Enhar has an exciting opportunity for an experienced and efficient Land Acquisition Manager to join our growing team.
Our vision is to be the leading renewable energy and storage consultant for origination, design and approval services in Oceania, through outstanding partnerships with developers, landowners and regulatory authorities.
Our mission is to accelerate the deployment of renewable and storage projects in Australia through high integrity land agreements and effective permit approvals.
Our values are: Excellence, inclusiveness, enthusiasm, making a difference, innovation, teamwork, transparency, clarity and cohesion.
They 3 key skills you must have are:
1. Great at talking to rural landowners and understanding them
2. Understanding of wind farm and battery infrastructure, you have worked and spent time on such sites, with some prior experience of wind farm and/or battery land deals acting for either the developers, landowners or real estate agents.
3. Good at computers and organising online documentation including carefully editing land agreement documents and using cloud software to interact with your colleagues when working from home or on work trips. You are a person your older family members can come to for help with computers.
Desirable skills include:
1. Experience with negotiating wind farm and/or battery land agreements
2. Experience with site selection for wind farms and/or battery or solar projects, transmission lines in NSW, QLD or other states
3. Computer based mapping experience for site identification. We have a GIS team who will provide detailed maps for you but if you understand and can do some basic mapping it will help.
You have project management skills with proven track record in taking responsibility for project outcomes including: land agreements successfully negotiated and executed. Experience in wind farming is highly regarded, BESS and solar also useful, with strong understanding of the factors which make a robust 'investable' land agreement which host landowners are also comfortable with.
Our client project pipeline is primarily in QLD and NSW. Our head office is in Melbourne but you can be located elsewhere and are willing to travel interstate travel most months to visit landowners and sites.
About us
Enhar's mission is to increase the pace of renewable energy and storage deployment in Australia through better development services leading to faster land agreements and development approvals. Out team raises the standard of the solar and smart energy industry through excellence in project development, engineering and quality management.
We've proven ourselves over 16 years business with steady growth and expansion of our reputation and client base. Our team are passionate about deploying clean energy technology to solve the climate crisis. The renewable energy revolution must be both fast and high quality/durable and that is what we are all about. Securing good sites with high integrity land agreements is key.
About you
You are an experienced land acquisition manager who is passionate about develping climat4e on board with accelerating Australia's roll out of renewable generation, with relevant experience in securing land for large rural projects, and have achieved multiple successful land agreements.
Your values align with Enhar's mission.
About the Role
Your Strategic Objectives are:
· Secure land agreements for wind farms >300MW per wind farm in QLD and NSW
Your Success Factors include the following regular activities:
· Regularly meet Enhar clients and provide high quality service
· Regularly meet and engage landowners for land agreements for wind farms
Your Core Competencies are:
* Fast, accurate, focussed
* Able to compellingly engage stakeholders including farming families and family run rural businesses, to get the best outcome for the project and our client.
* Decisive project manager willing to take control of projects and stakeholders to drive outcomes in land acquisition
* Work with our in-house design team to apply site constraints into concept designs which landowners accept
* Take full responsibility for land acquisition outcomes and timeframes and take a strong pride in efficient delivery
* Write concise, effective planning permit applications and handle the administration of planning permits
* Ability to write reports
* Fluent English with correct grammar and spelling
* Competent in software for remote working including Outlook email, Outlook shared calendar, Zoom meetings, Teams meetings, Workflowmax, weekly timesheet recording, cloud file management in Dropbox, ability to use phone for most functions while travelling remotely
Qualifications you Must Have:
· Experience in consultancy companies as well as industry experience in developer companies
· Qualification in either town and country planning or environmental assessment for permits
· Experienced in solar farm and/or BESS and/or wind project planning permits and land acquisition
· Expert understanding of planning permit regulations and approvals process relating to solar and BESS projects in our target regions: NSW, SA, VIC and QLD
· At least 5+ years experience in securing land and permits including rural projects
· Native level English speaking, writing and reading skills
· Client facing skills, charisma, ability to build trust and rapport with diverse landowners including
· Valid Australian driving License
· Australian permanent residency status
· Australian based applicants only, must have over 15 years continuous living in Australia, or at least 10 years if previously lived and worked in country with similar planning and land ownership regime for a further 5+ years
Qualifications we'd like you to have:
· Located in VIC or NSW, however South Australia or QLD located persons will also be considered, you must be able to travel to regional NSW, SA and VIC up to once a month with overnight trips
· Experience in land acquisition negotiation in QLD, NSW
· Hands on experience with agriculture, farming, grazing, ability to understand and get along with rural landowners extremely well
· Good working understanding of physical footprint layout of wind farms, solar farms and BESS projects
About our client services
Current Enhar projects include origination of large scale wind farm, BESS for major international and national developers with large scale pipelines in Australia. Our clients also include local councils, water utilities and universities.
Typical project scales are MW, located in regional QLD and NSW
We have an established team including project managers, land negotiators, a GIS specialist, project engineer draftsman, a 3D graphics designer and a founding director responsible for this department. An outgoing staff member leaves a role vacant ready for the next legend to join our team so we can deliver more volume and keep raising our standards.