Project Manager Consents, Permitting and Licensing - #192831

Project Manager: Consents, Permitting and Licensing (CEZ Programme)

About the role

We’re looking for a Project Manager to lead and deliver Consents, Permitting and Licensing activities across our CEZ programme.

You’ll play a critical role in ensuring the successful delivery of planning and regulatory requirements within a highly regulated environment. You’ll bring structure, leadership, and clarity across complex workstreams, helping to enable programme success.

We need you to:

• Plan, manage and deliver consents, permitting and licensing activities aligned to programme objectives
• Support delivery of key regulatory frameworks including Development Consent Orders (DCO), TCPAs, Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA) and Environmental Permits
• Collaborate across engineering, architecture, operations and logistics teams to ensure timely submissions and compliance

What you’ll be doing

We need you to:

• Lead delivery and monitoring of consents, permitting and licensing activities
• Manage project plans, risks, dependencies and reporting (including RAG status updates)
• Work closely with internal teams and external stakeholders including regulators, local authorities and partners
• Ensure projects are delivered on time, cost and quality targets
• Drive continuous improvement and embed best practice across delivery

What we’re looking for

We’d love to hear from you if you bring:

• Strong project management experience within complex or regulated environments
• Experience delivering multi-year, multi-million-pound engineering programmes
• Knowledge of planning, consenting or licensing frameworks within infrastructure, energy or nuclear sectors
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills across all organisational levels

Essential skills & experience

We need you to have:

• Experience managing complex engineering or infrastructure projects
• Strong capability in planning, risk, budget and change management
• Ability to manage multiple workstreams in a fast-paced environment
• Fluency in Czech language
• Willingness to undertake frequent international travel
• Experience within nuclear, energy or other highly regulated sectors

Desirable

It’s a bonus if you also have:

• Exposure to UK or European consents, permitting or licensing frameworks
• Familiarity with Primavera P6, MS Project, SAP, Excel, Power BI or similar tools
• Professional accreditation (e.g. APM PMQ or equivalent)

Qualifications

We’re looking for:

• Engineering degree (or equivalent experience)
• Project Management qualification (or equivalent experience)

Location & flexibility

• Any Rolls-Royce SMR location
• Flexible and part-time working options available
• Frequent international travel required (including travel to the Czech Republic)

Salary & benefits

• £50,650 - £66,500
• £2,200 flexible benefits allowance
• 12.5% bonus opportunity
• 6x pensionable life assurance
• 50% income protection
• 28 days holiday plus bank holidays
• £250 new joiner payment
• Flexible and part-time working options available

Pay Range:

Why Join Us?

You’ll be joining a forward-thinking organisation that values transparency, fairness, and innovation. We offer:

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  A flexible, inclusive, and supportive working environment.
• Opportunities for career growth in a rapidly scaling business.
• A culture that values diversity, innovation, and continuous learning.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all backgrounds. Inclusivity is important to us, and as a Disability Confident organisation, we are committed to fair, supportive, and continually improving recruitment practices that ensure everyone has the opportunity to thrive.

Confidence can sometimes hold us back from applying for a job. But we'll let you in on a secret: there's no such thing as a 'perfect' candidate. If you feel you meet 75% of the requirements for this role, we would love to hear from you.

Also, if you are considering a career move or a sector-jump, please get in touch – we welcome applications from people with transferable skills.

Our Application Process

Due to the safety regulations within the nuclear industry, applicants will be required to participate in additional screening. These are:

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  Obtaining Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) clearance
• Satisfactory completion of a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check
• Satisfactory completion of a basic financial probity check

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