Permitting Coordinator

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• Liaising with the governance bodies and stakeholders until a complete understanding of the regulatory requirements applicable to the permits process.
• Maintain a fluent channel of communication with the functional permitting teams in the organization, representing the construction/delivery team in the corresponding meetings and workshops.
• Liaise and coordinate with the requirements management team to assure the requirements derived from the permits and their processes are properly traced, managed, followed and validated.
• Provide technical advice to the project/delivery/construction director and rest of the team members on the delivery team in all related with the permits and governance deriving and as result of the project construction activities.
• Coordinate with other projects/packages within the organization in all related with permits, creating and getting the best of the synergies in the permits processes.
• Liaise with (sub)contractors to ensure all permits are issued without negative effect in the works.
• Analise the schedule and anticipate the production of all necessary deliverables to get the permits on time preventing delays in the construction works.
• Inform the project/delivery/construction team of the obligations derived from the getting the permits and look after avoiding deviations from the required conditions.
• Maintain a proper register/track and control of all the permits and the associated required documentation.
• Ensure that all permits are withdraw when no further required and applicable.
• Work together with the construction and QA/QC team to ensure traceability of all permits related documentation.
• Work together with the safety, construction and lifting team to keep high standards of safety on the site.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• Previous experience in permitting/governance in construction projects.
• Excellent knowledge and common-sense on permitting processes on the construction sites.
• Technical expertise needed to handle all of the various problems, issues and constraints that may arise as result of the application and implementation of the permits related with construction activities.
• Good skills in the identification and evaluation of the risks associated with his field.
• Good understanding of the construction constraints and priorities during the construction activities.
• Ability to read and correctly interpret technical drawings, schematics, method of statements, inspections and test procedures, quality plans, regulations, requirements, and other construction related documentation.
• Good knowledge of QA processes on the construction. Used to produce, follow and monitor processes.
• Ability to filter the information that is relevant and escalate it when necessary.
• Ability to use the usual software in the industry: Windows, Office, CAD
• Team-working.
• Previous experience and knowledge on environmental aspects and permits associated with construction activities will be considered a plus.
• Previous experience in Mega/Giga projects will be considered a plus.

Worker Type

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