What you’ll do

• Be the owner for our planning service. You’ll be responsible for the delivery of successful applications for our customers as well as spearheading projects to ease planning requirements for customers installing low carbon tech.
• Submit, advise on and track all planning applications.
• Report on the performance of our planning function, ensuring applications are completed quickly and accurately for our customers.
• Share your extensive knowledge with our sales & customer support teams to enable them to have well-informed conversations with our customers.
• Lead a team of AutoCAD technicians and planning support specialists to ensure applications & designs meet required specifications and standards.
• Undertake projects to deliver service improvements to our planning function and strive for continuous improvement.

What you’ll need

• A recognised degree or relevant experience in UK planning policies & applications.
• Comprehensive knowledge & understanding of the professional & practical application of planning legislation, policy, procedures and related planning matters. Experience providing professional advice in a local authority context is preferred.
• To be able to effectively lead and inspire a team - this is key!
• To be a starter-finisher, & a go-getter, with a drive to seek out improvements and deliver them.
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy.
• To be a team player and relationship builder. The ability to build great working relationships with people across cultures and perspectives.
• To be positive and proactive, and energised by working in a fast-paced environment characterised by constant change. You think creatively and logically to react to changes in strategy.
• A high level of adaptability and agility to manage multiple projects at one time (we are growing quickly!)
• To be someone who establishes and works with a network quickly to deliver promptly, with a focus on quality and delivery
• You will be analytical, seeking out data and using this to inform your decisions
• Energy industry experience is desirable but by no means essential! You’ll quickly pick up what you need to know.
• AutoCAD experience is desirable but not essential.

Why else you’ll love it here

• Wondering what the salary for this role is? Just ask us! On a call with one of our recruiters it’s something we always cover as we genuinely want to match your experience with the correct salary. The reason why we don’t advertise is because we honestly have a degree of flexibility and would never want salary to be a reason why someone doesn’t apply to Octopus - what’s more important to us is finding the right octofit!
• Octopus Energy is a unique culture. An organisation where people learn, decide, and build quicker. Where people work with autonomy, alongside a wide range of amazing co-owners, on projects that break new ground. We want your hard work to be rewarded with perks you actually care about! We won best company to work for in 2022, on Glassdoor we we’re voted 50 best places to work in 2022 and our Group CEO, Greg has recorded a podcast about our culture and how we empower our people 
• Visit our perks hub - Octopus Employee Benefits