Chief Manager - Forest

Position Title

Chief Manager - Forest

Position Summary

Responsible for co-ordinating and managing corporate affairs  for Renewable Business

Position Demands

Travel as and when required.

Key Accountabilities / Responsibilities

Planning:

1. Create customized accelerated plan for each project for obtaining Forest and Wildlife (F&WL) clearance to ensure on-time project delivery.
2. Planning of budget to maintain Cost efficiency.
3. Cross functional coordination

Execution:

1. Provide technical support across the Project, supporting Forest and Wildlife team by ensuring robust execution of end-end process as per guidelines for timely availability of Forest & Wildlife Clearances as well as Working Permission by achieving First Time Right (FTR).
2. Ensure strict Environment, Forest and Wildlife compliance of states and MoEF&CC.
3. Explore and identify other levers to crunch timelines. For example - pro-active alignment with forest officials and outsourcing agencies, wherever required to expedite work in case of bandwidth shortage.
4. Strengthen communication strategy by close co-ordination with the Forest officials at different levels for timely and speedy processing of proposals.
5. Candidate should be well conversant about Rules, Regulations and process to obtain Forest, Wildlife and CRZ clearances.
6. Should be well conversant about bidding process i.e., Area assessment, budget preparation, risk assessment etc w.r.t Forest & Wildlife proposals for linear projects.
7. Should be well conversant about preparation and submission of the Forest & Wildlife proposals on PARIVESH.

Monitoring:

1. Quality checks of Forest & Wildlife proposals before each submission to ensure all requirements for proposals have been fulfilled to achieve first time right.
2. Support COE cell to Develop and Review the Environment, Forest and Wildlife Plans, Policies and Legal Frameworks.

About Us

Serentica Renewables is a renewable energy generator that enables energy-intensive industries transition to a clean energy future. We provide assured, firm renewable energy (RE) by developing, operating, and dispatching greenfield solar, wind, energy storage with balancing solutions.

Serentica plans to install ~1500 MW of solar & wind power across multiple sites in the states of the Karnataka, Rajasthan, and Maharashtra where the company has already acquired connectivity approvals. A large part of this capacity will be used to deliver close to 600MW of round-the-clock clean energy to various entities of the Vedanta Group. The company will focus on providing direct green energy solutions to commercial and industrial customers.

Serentica is committed to reversing climate change by decarbonizing energy-intensive industries such as Steel, Cement, Aluminium and Zinc. Industries account for over 30% of total carbon emissions. In the medium-term, Serentica aims to install 5000MW of carbon-free generation capacity coupled with different storage technologies. Eventually, it aims to supply over 15 billion units of clean energy annually and displace 20 million tonnes of CO2 emissions.