About the role
Balfour Beatty is delivering some of the UK's most significant infrastructure projects, helping connect communities and support the country's transition to a low-carbon future. We're looking for an Agricultural Liaison Officer to join our Cabling team, supporting the successful delivery of a major infrastructure project across East Riding and North Yorkshire.
This is a unique opportunity for someone with agricultural, land management or stakeholder engagement experience to play a key role in managing relationships between our project teams, landowners and client representatives throughout the lifecycle of the project.
What you'll be doing
As Agricultural Liaison Officer, you will act as the primary point of contact between construction teams and landowners, ensuring works are carried out in line with agreed landowner requirements, planning conditions and contractual obligations.
Key responsibilities will include:
- Building and maintaining strong relationships with landowners, occupiers and client representatives.
- Coordinating project activities around harvest schedules and other farming or land management requirements.
- Managing access arrangements and communicating upcoming works to landowners.
- Monitoring construction activities to ensure compliance with landowner agreements, planning conditions and environmental requirements.
- Coordinating pre and post-construction land drainage discussions and restoration activities.
- Managing records, trackers and project documentation relating to landowner engagement.
- Resolving landowner concerns, complaints and defects in a professional and timely manner.
- Supporting the verification and negotiation of compensation claims where required.
- Working closely with operational, environmental and ecology teams to ensure project delivery and regulatory compliance.
Who we're looking for
We're keen to hear from candidates who understand the challenges of working within agricultural environments and can build strong relationships with a wide variety of stakeholders.
- Knowledge of agriculture, drainage, soil management or land management practices.
- Experience engaging with landowners, occupiers, clients or other external stakeholders.
- Strong communication, negotiation and conflict-resolution skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and maintain accurate records.
- Good IT skills, including Microsoft Office applications.
- Understanding of health, safety and environmental requirements.
- Full UK driving licence.
- Formal qualification or practical experience within an agricultural environment.
- Knowledge of civil engineering, utilities or major infrastructure projects.
- Understanding of landowner, grantor or land agent agreements.
- Experience working on underground or overhead utility projects.
- Knowledge of traffic management legislation.
- Ability to work collaboratively across multidisciplinary project teams.
Why work for us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.
Why join us?
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:
- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…
About us
Balfour Beatty’s Power Transmission & Distribution teams work with regional, national and international electricity network owners and operators to provide technical engineering solutions across the full spectrum of the electricity grid, including overhead lines, cabling, substations and distribution networks.
From scoping and feasibility, to design, construction and on-going maintenance, our in-house experts, flexible resources and industry-leading innovations support customers in the development of some of the UK’s most ambitious power transmission and distribution projects.
Diversity and inclusion
At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: [email protected]
Job Reference: BBUK20531
