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Senior Onshore Wind Development Lead
November 8, 2022 | Comments Off on Senior Onshore Wind Development Lead
Senior Onshore Wind Development Lead
Scotland based
Excellent salary - full time, permanent position
Renewco are looking for a wind developer to join the team. You'll be helping to develop Renewco Power's on shore wind pipeline business in the UK, initially focusing on prospecting a portfolio of 20+ projects and converting these into over 1GW of ready to build onshore wind projects with complementary hybrid technologies.
If you are a passionate renewable energy developer with a proven track record of leading and managing multi-disciplinary project teams then we want to hear from you.
The role
The role will involve site selection activities, development and implementation of EIA scoping strategies, project management of EIA studies, defining and managing surveys works and appropriate mitigation, obtaining consents, statutory stakeholder engagement, community engagement, project financial approvals and budgetary control. You'll be leading communication with regulators, local communities, consultants and landowners and land agent to manage and complete all the land agreements associated with large scale renewable developments.
Key responsibilities:
- To manage projects from concept through the development phases ensuring that all consents are secured for deliverable project with competitive LCOE's.
- Identify, deploy and manage appropriate human resource from appointed consultants on a project basis.
- Lead and recommend appropriate development strategies to the Head of Development.
- Lead and provide input to all commercial agreements and contracts including leading solicitors and land agents to conclude option and lease agreements.
- Agreement, management and forecasting of necessary budgets including ensuring understanding of strategic risks, issues, opportunities, impacts and progress.
- Manage and actively identify all critical risks, issues and impacts of the project specifically the adequate application of and adherence to both statutory and corporate health, safety and environmental requirements.
- Negotiate and lead interfaces with all key stakeholders.
- Responsible for all aspects of project management with consultants/contractors.
- Advise the Head of Development, CEO and members of Renewco's Board on the impact of technical/specialist risks and issues and the viability of solutions recommended.
- Present decisions and recommendations to the Board/HOD and CEO in a structured and robust manner.
- Balance technical detail with commercial needs and provide recommendations after accounting for all risks.
Our ideal candidate will have:
- A strong track record in project development.
- Great interpersonal skills.
- Budget management experience.
- Degree or equivalent experience in Environmental Management, Planning, Environmental Engineering, Environmental Science, Land Management/Surveying or relevant qualification in obtaining legal consents.
- Proven project development experience in renewable energy developments (preferably onshore wind at utility scale).
- Experience and understanding of planning system and consenting regimes across the UK and ROI and land agreements for renewable energy developments.
- Highly developed negotiation skills.
Applicants with 10 plus years' experience in renewable energy project development are likely to have the required level of experience to be successful in this role.
This is a senior role, with sizeable projects, so without the right level of experience applicants can not be progressed.
About Renewco Power
Renewco Power is a newly formed renewable power business, with plans to become a leading European clean energy platform. Renewco will focus on developing utility-scale solar, wind and storage assets across Europe and U.S, with the aim of maximising the potential in clean energy projects. The company is targeting the development of over 4GW of renewable assets within five years.
Renewco's founders are a highly experienced and entrepreneurial group whose founders have over 100 years of combined renewables development and investment experience, having successfully developed more than 10GW+ of renewables in over 50 countries, raising more than £2 billion to finance these assets in the process.
Renewco Power was launched with a £24 million (€28 million) investment from Corran Capital who raised cornerstone funding from FT-SE 100 utility, SSE plc. A further £24m was raised to support the acquisition and development of a 1-3GW pipeline of solar projects in the US. SSE's financial support will enable Renewco to accelerate the implementation of the team's high growth strategy. Renewco will be based in Scotland, with hubs in London and a selection of European countries.
By applying for this role, your details will be sent to Ortolan People, who are engaged to provide recruitment support in processing applications. We will endeavour to respond to all applicants within three working days. Occasionally for roles with a very high volume of applicants, this may not be possible.