Environmental Manager Groningen & Drenthe

Project overview

For our end client Enexis, Harvey Nash is looking for an Environmental Manager Groningen & Drenthe.

Please note! Please send applications via the website, including the following information:

Dutch CV

Availability in hours per week

Has the candidate worked for Enexis before?

Holiday plans within the next 3 months

Expected start date: ASAP

Duration of the assignment: 12 months

Option for extension: Yes

Number of hours per week: 28-40

Location of work: Kolham

On-site or from home: 50/50

Business kilometers: N/A

Freelancer possible: No

Direct Hire: No

Deadline for proposing candidates: 04-11-2026, 16:00

Job scale: 15

Target rate (all-in, including travel and parking costs and any overnight costs, excluding VAT): €92

Date of intake interview at Enexis online or on-site: TBD

Interview partners: TBD

Screening type: Basic

With your energy, it's possible

In this versatile role, you are responsible for the environment during the preparatory (project management) and/or execution (participation) phase of a project.

You will provide a participation and communication strategy, monitor issue management, and organize stakeholder management. You will safeguard the wishes and technical requirements that you gather from the environment for the project.

For large-scale projects, you will create the conditions for optimal collaboration with municipalities, partners, fellow grid operators, and possibly contractors.

You are the point of contact for the environment for the project.

This is how you will tackle this challenge

For every project, you will keep the right stakeholders engaged. You will maintain contact with municipalities, project leaders, and contractors. Equally important: you involve the environment in the project and thus know who is experiencing inconvenience and how. From the outset, you will share the right information in an appropriate manner with residents, local businesses, and landowners who have to give up a plot of land. This can be by letter or with a residents' evening. But also by going into more depth during a kitchen table conversation with a resident.

What makes your job even more interesting is the variety of projects you work on simultaneously in different locations within Enexis's service area. From the new construction of a transport substation to a small adjustment in a voltage substation in a residential area. Regardless of how big or small a project is, you will always have a clear understanding of what could go wrong and what solution belongs with it. The most beautiful part of your role as an environmental manager is that, together with your colleagues, you make an important contribution to the energy transition in the Netherlands!

This is how you approach it

You are solution-oriented and always have a plan ready to tackle an assignment. And backup plans to respond to the risks you foresee. With empathy and a good political antenna, you know how to give all stakeholders the right attention and inform them at the right time. You are open to criticism, which you value and translate into actions if necessary. Collaboration is key to your success. You can be both decisive and vulnerable to achieve the desired result. You communicate clearly and concisely, maintain an overview, and get energy from your coordinating role within Enexis and with the environment.

Furthermore, you have:

You have a relevant HBO or university degree, for example in communication, public administration, or spatial planning.

You have experience as an environmental manager and thus several years of experience in processes and participation around area developments, preferably in large complex projects.

You have affinity with (energy) technology.

You put your shoulders to the wheel with...

Your colleagues from the Energy System & Environment department. Here you form a team with colleagues with whom you work closely. Think of partners, strategic advisors, experts, relationship managers, spatial planning lawyers, and colleagues from land affairs. We are committed to supporting and stimulating regional authorities and municipalities in the process of developing plans for the energy transition and the spatial integration of the necessary assets.

We look forward to you joining our team: 'Building a sustainable energy supply and involving the environment in it, that's what makes this job so great. And you do it together with passionate colleagues who want to make something beautiful out of every project. That gives a project wings'. For every assignment, you are part of a project team. Depending on the phase of a project, you work with a project leader, a legal planner/urban planner, a permit advisor, and a land agent and one or more engineers. All professionals who understand the importance of connection with the environment.

They are therefore open to your input, advice, and ideas.

Interested? We would like to receive a CV and the following information (without this information, the CV will not be processed):

First possible start date

All-in rate (incl. travel, parking costs and any overnight costs, excl. VAT)

Project details

Motivation

Two references will be requested during onboarding

By responding to this request, the Contractor declares to have taken note of and agrees with the General Terms and Conditions for Hiring or General Terms and Conditions for Independent Professionals of Harvey Nash and the associated Client Appendix Enexis. These can be found at www.harveynash.nl/Enexis

• Start: ZSM
• Duration: 12 maanden
• Remote: hybrid
• Location: Groningen, NL
• Languages: Dutch