Job Description
Location: Stroud
Salary: Depending on Experience
About The Role
The Development Team is responsible for securing the necessary permissions to enable the construction of renewable energy projects, including but not limited to onshore wind, solar, energy storage and anaerobic digestion (green gas). This involves four main stages:
Identifying suitable sites for renewables in the UK;
Signing an option to lease with the landowner;
Securing a commercially viable grid connection;
Securing an implementable planning permission and discharging planning conditions.
The overall purpose of the role is to complete technical assessments and site designs for new renewable energy projects.
The role will be responsible for:
Assisting and supporting the Principal Design Technician in the completion of feasibility studies, site design and other technical assessments.
Undertake a variety of technical assessments for renewable energy projects.
Identify, understand, and interpret the site constraints and requirements in order to produce the optimum site design and manage the design process throughout the Project.
Create and prepare all figures as required for inclusion within an Environmental Statement/Environmental Report/Planning Application.
Create and prepare option and lease plans and planning condition figures for operating assets to support new applications for solar and storage adjacent to operating assets.
Support the Site Acquisition team with site finding using GIS.
Maintain GIS datasets and data licenses.
Raise Purchase Orders on workday and receipt invoices as required.
About You
Knowledge of the renewable energy industry
Proven technical software skills in AutoCAD and GIS
Excellent written and oral communication skills
A good understanding of the design and infrastructure requirements for renewable energy projects.
Organised and able to manage time and work to meet competing deadlines.
Good team player who is willing to support and assist other team members when required.
Possesses a full driving license and is willing to travel to visit sites and meet with consultants as required.
About Us
What's in it for you
Healthcare plan, life assurance and generous pension contribution
Volunteering day
Hybrid working
Various company discounts (including shops, days out and events)
Holiday of 25 days (plus bank holidays) & ability to buy/sell days
Cycle to work scheme, car pooling and onsite parking available
As a valued member of the team you will be supporting the Group Environmental policy and its associated targets to make the Green Britain Group net carbon neutral by 2025
Flexibility statement
The fast moving nature of the company's business means that from time to time you may be asked to perform duties or tasks outside of your original job description on an ad hoc basis. This allows the company to use it's people in the best possible way at all times and helps the employees to make make their contribution in a changing environment.
Ecotricity is Britain's greenest energy company. When we started back in 1995, we were the first company in the world to provide a new kind of electricity- the green kind.
Our mission was, and remains, to change the way energy is made and used in Britain- by replacing fossil fuels with clean, renewable energy.
We don't just supply green energy, we use the money from our customers' bills to make it ourselves too- we build windmills and sun parks in Britain. We call this 'bills in to mills'. In 2021, we started work on building two new solar parks, and now, in 2022, we're bringing geothermal energy to our customers' fuel mix, a first in the UK. We're also developing green gas mills which will generate 100% green gas from a source that we will never run out of- grass.
We don't just focus on energy though- we built Electric Highways, Britain's leading network of electric vehicle charging points, we helped Forest Green Rovers become the greenest football club in the world, and, in partnership with RSPB, we launched Britain's greenest mobile phone service, Ecotalk + RSPB.
_Ecotricity is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to providing equality for all._
Job Type: Full-time
Benefits:
Additional leave
Casual dress
Company pension
Cycle to work scheme
Employee discount
Life insurance
On-site parking
Referral programme
Store discount
Schedule:
Monday to Friday
Ability to commute/relocate:
Gloucestershire: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (preferred)
Reference ID: 1465