Offshore Consent Advisor

 

Location - UK (Remote)

Ref - OWSCA

Salary - Competitive Day Rate Depending on Experience

Ventus is working with a leading offshore wind developer to appoint an Offshore Consent Advisor.

The Offshore Consent Advisor is responsible for supporting the Offshore Consent Lead deliver the offshore consenting strategy. The objective of the role includes supporting the achievement of a buildable consent for the relevant offshore elements of the Project, securing a uniform approach to authorities/regulators and stakeholders and management of the offshore deliverables from consultants.

Contract duration: 12 months

Key responsibilities:

  • Responsible for delivering defined work packages to support the offshore elements of the DCO and Marine Licences for the project

  • Reviewing the deliverables of the offshore consultants in the responsible areas as required

  • Utilising and administering  QA processes, tracking and monitoring processes for the offshore deliverables on the project.

  • Ensure strong cooperation within the offshore team for all offshore packages

  • Contractor and budget management for relevant scopes of work

  • Input and support Consent manager on resource needs, programme and risks in relation to the offshore elements

  • Provide updates on key show stoppers on the offshore workstreams to the Offshore Consent Lead 

  • Close coordination with other project stakeholders as directed by the Consent Lead

Key tasks

  • Deliver buildable consent of the onshore elements of the project on time and to budget according to the programme

  • Input and influence project consent strategy for the onshore elements and feed to the Consent Manager, considering company strategic aspects to optimise individual project consent. Consenting strategy includes: stakeholder engagement, authority processes, sequence of activities, project risks, approach to procurement,

  • Manage consenting risk continually at project level. Clear and proactive communication of risk to the project, and to the line/strategic team to prevent issues in the project and flags risks that could impact across the  portfolio;

  • Drive best in class approach to external onshore stakeholder engagement. Manage and perform high level stakeholder engagement with key stakeholders on relevant project issues via the Stakeholder Engagement Manager and consultants resulting in final Statements of Common Ground

  • Identify and feed back to the Consent Manger project lessons learned

  • Provide expert advice on onshore consent and environmental project issues to maximise competitiveness to the project packages

  • Support Land Manager to secure access to survey works and landowner liaison

ContractMichaela Macphie