Manager - Forest

Sterlite Power; Pune District; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Sterlite Power seeks a Manager - Forest to lead Environment, Forest and Wildlife clearances for linear projects in India. You will create accelerated plans, plan budgets, and coordinate across Forest and Wildlife teams to ensure on-time delivery.

The role requires strong knowledge of regulations, PARIVESH submissions, and proactive liaison with forest officials, with travel to project sites as needed.

Responsibilities

• Create accelerated plan for Environment, Forest and Wildlife clearances to ensure on-time delivery.
• Plan budgets to maintain cost efficiency.
• Coordinate cross-functional with project teams and forest officials.
• Provide technical support to ensure timely clearances and working permissions with First Time Right.
• Ensure compliance with MoEF&CC and CRZ regulations.
• Submit Environment, Forest & Wildlife proposals on PARIVESH.
• Travel to project sites as required.

Skills

Environment clearances

Regulatory compliance

Stakeholder coordination

Project planning

Job description

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