Marine Consents Consultant

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**The Opportunity**

As an energy engineering consultancy, Arup is helping clients across the global energy industry to shift to low carbon and renewable sources while meeting increasing global demand. Whether it’s investment or transaction advice, energy system integration, or the detailed design of energy infrastructure, we help clients to chart a sustainable path forward.

We are recruiting an experienced Marine Consents Consultant passionate about the marine environment, maritime infrastructure and the transformation of the energy system to net zero. Working across the UK, and focussing on our growing marine energy business, the post is open to our **Belfast, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Newcastle offices.**

This is a great opportunity to work on some of the most exciting and challenging emerging maritime and marine energy projects, using and developing your consulting and technical skills. We provide a full suite of maritime and marine energy consenting services, including ports and harbours, off-shore renewables, major subsea cables and pipelines. We work across maritime and energy markets including offshore wind, carbon capture and storage, pipelines and emerging technologies.

**Is this role right for you?**

We are seeking a skilled Marine Consents Consultant with experience of marine and maritime consenting to join the team. The successful applicant will gain the chance to further their career and have exposure to a wide range of projects across our entire portfolio of clients.

We have an increasing pipeline of opportunities to deliver consents for major marine energy schemes and this will provide challenges using your technical expertise and give you the chance to further your career path at a multi-disciplinary consultancy.

This is a fantastic opportunity to take responsibility of managing components of projects both on time and to budget, along with communicating plans and strategies to the rest of the team and more junior members of staff.

We are seeking experience and skills in the following;
- Experience in marine spatial planning with strong knowledge of relevant statutory requirements and regulations
- Experience of working in and leading multi-disciplinary teams and contributing key project workstreams
- Experience of leading client meetings and of stakeholder engagement
- Degree qualified (e.g. marine resource management, marine planning, environmental planning) or equivalent experience in a relevant industry where you have managed the interaction with regulatory regimes.

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**Rewards and Benefits**

We care about you and want you to perform at your best, which is why we offer one of the most competitive benefits packages in our sector.

As a member organisation, everyone shares in our success through a global profit share scheme (payments are dependent on the firm’s financial performance).

We also provide Private medical insurance, Life assurance, Accident insurance and Income protection cover. In addition, you’ll have access to flexible benefits to help you look after all aspects of your wellbeing and give you the freedom and flexibility to find the best solutions for you, your family, and your individual needs.

**Different people, shared values.**

At Arup, we believe when talented people collaborate, great things are possible. Arup hires people with proven skills and open minds. We are taking deliberate action to create an inclusive culture that is grounded in our purpose to shape a better world.

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At Arup, we appreciate that everyone’s circumstances are different and having the freedom to flex the way we work is essential to our wellbeing. If flexibility matters to you let us know when you apply, and we will discuss how this could work in your role.

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