SALARY: Starting from £65,000 per annum, depending on skills and experience
REPORTS TO: Senior Land Manager
The Land Manager will support the project development team in relation to all land aspects on a new grid connection project/s comprising of overhead lines, substations and underground cabling through the consenting and subsequent construction phases. The Land Manager will be responsible for the critical land delivery aspect required ahead of Financial Close for allocated projects. The role involves working within a Green GEN Cymru team of Land Managers for all land assembly matters in the development and delivery of major infrastructure projects that will enable renewable energy to be exported to market from new renewable schemes across Wales.
This is an enormously exciting opportunity to join a high-performance team and play a key role in its continued success
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES
* Working as part of the Land Management team, securing all land rights for new electrical overhead lines (OHL’s), substations and underground cable (UGC) infrastructure in Wales, including online and offline elements.
* Positively engage with project managers, designers, support staff and directors to ensure that strategically important programme milestones are achieved, with risks and issues identified and mitigated at an early stage.
* Provide strategic leadership and guidance on development of land acquisition strategy including identification of opportunities to outperform milestones.
* Arrange access to land for non-intrusive and intrusive environmental and engineering surveys as required for the development of Green GEN Cymru projects.
* Secure option agreements to acquire materially affected dwellings.
* Produce and maintain an accurate database covering landowner/ occupier contacts, such that where necessary it will achieve a positive outcome through a CPO process.
* Manage a team of externally appointed land surveyors and agents that will engage directly with landowners and occupiers on behalf of Green GEN Cymru to achieve necessary agreements.
* Ensure that contractors work to the relevant timescale, quality and commercial standards to ensure our high customer standards are maintained.
* Maintain accurate budgets and cost reporting for sharing with project teams and internal finance colleagues.
* Lead on relationship management with external professional support teams of Solicitors, Land agents, etc.
* Own strategically important relationships with key stakeholders, taking proactive steps to positively influence discussions. Provide and support escalation process for challenging engagements.
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