Land Manager - Floating Wind

🔒 Confidential Employer
Posted 23 April 2026
LOCATION
Glasgow
TYPE
Full-time
LEVEL
Mid-Senior level
CATEGORY
Energy
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SKILLS

Land Management Negotiation Stakeholder Management Project Management Commercial Agreements Offshore Wind Infrastructure Land Agreements

FULL DESCRIPTION

Location - Glasgow (Hybrid)

Ref - LM OSW GL

The Role

Reporting to the Head of Consents and Land, you will lead all aspects of the Project Land Strategy — negotiating commercial agreements, securing access and survey rights, managing landowner relationships, and ensuring property interests align with engineering, grid and programme requirements across a complex onshore infrastructure package.

Key Responsibilities

  • Negotiating and concluding land agreements for onshore cable, substation and associated infrastructure
  • Securing and managing access, survey, crossing and interface agreements with landowners and third parties
  • Managing external property consultants and legal advisors
  • Collaborating across commercial, legal, engineering and grid teams throughout the project lifecycle
  • Tracking programme, budget and risk, reporting to senior leadership

What You'll Need

  • Degree in a relevant discipline plus around 7-10 years' land management experience in energy or infrastructure, ideally within offshore energy context but linear infrastructure project context is also relevant e.g. roads, pipelines etc.
  • Proven land negotiation skills and an established stakeholder network in Scotland
  • Strong understanding of farming and land management practice
  • Experience on Scottish transmission, offshore wind or linear infrastructure projects (desirable)
  • MRICS or equivalent professional membership (desirable)
  • Full driving licence and willingness to travel regularly across Scotland, particularly Aberdeenshire
  • Eligible to work in the UK

The Package

Competitive salary plus private health insurance, life assurance, company pension, discretionary bonus, hybrid working and a comprehensive wellbeing and benefits package.

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