Greentalent, recruiter specialized in search and selection of professionals and managers in the Energy, Engineering and Environment market, on behalf of an international renewable energy platform, is looking for a:

Permitting Specialist

The permitting specialist will be in charge to manage directly the development of projects in Italy. The candidate will collaborate with in-house and external teams to ensure that projects obtain all the permits, authorizations, and licenses necessary to reach Ready to Build (“RTB”) status, on time. The profile will be in charge to identify risks, to assess the quality of work done by advisors, consultants and engineering service providers, to handle project development aspects of projects managed directly.

The candidate need to be able to represent company’s interests with the local teams and stakeholders under a proactive approach, able to handle sometimes difficult or complex situations. The Candidate should have a good network of connections with the relevant stakeholders in the industry. The candidate must be familiar with the relevant and critical aspects of the development of renewable energy projects, either Storage or Solar and with the applicable regulatory framework, including agrovoltaic considerations.

In detail, the candidate will be in charge of:

• Management of the entire value chain of the permitting phase, following the filling of the documents and the obtainment of the permits.
• Project scheduling management through activities definition, sequencing, resources, and duration estimation.
• Support in structuring all agro-photovoltaic technical and administrative conditions till RtB.
• Control of fulfillment of Company standards and applicable regulatory requirements of project design, engineering, etc under permitting phase
• Liaise with engineering team to obtain required inputs to speed-up the permitting process/acceptance of new opportunities.
• Management of relationships with landlords and tenants.
• Management of community and public relations in respect of the Project.
• Support on the Due Diligences and active red flag solving in order to close and acquire efficiently the projects when reaching RTB, leading the development/administrative side.
• Assure closings are done & executed on time.
• Lead and ensure a suitable handover of Projects RtB to Operations to accelerate NTP obtainment.
• Budgeting and funding management in reporting tool. Delivery and control of the budget committed at project level.
• Assist the finance, engineering, EPC & accounting teams, to prepare BD inputs, information for RfPs, etc.
• Support in the implementation of ESG Company policy at local level in compliance with modern standards, regulations, and best industry practice. Flag to HQ any ESG issues as soon as possible, gather information related to them and where instructed interact with stakeholders if appropriate.
• Ensure the highest compliance about anticorruption practices along the relationship with all the stakeholders.

Requirements:

• Master’s degree in engineering preferably, and alternatively can be considered law or business.
• At least 3 years of energy industry experience in a project development, project administration, project management, deal execution, project finance or other commercial role.
• Full understanding of the development for solar projects and BESS in Italy.
• Able to perform at a high level in a matrixed organization, working in interdepartmental teams to achieve objectives.
• Solid communication skills: capability to perform presentations, establish technical discussions in different cultural environments.
• Fluent in English & Italian. Spanish will be much appreciated.
• Ability to travel through Italy & Spain.

Location: Rome.

Aegis guarantees equal opportunities (L. 903/77) - Aegis Srl, AUT. MIN. Prot. 26543 D. Lgs 276/03