Location:Victoria, Australia

Employment Type: Permanent Full Time

Description:

• Make a real difference and help shape our customers’ Energy Future
• Hybrid working > 2 days WFH > Choose your office days
• Careers with Purpose > Collaborative > Inclusive > Flexible Work Environment

When you choose Aus Net, you’ll join genuine people working together, making Real. Progress
At Aus Net, we’re the link between renewable energy sources and local communities, playing a key role in the clean energy transition and providing essential energy to every Victorian family.

Help us lead the way, while enriching your career with real people who encourage you to bring your best and make real impact – for your career, our communities, and Australia’s cleaner energy future.

Purposeful work with genuinely good people. That’s refreshing.
In this exciting role, you will Manage a team for the successful delivery of best practice processes in relation to developing, implementing and managing land access and acquisition across various Development & Future Networks electricity infrastructure projects throughout Victoria.

Your team and you will focus on building and maintaining positive working relationships, supporting commercial and delivery teams in establishing contact with landowners and effectively negotiating licences, leases, easements and other property documents with varied stakeholders through the application of land tenure, property law and valuation principles.

With a 3/2 Hybrid (Office/WFH) split this role is based in CBD with Ad-Hoc travel to site and is part of the Community Engagement and Land Planning Team.

This role will deliver real outcomes, including but not limited to:

• Establish and grow a team of subject matter experts with skills and experience in valuations and estimates, negotiations, transaction management and conveyancing
• Lead team to secure land and easements and associated agreements to enable timely and efficient delivery of projects
• Demonstrate strong leadership and subject matter expertise in relation to management of a team of land access advisors for the delivery of expert advice time-critical processes, maximising on commercial outcomes of Aus Net and stakeholders/landowners
• Deliver leasing and licensing arrangements in relation to the use of land and network assets and associated payments
• Delivery property-based service and technical expertise, support and leadership across all land access and acquisition activities
• Delivery pre- and post-construction property condition assessments, compensation, and valuation advice to support landholder claims procedure
• Delivery systematic capture of geospatial property information (GIS) relating to the land assets of Aus Net, leveraging GIS tools to create efficiency in valuation and compensation estimates

You don’t need to check every box; however, we are looking for a good combination of:

• Tertiary Degree (Bachelor level) or certificate or relevant experience
• Electricity infrastructure, renewable energy or energy background
• Geographic Information Systems knowledge and use
• Demonstrated experience in property research and knowledge of land tenure systems, including easement, property, valuation, and contract law including land acquisition statutes
• Demonstrated knowledge of Lands Titles Office processes
• Experience in landowner/stakeholder engagement and negotiation of property transactions
• Experience in leading project or specialist function activities
• Relevant experience in critical capital infrastructure projects ($1Bn+)

A real place to belong

We celebrate unique voices, refreshing perspectives and diversity in our team. Engage and connect through our social club, family day, wide range of events or by joining one of our Employee Network Groups.


We believe in more than just competitive pay. Here’s what sets us apart:

• Flexibility: whether this is hybrid work, flexible hours, or part time arrangements, we’ll work with you to help balance work and life.
• Leave: more than typical personal leave and a generous 14 weeks of paid parental leave, with no minimum service.
• Community giving: a paid day to volunteer with our social impact partner, Foodbank, or for a cause that matters to you.
• Perks: we offer all the other perks you’ve come to expect like purchased leave, income protection insurance, novated leasing, corporate discounts, private health cover discounts and more.

As an industry in transformation, we’re excited by the possibilities ahead.
So, if you’re passionate about our purpose and committed to making real progress, bring your energy and join Aus Net. Together, we can shape a new way forward.