Project Manager – Planning

Our client is an experienced developer in the on- and off-shore wind market, with multi-skilled planning, finance and construction project teams. They have realised 120 wind farms, and solar parks across Europe with a total installed capacity of over 1GW and investment volume of over €1.6bn.

Role

Reporting to the Head of Planning, the right individual will be responsible for project management of projects in the development and planning phase. An understanding of bringing projects from concept through the planning and project programming process is important.

Responsibilities

• Project management of the wind farm design, development and planning process (including appeals)
• Knowledge of the wind farm industry, ideally working as a wind farm developer
• Negotiation of landowner and third-party agreements
• Knowledge of grid connection alternatives
• Engaging and managing outsourced resources including EIA consultancies
• Maintaining all key relationships with third party stakeholders and organisations
• To a lesser extent working with some project financing and development budgeting

Requirements

This is a broad project management role, and the right individual will come from a background in which they have performed a pivotal role in managing difficult externally facing relationships in contentious public domain projects and public engagements.

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