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Core Competencies
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Demonstrates extensive experience in land access management, including negotiation and compliance with UK legal frameworks. Proven ability to lead projects and teams while ensuring quality and stakeholder engagement across infrastructure and energy sectors.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Land Access ManagementStakeholder ManagementNegotiation SkillsGIS ProficiencyProject Management
ATS Keywords
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Hard Skills
Land ReferencingWayleavesRight-Of-Way AcquisitionBudget ManagementRisk AssessmentDCO SubmissionsPlanning ApplicationsDamage SettlementPost-Consent ActivitiesCommercial Awareness
Soft Skills
Team LeadershipMentoringCommunication
Tools & Technologies
GISMicrosoft 365Land Data PlatformsAutomation ToolsAI-Enabled Tools
Industry Keywords
UK InfrastructureEnergy ProjectsUtilitiesCompulsory PurchaseElectricity Act 1989New Roads and Street Works ActPlanning Act 2008NSIPsOffshore TransmissionLarge Renewables Portfolios
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Lead the land access workstream on assigned UK CPD projects, owning strategy, programme, budget, and risk
- Coordinate, negotiate, and manage land access, wayleaves, licences, options, and voluntary agreements
- Secure access across UK infrastructure and energy projects through survey, consenting, construction, and post-consent phases
- Negotiate agreements with landowners, tenants, and agents, including damage settlements and reinstatement
- Manage and quality-assure Book of Reference, Land Interest schedules, and Land Plans for DCO, TWAO, and planning submissions
- Coordinate with GIS and consenting leads and integrate land data with project systems
- Interface with ERM project teams, client project managers, external legal advisers, and landowners/agents
- Identify land access risks, constraints, and mitigation options for feasibility, routing, and consenting decisions
- Ensure compliance with health, safety, quality, ethics, lone-working, and land access risk assessment standards
- Maintain records, audit trails, and engagement evidence for consent examinations, compulsory purchase inquiries, and dispute resolution
- Mentor and develop Land Access Coordinators and Survey Coordinators
- Support profitable service-line growth through repeat business, cross-selling, utilisation, and margin management
Requirements
What you’ll need- Demonstrable experience (typically 7+ years) in land access, land referencing, wayleaves, or right-of-way acquisition on UK linear infrastructure, energy, utilities, or major development projects
- Proven ability to lead landowner negotiations end-to-end, from initial engagement through signed agreement, damage settlement, and post-works reinstatement
- Working knowledge of the UK legal and regulatory framework for land access, including the Electricity Act 1989, New Roads and Street Works Act, Planning Act 2008 (DCO), Compulsory Purchase, and voluntary wayleave regimes
- Experience delivering land referencing outputs for DCO, TWAO, s.36, or planning applications, including Book of Reference and Land Plans
- Strong stakeholder management across landowners, agents, solicitors, statutory undertakers, and client project teams
- Ability to manage concurrent projects, budgets, and workstreams to time, cost, and quality, with commercial awareness of utilisation, margin, and negative variance management
- Confident use of GIS, land data platforms, and Microsoft 365; ability to interpret titles, deeds, and plans
- Experience on NSIPs, offshore transmission onshore works, or large renewables portfolios preferred
- Prior line management or team leadership experience preferred
- Familiarity with post-consent land activities, including construction access, crossings, and reinstatement preferred
- Exposure to global delivery or shared service environments preferred
- Experience using automation, GIS-linked land databases, or AI-enabled tools preferred