Senior Development Manager

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Senior Development Manager

Department: Development

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: UK - London

Compensation: GBP 85,000 - GBP 105,000 / year

Description

Your Mission

The Senior Development Manager role is critical to the success of Field's UK pipeline of battery energy storage system projects. In this role, you will be responsible for the project management of a number of our greenfield development projects, covering all areas of project management and taking projects from concept design phase through to construction. You will deliver a pipeline of ready-to-build projects ready for handover to construction.

The right candidate should have a strong consenting background and be fully competent in delivering high quality planning applications. With responsibility for delivering all elements of a number of development projects, candidates will also need strong project management skills and knowledge of necessary land agreements and experience in landowner negotiations. Experience in battery energy storage systems (BESS) and an associated knowledge of grid connections and BESS design is highly desirable.

Key Responsibilities

This is a broad and varied role with the opportunity to have massive impact. Key responsibilities include:

• Project management of a number of our greenfield development projects, including:
  • Creation and ongoing management of project programmes to ensure timely delivery of planning applications;
  • Leadership and coordination of core project teams comprising design, grid and land work packages;
  • Budget and risk management; and
  • Reporting and escalation

• Delivery of high quality planning applications for greenfield projects including:
  • Procurement and day-to-day management of external environmental and planning consultants to deliver all assessments needed to support a planning application; and
  • Stakeholder engagement with key statutory consultees and local communities

• Design management
  • Working knowledge of relevant civils, electrical and safety design requirements for BESS;
  • Management of external consultants to deliver site investigations and surveys to inform site design; and
  • Coordination of in-house grid and design teams to act as Principle Designer in developing site specific designs suitable for planning.

• Landowner engagement, including:
  • Experience in all necessary land agreements required for development projects;
  • Working with in-house land teams to ensure that land agreements are secured in line with project programmes; and
  • Landowner liaison.

• Team and line management, including formal management of a number of Development team members.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Strong and demonstrable experience in the project development and consents, ideally within the renewable energy industry
• Project management skills, including experience in programme, budget and risk management
• Strong understanding of consenting regimes within the UK, including environmental assessments
• Experience in managing a project team and leadership skills
• Experience of managing external consultants and stakeholder engagement
• General understanding of grid, design and land elements of project development in order to manage inputs from technical specialists
• BESS experience highly desirable

Benefits

Salary: GBP 85,000 - GBP 100,000

We're offering a competitive compensation package, including participation in our employee share scheme which rewards all employees for the growth of the business.

Other benefits include

• Enhanced parental leave, for all new parents:
  • 6 months fully paid primary carer leave
  • 3 months fully paid secondary carer leave
  • 10 days fully paid leave for fertility treatment
• Up to 10% company wide bonus based on company performance
• Hybrid working (blend of home and office working to suit individual needs)
• Nest pension (8% combined contributions) on qualifying earnings
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• GBP 2,000 annual learning & development budget to spend on whatever best supports your growth
• 1 month a year 'work from anywhere in the world' policy
• Spill: our mental health benefit allowing every Fielder access to equal and unrestricted therapy and resources
• Green leave: paid time off to do something good for the environment
• Fun co-working office space in Shoreditch, London
• Dog friendly office (with some regular furry friends already in the team)
• Free team lunch once a week
• Regular team socials
• Birthday carbon offset: a gift from Field to the world to celebrate your birthday
• & many more on the way!