Consents Advisor - Licensing

Consent Advisor - Licensing
OFW Developer
Remote Working (UK)
Freelance (Outside IR35)
Up to £500 per day
12 Month Contract (renewable)

The Consent Advisor (licensing) is a cross-project role which will support the Projects survey effort.  This will involve marine licensing and could include onshore consents and licences if required.
You will work closely with the Consent Discharge Offshore Lead to deliver consents and licences necessary to ensure that the JVs survey strategy can be executed on schedule as planned. 
Whilst this role is primarily a consents delivery role and requires knowledge of onshore and offshore consent and licensing processes and requirements, it will involve a high degree of cross project/package interaction and requires excellent interpersonal skills and organisation.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for preparing, submitting and negotiating marine licences and other consents and licences required for onshore and offshore surveys.
• Responsible for ensuring that the terms and conditions of all licences and consents are disseminated to the relevant survey team in a timely and accessible manner to facilitate the provision of documentation and briefings to vessels and survey contractors.
• Responsible for tracking and monitoring consents compliance before during and after surveys.

Key Tasks
 

• Under the guidance of the Consent Discharge Offshore Lead ensure develop a consenting strategy for Project survey licensing.
• Consolidate and develop appropriate trackers and other monitoring tools necessary to manage the licensing and consenting of survey activities including pre and post application activities.
• Ensure that internal processes are documented, socialised with and followed by the wider project team as needed.
• Map the critical path with interfaces into the project schedule.  Identifying and sharing lessons learned where possible.
• Attend go/no-go and /or mobilisation meetings as required to talk to consenting matters
• Undertake internal compliance checking through desktop and site work as required and liaise with regulators and consultees in respect of any queries regarding compliance.
• Develop strong relationships with the Project survey team, relevant survey managers, health and safety team and relevant consent team members to ensure that consenting and environmental risks are identified and managed.  This may include hosting planned meetings and drop-in sessions for team members as well as responding to ad hoc short notice queries from the survey managers.
• Manage the delivery of inputs such as scopes of work from the survey managers to ensure that applications are sufficiently scoped to support survey delivery including flexibility as required.
• Manage external environmental consultants as required to obtain necessary licences and consents including management of budget, schedule and quality.

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