Description of the mission

Enhar has an exciting opportunity for an experienced and committed Development Approvals Manager to join our growing team.

About us

Enhar's mission is to increase the pace of solar farm and battery (BESS) deployment in Australia through site origination, high integrity land agreements and efficient development approvals.

We’ve proven ourselves over 15 years business with steady growth and expansion of our reputation and client base. Our team are passionate about deploying renewable energy and storage technology to solve the climate crisis. The renewable energy revolution must be both rapid and durable and that is what we are all about.

About the Role

Your Strategic Objectives are:

· Prepare planning application or planning feasibility reports for 5-10 projects per year totaling over 500MW

· Increase Enhar’s speed and quality of project development approval outcomes

Your Success Factors include the following regular activities:

· Prepare and lodge development approval applications

· Communicate with subcontractors, internal team and our clients to drive fast outcomes avoiding delays to development approvals

· Assist business development and prepare quotations for further work from ideal clients

Your Core Competencies are:

Fast, accurate, focussed
Decisive project manager willing to take control of projects and stakeholders to drive outcomes in development approvals
Convert site constraint complexities into simple workable solutions and agreements which stakeholders accept
Take responsibility for planning permit outcomes and timeframes and take a strong pride in fast efficient delivery
Write concise, effective planning permit applications and handle the administration of planning permits
Town and country planning experience and qualifications
Environmental assessment experience
Ability to obtain high quality drawings to accompany planning applications from our in-house team of project draftsmen, hold them to high standards on time and quality
Establish relationships with subcontract environmental consultants relevant to solar/BESS
Write very well structured, clear reports, planning applications in fluent English with correct grammar and spelling
Highly competent in software for remote working including Outlook, Outlook shared calendar, Zoom meetings, Teams meetings, cloud based project management systems, weekly timesheet recording, cloud file management especially Dropbox, ability to use phone for above functions
Ability to sketch drawings and diagrams to instruct our drafting team

Profile

Qualifications you Must Have:

· Qualification in either Urban Planning or Environmental Planning and assessment for permits

· Experience working as a consult for planning approvals of renewable/storage developer companies or government approval departments

· Experienced in solar farm and BESS project planning permits

· Experience in development approvals in Australia such as NSW, SA, QLD or VIC

· Understanding of, or ability to learn fast the planning permit regulations and approvals process relating to solar and BESS projects in our target regions: NSW, SA, VIC and QLD

· At least 10+ years professoinal experience including 5+ years working with planning permits including renewable energy or storage projects, either as approving authority or applicant or both.

· Professional level English speaking, writing and reading skills

· Client facing skills, charisma, ability to built trust and rapport with clients

· Philippines based working from home

Qualifications we’d like you to have:

· Member of professional associations relating to planning and/or environmental assessment

· Good understanding of technology of solar farms and BESS projects functionality and technical components and footprint layouts

Experience with land acquisition

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Enhar

Our mission is to raise the standard of the solar and smart energy industry through excellence in project development, engineering and quality management.

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Enhar

Our mission is to raise the standard of the solar and smart energy industry through excellence in project development, engineering and quality management.

Website
Company
Between 15 and 50 persons
Others

Enhar did not yet communicate its impact measurement.

This structure did not communicate to us the labels or certifications that it was able to obtain.

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