Land Access & Stakeholder Liaison Specialist

Electricity Supply Board; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 59,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

Parental leave entitlements

Staff well-being programmes

Job summary

ESB is seeking a Landowner Engagement Specialist to secure land access for surveys, investigations and construction across underground cables and OHL projects. You will coordinate with landowners, valuers, agents and solicitors, maintaining logs and facilitating access for project activities.

The role requires strong negotiation and stakeholder engagement skills, a valid ROI driving licence, and willingness to travel nationwide. Hybrid working model and flexible arrangements apply.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in land acquisition, property, utilities, infrastructure, planning, agriculture, engineering, or stakeholder engagement.
• Experience dealing directly with landowners and external stakeholders.
• Practical understanding of wayleaves, easements, site acquisition or property transactions.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and negotiation skills.
• Ability to organise competing priorities, maintain accurate records, and meet project deadlines.
• Good report-writing skills and confidence providing clear project and risk updates.
• Either a relevant third-level qualification or equivalent relevant work experience.
• A valid driver's licence for ROI, access to a car, and flexibility to travel nationwide.

Responsibilities

• Act as primary point of contact for landowners on assigned underground cable / OHL projects.
• Arrange and conduct landowner meetings, site visits and routine negotiations in support of projects
• Secure / manage access for surveys, site investigations, enabling works, construction activities.
• Support site acquisition, easement, wayleave and other property-related activities.
• Coordinate inputs from valuers, land agents, solicitors and other advisers, ensuring actions are progressed and recorded.
• Maintain accurate engagement logs, correspondence, commitments and access records.
• Support planning, environmental and consenting processes by coordinating access and landowner information.
• Provide clear project reporting, risk updates and forward look-aheads for land access activities, while promoting respectful landowner engagement, safety, compliance and professional conduct.

Skills

Land acquisition

Stakeholder engagement

Negotiation

Project coordination

Report writing

Driver's licence

Education

Relevant third-level qualification

Job description

ESB is seeking a Landowner Engagement Specialist to secure land access for surveys, investigations and construction across underground cables and OHL projects. You will coordinate with landowners, valuers, agents and solicitors, maintaining logs and facilitating access for project activities.

The role requires strong negotiation and stakeholder engagement skills, a valid ROI driving licence, and willingness to travel nationwide. Hybrid working model and flexible arrangements apply.