Murphy is recruiting for a Environment & Consents Manager to work with the Energy Team on the SSE ASTI Framework.

Our business is well-known for its extensive in-house expertise, experience, and continuous drive to innovate within the industry to create added value for all our customers. Throughout our history we have strived to challenge the norm and incorporate a wide range of new technologies and capabilities to ensure we meet the ever-changing markets and demands. Today we support groundbreaking transmission and distribution projects in four countries - ensuring their energy security for decades to come.

We offer a wide range of services including design, construction and commissioning. We deliver Engineering, Procurement & Construction (EPC) projects serving both regulated and private customers along with technical and engineering solutions within the conventional power and energy transition markets. Our continual drive to innovate, while encouraging sustainability, ensures we remain at the forefront of the industry, and is demonstrated in our long-standing relationships with major energy providers in multiple countries.

A day in the life of a Murphy Environment & Consents Manager:

• Lead on the delivery of planning pre-commencement condition discharge in relation to environmental deliverables
• Liaise with technical specialist to ensure planning discharge requirements are obtained and then implement systems to demonstrate compliance with conditions
• Identify and manage environmental and consenting risks
• Take a lead in environmental consenting/permitting such as water discharge consenting with SEPA.
• Engage with external stakeholders, including statutory consultees, regulators and landowners to support project delivery
• Co-ordinate ecology consenting with ecology specialists for protected species and sites and implement measures to ensure compliance
• Establish and provide Leadership in best practice in environmental and consenting matters in conjunction with the wider E&S functions and Project integration team across multiple projects
• Ensure management controls are in place so that all personnel are aware of their statutory duties and responsibilities, and to provide advice as and when required.
• Lead, partake and oversee accident / incident investigations in accordance with the Company procedure and, analysing all data, making recommendations to avoid any reoccurrences.
• Collate & review environmental statistics to identify trends and areas for improvement.  
• Develop and implement environmental campaigns and improvement plans as part of the project integration team across multiple projects
• Provide reports, presentations, and information as directed by the Energy BU Environment function lead
• Review and scoring of supply chain ITT submissions for Environmental proposals
• Developing training programmes to raise environmental awareness across the projects
• Work closely with the Sustainability Manager to imbed E&S improvements across all delivery teams

Still interested, does this sound like you?

• Full/Chartered or Practitioner member of IEMA desirable
• Understanding environmental risk mitigation on significant construction projects such as Waste management, Water management and pollution prevention, Statutory nuisance, Contaminated land,
• Ecological mitigation, Consents, licencing and Biodiversity Net Gain
• Experience in discharging EIA planning consent requirements
• Previous experience in working with SEPA Regulations
• Experience in Environmental Incident Management and Investigation