Senior Consents & Environment Manager

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Location:

For this role, we require successful applicants to be based from one of our Scottish locations and you'll be expected to spend 50% of your working week in the office – Perth, Aberdeen, or Inverness.

Salary: £50,100 - £75,100 per annum + car/car allowance + performance related bonus + a range of other benefits to support your family, finances, and wellbeing.

Working Pattern: Permanent | Full Time | Flexible working options available.

SSEN Transmission is seeking a project development focused Senior Consents and Environment Manager who is highly motivated and passionate about delivering some of Scotland’s most iconic national infrastructure projects.

Reporting to the Lead Consents and Environment Manager, you will manage and mentor a small team, ensuring successful delivery across a cluster of projects. You will also lead complex, high profile projects, using your consenting and environmental expertise to drive progress from early development through to consent.

As a major transporter of renewable energy, we connect new onshore generation and deliver power across Scotland and beyond, supporting Scotland’s and the UK’s 2030 net zero targets. Alongside contributing to nationally significant infrastructure, you’ll join a multi award winning team, recently named the Royal Town Planning Institute’s ‘In-House Planning Team of the Year’ for 2025. You’ll benefit from strong development opportunities and long term career progression in a sector that continues to grow.

• Lead, develop, motivate and mentor a small team of Consents and Environment Managers, providing coaching on the business, environmental and planning regulations, consenting requirements, processes, risk management and effective delivery.
• Work closely with wider project teams, offering expert advice on consenting and environmental issues, ensuring governance is followed and clear consenting strategies and programmes are in place.
• Build strong relationships with consultants and contractors, manage scopes, tenders and awards, and oversee multiple consultancy contracts while supporting day to day project delivery.
• Contribute to the Consents and Environment senior management team by developing processes and guidance that improve project delivery, and stay up to date with legislation, consenting requirements and industry developments.
• Develop and manage relationships with external stakeholders (consenting bodies, statutory authorities and key consultees), clearly communicating project needs, building consensus and fostering constructive, long term collaboration.

• Proven experience managing, developing and mentoring environmental professionals, supporting their performance and growth within the wider team.
• Strong project management experience, covering project set up, delivery, consultant management, costs, risk, quality and timelines, with the resilience to adapt quickly to challenges across a large workload.
• Ability to represent SSEN at a senior level, with proven stakeholder management skills, including engaging, influencing and negotiating to build effective relationships.
• An Environmental or Planning degree (ideally with a postgraduate qualification) and experience in a relevant industry such as infrastructure or environmental consultancy, with professional membership desirable.
• Solutions focused, with excellent communication skills and the ability to convey complex issues to varied stakeholders, committed to innovation and improving the consenting approach.

SSE’s purpose is to provide energy needed today while building a better world of energy for tomorrow. We do this by developing, building, operating and investing in electricity infrastructure and businesses needed in the energy transition. Our Transforming for Growth investment plan sees us investing £33bn in critical electricity infrastructure across the five years to 2030.

SSEN Transmission own and operate the electricity transmission network across the north of Scotland. We transport energy from where it is generated to where it is needed, ensuring a safe and reliable electricity supply for the communities we serve. But that’s not all – we’re upgrading…