Consents Consultant
2 days ago
Assystem is an international company with one mission: accelerate the energy transition around the world.
Every day, our 8,000+ switchers located in 12 countries (Europe, Middle East, Pacific Asia & Africa) connect their six thousand billion neurons to tackle the task of the century: switching to low-carbon energy. We are a collective committed to making the energy switch. Sharing our knowledge, expertise and values allows us to innovate and think differently about the energy transition.
Here is how you can be a part of that switch:
Job DescriptionWe are seeking Consents Consultants and Senior Consents Consultants to support the delivery of major infrastructure projects across a range of regulated sectors, including energy, transport, and nuclear. These roles sit within the Consents discipline and focus on the coordination, management, and delivery of statutory and non-statutory consents in line with project, legislative, and regulatory requirements.
These are pipeline opportunities to support upcoming projects commencing in the New Year, with roles available across multiple regions.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the coordination and delivery of consents required to enable project development and delivery.
- Prepare, review, and manage consent applications, supporting documentation, and technical reports.
- Ensure consents activities comply with relevant legislation, standards, and regulatory frameworks.
- Work collaboratively with project teams to integrate consents requirements into programme delivery.
- Manage own work packages and contribute to multi-disciplinary projects, delivering outputs to time, cost, and quality.
- Support governance, assurance, and quality review of consents documentation.
- Interface with internal stakeholders and external bodies as required to progress consents activities.
About You
- Experience working in consents, planning, environmental permitting, or similar regulatory disciplines.
- Knowledge of relevant legislation and consent processes within regulated infrastructure environments.
- Ability to produce clear, accurate, and high-quality technical documentation.
- Strong organisational and communication skills, with the ability to work independently or as part of a wider project team.
- Comfortable operating within established management systems, processes, and governance frameworks.
Desirable
- Experience working on large or complex infrastructure programmes.
- Membership (or working towards membership) of a relevant professional institution (e.g. RTPI, IEMA, RICS).
- Experience managing discrete consents work packages or supporting multi-disciplinary project teams.
- These are ongoing opportunities to support anticipated project demand in the New Year.
- Roles are suitable for Consents Consultants and Senior Consultants, depending on experience.
- Opportunities are available across multiple UK regions.
- Roles may be based within highly regulated environments and will require compliance with relevant security policies and procedures.
- Candidates must be eligible to obtain and maintain appropriate UK security clearance
We are committed to equal treatment of candidates and promote, as well as foster all forms of diversity within our company. We believe that bringing together people with different backgrounds and perspectives is essential for creating innovative and impactful solutions. Skills, talent, and our people's ability to dare are the only things that matter . Bring your unique contributions and help us shape the future.
ASSYSTEM Job: Project ManagementType of contract ASSYSTEM: PermanentASSYSTEM Sector: Cross sector-
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