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The Role

• Being the hub of all the Development activities for allocated projects

• Leading in identification of landowners regarding initial engagement

• Leading in negotiations of Exclusivity Agreements, HoTs, Option-To-Lease

• Being responsible for negotiating and managing commercial contracts with all stakeholders, landowners, utility companies and LPA to secure a good position

• Assisting in coordination of 3rd party technical contractors and utilities activities, not limited to Landowners, Solicitors, Clients, LPA, TA etc.

• Negotiating with DNOs & National Grid regarding reasonable commercial payment milestones in line with project development process

• Working closely with the planning department and supporting and understanding various scopes of work to be conducted by 3rd party planning consultants and managing them.

• Managing and tracking all allocated projects from inception to ‘Ready to Build’ stage

• By assisting to get all the mitigation signed off from the council, before, during and after construction

The Individual:

• 6-8 years’ experience within utility scale Solar PV / renewables industry in development, land consultant, planning consultant

• Strong analytical, planning & organisational skills, continuous improvement.

• Excellent communication skills: written and oral; face to face and telephone.

• Advanced Excel (data manipulation) and Word skills.

• Ability to prioritise in continually changing environment and to multi-task.

• Education to Degree level preferably in an engineering discipline.