Our client is currently seeking a Senior Consents Manager for a contract role.
Key Responsibilities:
Strategy, Planning & Governance
- Manage inputs to the Consents Strategy, covering the DCO and all secondary consents.
- Oversee the development of the Master Consents Register, integrated consents schedule, and associated risk register.
- Drive programme-wide alignment on consents pathways, evidence requirements, and critical path items.
Management of EIA Consultants
- Lead, coordinate, and quality-manage all EIA consultant teams, ensuring delivery of a legally robust Environmental Statement (ES).
- Set work scopes, manage schedules and budgets, and integrate EIA outputs with design, engineering, and planning workstreams.
- Chair review meetings, track progress, manage risks, and maintain consistency in environmental reporting.
- Oversee the quality of EIA evidence used in stakeholder engagement, pre-application submissions, and Examination responses.
DCO Lifecycle Management
- Pre-Application: Support statutory consultation, oversee Statements of Common Ground, and engage with PINS, regulators, local authorities, and stakeholders.
- Examination: Manage responses to the Examining Authority's Questions (ExQs), hearings, and action trackers.
- Post-Decision: Implement and manage the requirements-discharge framework.
