiarity with PARIVESH a must.
• Willingness to travel to project sites across sites.
• Strong ability to coordinate cross-functionally with internal teams and external authorities.

Responsibilities

• Plan customized strategies to secure Environment, Forest and Wildlife clearances for on-time delivery.
• Plan budget to maintain cost efficiency within Forest & Wildlife initiatives.
• Coordinate with Forest officials and outsourcing agencies to accelerate approvals.
• Provide technical support to ensure timely availability of required Forest & Wildlife approvals and Working Permissions.

Skills

Regulatory compliance

Project coordination

Stakeholder management

Communication

Job description

Position Title

Manager - Forest

Key Accountabilities / Responsibilities Planning

• Create customized accelerated plan for each project for obtaining Environment, Forest, and Wildlife (F&WL) clearance to ensure on-time project delivery.
• Planning of budget to maintain Cost efficiency.
• Cross functional coordination

Execution

• Provide technical support across the Project, supporting Forest and Wildlife team by ensuring robust execution of end-end process as per guidelines for timely availability of Forest & Wildlife Clearances as well as Working Permission by achieving First Time Right (FTR).
• Ensure strict Environment, Forest and Wildlife compliance of states and MoEF&CC.
• Explore and identify other levers to crunch timelines. For example - pro-active alignment with forest officials and outsourcing agencies, wherever required to expedite work in case of bandwidth shortage.
• Strengthen communication strategy by close co-ordination with the Forest officials at different levels for timely and speedy processing of proposals.
• Candidate should be well conversant about Rules, Regulations, and process to obtain Environment, Forest, Wildlife and CRZ clearances.
• Should be well conversant about bidding process i.e., Area assessment, budget preparation, risk assessment, stakeholder mapping etc w.r.t Forest & Wildlife proposals for linear projects.
• Should be well conversant about preparation and submission of the Environment, Forest & Wildlife proposals on PARIVESH.

Monitoring

• Quality checks of Forest & Wildlife proposals before each submission to ensure all requirements for proposals have been fulfilled to achieve first time right.
• Support COE cell to Develop and Review the Environment, Forest and Wildlife Plans, Policies and Legal Frameworks.

Position Demands

• Travel to Project Sites

Competencies

• Behavioural - Achievement Orientation
• Behavioural - Information Seeking
• Behavioural - Initiative
• Behavioural - Innovative Thinking
• Functional - Financial
• Functional - Operational
• Functional - People
• Functional - Strategic