Description

As a Land Manager, you'll lead a team of Land Officers and Suppliers to deliver access to facilitate a wide range of maintenance and capital works on existing National Grid assets, both overhead and underground, and provide expert advice and support to Asset Operations (AO) teams.

• Support National Grid’s safety culture and show visible leadership to ensure that safety is foremost in all activities.
• Lead and support a team of Land Officers to drive forward the delivery of land access across a wide portfolio of projects from development to delivery to AO desired programme.
• Report on programme, key milestone delivery, risk, contract and financial management on a regular basis. This includes being able to identify and distil complex land issues in a succinct and clear way in regular reports to the SI leadership team and ET/SI Project Directors.
• Undertake long term work planning and ensure project resource requirements are identified, recruited and sufficiently trained ahead of need whilst minimising the risk of being over-resourced.
• Ensure work is delivered in accordance with National Grid’s policies, processes and frameworks for the acquisition of land and land rights.
• Manage the supply chain in the delivery of the required workstreams.

Requirements

This role welcomes applicants UK wide, and we offer hybrid working from office and home. You'll be flexible to weekly travel throughout England and Wales as required. You'll also have a driving licence that permits you to drive in the UK.

• Experience of working collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams (engineering, legal, consenting) to support overall project delivery.
• Excellent interpersonal, influencing and communication skills to ensure effective engagement with all relevant stakeholders (internally and externally).
• Technical understanding, knowledge and experience of the legal and regulatory parameters that statutory undertakers work within, including the range of statutory powers available, understanding how these then relate to the relevant project strategy and approach.
• Experience of managing (or willingness to develop relevant skills) a diverse, geographically dispersed team to deliver a productive and sustainable work environment.
• Good working knowledge of the Electricity Act 1989 and the different types of voluntary land agreements used to secure National Grid assets or equivalent.
• Experience of providing project and contract management services.
• Experience of analysing data from a variety of sources and using this to support business decisions.

Benefits

Our investment in Strategic Infrastructure via The Great Grid Upgrade will mean more home-grown power, greater energy security and a cleaner future.

• A generous contributory pension scheme - we will double-match your contribution to a maximum company contribution of 12%.
• Family care benefits including a back-up care service for when your usual care arrangements fall through (six paid days each year as standard with the option to purchase further days).
• 28 days annual leave plus eight statutory days.
• Access to flexible benefits such as a share incentive plan, salary sacrifice car and technology schemes, support via employee assistance lines and matched charity giving to name a few.
• An annual performance bonus of up to 30% of your eligible earnings in the performance year.
• Access to apps that support health, fitness and wellbeing.
• Job requirement car.
• Financial support to help cover the cost of professional membership subscriptions, course fees, books, exam fees and time off for study leave - so long as it's relevant to your role.
• The option to buy additional or sell holiday days.
• A competitive salary between £65,000 - £75,000 – dependent on capability.

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance