Mine Heat Licensing Manager

Here at the Coal Authority, we have a fantastic opportunity for an Mine Heat Licensing Manager to join our team.You will join us on a full-time,permanent,and in return, you will receive a competitive salary of GBP31,089.60 to GBP37,998 per annum.

Who we are:

Here at the Coal Authority, we really are a great team to work with. We re united in our passion and commitment to make a better future for people and the environment in mining areas.

We carry out a wide variety of essential services from responding to coal mining hazards, to keeping people and the environment safe from mine water pollution.

We are excited about what our future holds. Our work is helping to develop a new sustainable source of renewable energy for the UK. By harnessing the energy from mine water heat, we hope to play a key role towards helping the UK to meet net-zero emissions by 2050.

We truly are a supportive organisation where we all live and breathe our values. We are inclusive, trusted and progressive in everything that we do.

We embrace a hybrid working model, with an average 2 days a week attendance of our Mansfield office, based on activities and for regular team meetings.

We offer different ways to work flexibly, and the following types of flexibility are usually possible: job share, flexible hours, working from home for part of the week and compressed hours. Please feel free to talk about what flexibility means to you at your interview.

With a genuine commitment to flexible working, we believe that work life balance is incredibly important. There are a number of wonderful benefits that you ll access being a part of our inclusive team including 27.5 days holiday (with an additional 6 days flexi time), an option to work in a hybrid way, a great civil service pension scheme, generous gym membership contribution, and support for your professional membership.

About the Mine Heat Licensing Manager role:

As our Mine Heat Licensing Manager, youwill manage a portfolio of applications for Mine Heat licence agreements and also administer other extant licence agreements that utilise our legacy mine workings. Supporting the wider team in assessing Permit applications to developers and consultants to investigate and treat the Authority s coal estate will also be part of the role, specifically where this relates to mine heat and other emerging technologies.

This role is crucial to supporting the Authority in delivering our commitment to sustainability and as such will involve liaising with our commercial services team and providing specialist internal and external advice to customers and other stakeholders on mine heat licensing matters.

This is an exciting opportunity to join the licensing team as we seek to support sustainable use of our legacy coal workings by developing the area of mine heat licensing. This will require a pragmatic and consultative individual, skilled in stakeholder management and with the vision to support development of new and emerging technologies utilising mine workings.

About our Mine Heat Licensing Manager:

To be successful as our Mine Heat Licensing Manager, you will need to/have:

• Some experience in project management, preferably in a regulatory landscape. Furthermore, you will be skilled in negotiation and stakeholder management with a can-do attitude
• Ideally have experience of dealing with other public bodies, commercial consultants and the general public
• Knowledge of mining legacy issues, and forms of geological / mapping data would be preferable, as well as knowledge of the principles of legal agreements and sustainable development relating to infrastructure

Successful candidates must pass basic security checks and will be subject to UK Immigration requirements.

For more information about the Mine Heat Licensing Manager role please refer to the attached job description on our site.

If you believe you are the right candidate for the role of our Mine Heat Licensing Manager, then please click apply now! We d love to hear from you.

Closing date for the Mine Heat Licensing Manager: Wednesday 23rd August 2022

We would love to respond to all candidates, however due to the high volumes we receive, only candidates invited to interview will be contacted. Therefore, if you have not heard anything within 2 weeks of the closing date, please consider your application unsuccessful. We do encourage you to keep an eye on our website and see if there are any other roles that may be suitable for you.