Project Development Associate

4 weeks ago


Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom EDP Renewables UK Limited Full time

Project Development Associate

At EDP Renewables UK Limited, we are seeking a highly skilled Project Development Associate to join our team. As a key member of our land strategy team, you will play a crucial role in the development of wind, solar, and storage projects.

Main Responsibilities

  • Manage internal land negotiations to secure land rights for solar, storage, and wind projects.
  • Represent EDP Renewables professionally, establishing and maintaining good relationships with landowners, tenant farmers, estate managers, and land agents.
  • Set up partnerships with external land service providers and participate in competitive tender processes.
  • Familiarize yourself with farming and forestry economics and regulations.
  • Attend consultations and meetings with stakeholder groups.
  • Liaise with and manage in-house and external grid, technical, legal, GIS, planning, and development resources.
  • Provide technical support for project managers on land issues, define land strategies with project managers, anticipate land issues, and handle land issues in coordination with the legal and engineering departments.
  • Support project managers in the ending phase of final leases.
  • Implement procedures related to storage, solar, and wind farm land issues.

Requirements

  • Educated to degree level, ideally qualified in a suitable subject (rural surveying, estate management).
  • Chartered Surveyor status is preferable.
  • 3-5 years' experience in solar, storage, and/or wind project development from a land management perspective.
  • Strong negotiation skills and experience of concluding land transactions.
  • Good understanding of forestry, farming, and commercial property sectors, sustainability, and land management.
  • Experience of the solar, storage, and/or wind development process.
  • Good client-facing skills and able to communicate complex and technical information and concepts to non-technical third parties.
  • Broad knowledge of investment, valuations, and funding of projects.
  • Good presentation skills.
  • Microsoft Office Package.
  • Fluent English.
  • A driving license is essential.
  • Previous land surveying experience, ideally in Renewables.
  • Excellent negotiation, presenting, and communication skills.
  • Able to work independently as well as part of a team.
  • Excellent written English and report writing skills.
  • Capable organization skills and a collaborative and skilled communicator.


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