Planning director – Onshore

Planning director – Onshore
Job Type: Permanent
Salary: £65,000+ benefits, Bonus, etc.
Location: Scotland, North East England and Gloucestershire
Consultant: Dominic Wall
Ref: SPOF71

The Client:
The Green Recruitment Company is working with one of the largest planning consultancies working nationally and internationally. As a result of a large increase in contracts, this client has engaged The Green Recruitment Company to recruit a number of planners across a broad range of experience levels. The main focus is within the energy sector particularly in onshore wind and hydro projects.

The Role:

Reporting to the Wind Development Director, the remit of the Wind Planner will be to drive the efforts of the Planning team. You willl be responsible for securing consented planning permissions on the portfolio of Wind renewable projects with respect to planning, and delivering consented planning to meet targets. This will involve creatively strategising the planning process forming excellent working relationships with stakeholders in the planning process. You will be responsible for ensuring that the Planning team are working proactively with the Site Acquisition teams to identify any factors that may lead to objections during the planning application process, and where possible mitigating these issues. You will be responsible for ensuring that any conditions associated with consent are fully complied with across the portfolio of projects.
Specific responsibilities

• Own and drive the performance of the Planning Team delivering consented and permitted sites to meet targets
• Advise the site acquisition teams on the feasibility of planning consent being granted for the renewable projects in the context of the site characteristics and relevant planning policy
• Form excellent working relationships with stakeholders in local planning authorities and other bodies addressing and resolving possible objections
• Anticipate and mitigate any possible objections from parish officials, local authority officials and the community at large
• Prepare and submit planning applications in compliance with local authority planning regulations and procedures
• Ensure that all conditions with respect to planning consent are complied with in the build process
• Instruct and co-ordinate the work of external planning consultants where necessary
• Proactively keep the business informed of trends in planning as relevant to the renewable industry


Experience and skills:
• Demonstrable experience of successful people management skills.
• Renewable energy planning experience.
• MRTPI qualification necessary.
• Considerable private sector development control experience.
• A track record of successful planning application within onshore wind.


The Green Recruitment Company is an Employment Business for interim, contract and temporary recruitment and acts as an Employment Agency in relation to permanent vacancies.

Please contact:
Dominic Wall
dominic@greenrecruitmentcompany.com
+44 (0) 203 0022877
www.greenrecruitmentcompany.com