Environmental and Consents Specialist - Warwick, United Kingdom - National Grid

National Grid

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Environmental and Consents Specialist - ESO:

Location: Warwick, GB, CV34 6DA
Division: Network Operability (4)
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Job Function: Engineering
About The Role:

An exciting opportunity has risen to work in the Offshore Coordination Project as part of National Grid ESO. The Offshore Coordination project is a key part of the ESO's plan to facilitate net zero.

This exciting project works in collaboration with the government's Offshore Transmission Network Review (OTNR) to design a coordinated offshore transmission system.

The ESO is developing a Holistic Network Design (HND) which will find the best way to connect offshore wind generation to meet the government's 2030 targets.

The team are now focussing on the second round of this design, which will build on the original HND by incorporating additional wind generation and new generation and demand scenarios.

The output of the process will be a set of recommendations for how the offshore and onshore networks should develop, taking account of economic, operability, environment and community considerations.

In this team, you'll be able to see your work contribute to an offshore network design which benefits consumers and communities and play your part in developing a low carbon future.

This role will be based in Warwick 2 days a week. We continue to offer hybrid working from office and home. This is a full-time role, and we offer flexible working arrangements.

Key Accountabilities:

Developing the assessment methodology for assessing the environmental and community impact of offshore wind farm connections and lead the appraisal of environmental and community considerations for various design options being considered within the HND.
Provide environmental and consenting expertise and knowledge to the project design options being develop under the HND to minimise environmental and community impact and ensure design proposals are consent able and deliverable.
Manage specialist consultants responsible for delivering the cable corridor routeing and subsequent environmental and community appraisals, ensuring their work is delivered accurately and on time.
Work with key external stakeholders including transmission owners, government and Statutory Bodies to present and gain feedback on HND design options
Support the appraisal of various design options against the terms of reference within the HND to provide a final design recommendation
Articulating the rationale for the final design recommendation within technical reports and in meetings with interested stakeholders
Work with the design teams to integrate environment and community considerations into network designs, ensuring we have a network design which achieves better environment and community outcomes.
Awareness raising of environmental and community considerations in network design and other activities of the business.
Identifying areas of continual improvement for the appraisal and consideration of environment and community in network planning.

About You:

Knowledge of environmental legislation, planning processes, consenting regimes and environmental assessment processes
Knowledge of strategic Environmental Assessment and Habitats regulation assessments.
Experience of manging complex projects and managing consultants to deliver desired outcomes
A willingness to contribute, adapt and learn within a busy fastmoving team
Strong written and verbal communication skills, with a proven ability to communicate complex technical information
Proven ability to build high quality relationships both internally and externally and using those to achieve the required outcomes.

What You'll Get:

This role offers a competitive salary between £40,000 - £55,000 per annum dependent on capability.

As well as your base salary, you will receive a bonus based on personal and company performance and a competitive contributory pension scheme where we will double match your contribution to a maximum company contribution of 12%.

You will also have access to several flexible benefits such as a share incentive plan, salary sacrifice car and technology schemes, support via employee assistance lines and matched charity giving to name a few.

About Us:

As the Electricity System Operator (ESO) for Great Britain we are in a privileged position. We sit at the heart of the energy system, balancing electricity supply and demand second by second. We keep the lights on and the electricity flowing directly to where it's needed.

We are also thinking about where our energy will come from in the future and how we will operate a greener and cleaner system.

One of the goals we have set for ourselves is to be able to run a zero-carbon electricity system by 2025.

This will be instrumental in helping the UK meet its wider zero-carbon target.

More Information:

At National Grid ESO, we work towards the highest standards in everything we do,