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