Permitting Manager - #1673327

Location: Southwest England – Hybrid

Type: Permanent

Sector: Nuclear

Description

Our client is a global leader in the nuclear power industry.

The Role

We are seeking an experienced Permitting Manager to develop and maintain the environmental impacts assessment for a significant nuclear sector project in the UK. This role is crucial to the project's success, ensuring high levels of regulatory compliance and environmental protection standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop comprehensive environmental assessment frameworks, handbooks, and detailed planning schedules


• Model, measure, and assess environmental radioactivity and other environmental contaminants


• Undertake offsite radiological and environmental impact assessments for discharges and disposal routes


• Author technical specifications for environmental baseline studies and regulatory submission reports


• Coordinate with technical specialists, engineers, and operations teams to gather input data for environmental assessments


• Ensure identification of relevant environmental features, devices, systems, and circuits that are important to environmental protection


• Develop processes for Design Reviews, HAZIDs, HAZOPs, and HASANs adequate for environmental compliance


• Author and review environmental assessments and reports


• Identify relevant environmental impact scenarios and established processes for implementation


• Manage environmental scenarios during construction, including impact assessments and change control


• Liaise with Environment Agency (EA) and Local Planning Authority (LPA) during the permitting process


• Provide subject matter expert guidance on environmental matters to project teams and senior management


• Contribute to project environmental assessment workshops, design reviews, and BAT (Best Available Techniques) optioneering


• Facilitate understanding of UK environmental regulatory context through briefing and training

Key Requirements

• Master's degree in Environmental Science, Environmental Engineering, or related field


• Experience in environmental assessment in an authoring role


• Experience in developing specifications, scopes of work, environmental methodologies, and assessment strategies


• Senior-level expertise in one or more specific areas of environmental analysis (e.g., ecology, soil characteristics, aqueous or gaseous discharge, radioactive contaminant management)


• Experience in environmental assessment governance, regulatory challenge, review, and regulator liaison


• Strong knowledge of UK environmental regulations and permitting processes


• Experience within the nuclear sector highly desirable


• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced environmental professional to take on a challenging and rewarding role in a cutting-edge nuclear project.

Given current workloads, Simpson Booth regrets to inform that in the instance you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of your application, you should consider yourself unsuccessful at this time.