Town Planning Specialist

3 weeks ago


Inverness, United Kingdom SSE Full time

**Job Title**:Town Planning Specialist

**Base Location**:Glasgow, Perth, Aberdeen or Inverness

**Salary**:£47,872 - £55,653 per annum + car / allowance + a range of other benefits to support your family, finances and wellbeing.

**Working Pattern**: Permanent | Full Time | Flexible working options available

**The Role**

An exciting new opportunity due to our continued growth, for an experienced Town Planner to join our team, based from any of our regional offices
- Glasgow, Perth, Aberdeen, or Inverness, to help shape the Transmission business consenting strategy and play a central role in our Green Strategy.

We are seeking career focused and highly motivated applicants to work within an experienced and welcoming team of Planners and Environmental Managers. You will work with a high level of autonomy with the benefit of experienced support and guidance where required.

**Key Responsibilities will include**:

- Provision of specialist support and advice to project teams delivering complex planning and s37 consents.
- Representing our business interests by contributing to Scottish and UK planning policy development, Spatial Plans and Local Development Plans. You will help to build consensus and support around the electricity transmission system’s critical role in facilitating NetZero.
- Developing, controlling and building mutually beneficial external stakeholder relationships with consenting bodies, statutory authorities, key consultees, and government departments.
- Representing the company at Council Committees, Public Hearings and work with the Queens Counsel to prepare Statements of Case for Planning Appeals.

**What do I need?**

To be considered for this role, we would love you to:
Be Educated to Degree Level and be a member of the Royal Town Planning Institute.
- Have a detailed knowledge of the Scottish planning process, consenting regimes and environmental impact assessment (EIA) legislation.
- Be solution focused and an enthusiastic/positive communicator. You should have excellent communication skills, being able to articulate complex spatial planning issues to a wide variety of stakeholders.
- A willingness to contribute, adapt, and learn within a busy, fast-moving team, dealing with challenges and opportunities across an extensive workload.
- Look to add value and improve the consenting approach through innovation and new ideas to deliver the green agenda.

**About our Business**

SSEN Transmission owns and operates the electricity transmission network in the north of Scotland, transporting energy from where it is generated to where it is needed, providing a safe and reliable supply of electricity to the communities it serves. Home to some of the UK's greatest resources of renewable energy, SSEN Transmission is playing a critical role in the transition to a low carbon future, developing, building, maintaining and operating a network for net zero.

**What's in it for you?**

An excellent package with 34 days holiday entitlement, enhanced maternity/paternity leave, discounted healthcare, salary sacrifice car leasing and much more, view our full benefits package on our careers site.

**Next Steps**

EXTERNAL: Before commencing employment with SSE, you'll be required to fully complete our pre-employment screening process consisting of a basic criminal records and credit check.

INTERNAL: As a courtesy, please let your current line manager know you are applying.

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