Planning Manager

3 weeks ago

Gloucester, United Kingdom SearchTech Full time

Location: Gloucester +Hybrid Working


The Company:

Our client is one of the UK's most innovative renewable energy companies, committed to excellence and innovation.

Backed by a large utility, this client is undeterred in its quest to Net Zero.


The Role:

As Planning Manager, you will manage a portfolio of large-scale grid-connected solar and energy storage projects. You will coordinate input from multidisciplinary in-house and external teams, guiding projects from early stages to being built.


Responsibilities:

  • Act as a key contact for projects, managing input from property, planning, grid, technical, legal, and commercial teams.
  • Proactively manage development projects against clearly defined timescales and milestones.
  • Lead the planning aspects of projects, coordinating external consultants and managing community engagement.
  • Identify and manage all key stakeholders in a project, including in a stakeholder management plan.
  • Prepare weekly status updates, reporting progress and detailing risks and mitigation strategies.
  • Set and monitor project budgets, ensuring spending aligns with forecasts and regularly reporting on progress and variations.
  • Line manage a graduate planner, focusing on site finding and evaluation.


Requirements:

  • Proven post-qualification experience with a degree in a planning-related discipline and eligibility for membership in an accredited professional institute (RTPI or MRTPI or equivalent).
  • Ability to liaise with internal and external teams, developing productive relationships to secure necessary approvals.
  • Experience managing renewable energy projects through the entire development cycle, understanding key issues, and negotiating viable solutions.
  • Capability to identify potential obstacles to delivery and influence key decision-makers to ensure timely project completion.
  • Experience in renewable energy project development.
  • Effective resource management to deliver key outcomes.
  • Full UK driving license and ability to travel frequently for site visits and meetings.


About us

SearchTech are specialist recruiters across the Renewable Energy, Waste and Circular Economy and Sustainability markets. We partner with our clients and candidates on roles that combat climate change, increase circularity, promote sustainability and build responsible organisations.


We are committed to inclusivity in the workplace and therefore welcome applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of ethnicity, race, gender, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, age, or whether or not they have a disability.

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