Land Third Party Interface Manager

About the role

Land Third Party Interface Manager

Location: Home Based, National (with office hubs in Leeds, Warwick and The Strand, London)

We're at the forefront of the biggest period of change in the electricity network since the 1960s to meet the demands of Net Zero; upgrading infrastructure across the country to connect more clean, affordable energy to the grid – moving it from where it’s generated to where it’s needed by UK homes and businesses. We need to enable new customer focussed connections and coordinate third-party works on our sites at a much larger scale – efficiently and collaboratively in this digital age. 

As a Land Third Party Interface Manager, you'll develop and deliver Lands non-operational third-party policy, procedures and processes. You will work closely with the Customer Connections teams on site to develop, lead and enable a team coordinating and monitoring multiple third-party contractor activity on new substation builds and expansions across the country.  

We're looking for a passionate, creative and curious leader with excellent communication skills, who is people focused, eager to work within a fast-paced environment and has site experience working under construction, design and management regulations.  

In this role you can enjoy our hybrid working from office and home. You'll be flexible to travelling to offices and project sites as required. 

Key accountabilities

• Formulate and deliver a strategy for monitoring activities of third-party works on NGET non-operational land (typically installation of underground cables), including monitoring the volume of activity onsite, performance of third-party contractors, interactions between third-party contractors and NGET work to resolve any issues.
• Manage a portfolio of NGET sites where there are multiple third-party contractors working on NGET sites to mitigate interface risks, ensure compliance and ensure consistency across a national portfolio of sites.  
• Liaison with ET Customer Connections, ET Asset Operations and Operational SHE, engineering, consents, external affairs and lands leads to ensure compliance and consistency with wider business around all SHE related matters.
• Liaison with external parties such as third-party connection customers, DNOs, local planning authorities etc as relevant for the site/project works.
• Facilitate and foster a seamless generative safety culture within the Lands team.

About you

What we do isn’t just important – it’s essential. That’s why we look to recruit experts in their field. In this case, we’re looking for someone who has:

• Considerable experience of working on complex construction sites, with excellent and pragmatic understanding of Construction, Design and Management (CDM) regulations.
• Knowledge of utilities / electrical engineering sector.
• Demonstrable stakeholder management, writing and presenting skills.
• Excellent organisational skills, including excellent facilitation skills.
• Effective and pro-active problem solving and time management skills, with the ability to independently track multiple projects and deadlines.
• The ability to think and work strategically and commercially.
• Qualification or significant experience relating to Construction, Design & Management.
• NEBOSH, IOSH, CITB SMSTS is desirable.
• Full UK Driving Licence and the flexibility to travel as required.

Don’t meet every single requirement? If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t match the job description exactly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be the right person for our growing business in this role or another one.

What you'll get

• A competitive salary between £60,000 - £75,000 – dependent on capability.
• Job requirement car.
• An annual performance bonus of up to 15%.
• 28 days annual leave plus eight statutory days.
• The option to buy additional or sell holiday days.
• A generous contributory pension scheme - we will double-match your contribution to a maximum company contribution of 12%.
• Financial support to help cover the cost of professional membership subscriptions, course fees, books, exam fees and time off for study leave - so long as it's relevant to your role.
• Access to flexible benefits such as a share incentive plan, salary sacrifice car and technology schemes, support via employee assistance lines and matched charity giving to name a few.
• Family care benefits including a back-up care service for when your usual care arrangements fall through (six paid days each year as standard with the option to purchase further days).
• Access to apps that support health, fitness and wellbeing.

About us

National Grid Strategic Infrastructure is a Business Unit created to propel our grid forward to deliver in 5 years, what has been achieved in the previous 30. By 2030 we aim to have 17 new major infrastructure projects live across England, Scotland and Wales. 

Here at National Grid, we connect homes and businesses to power, making sure supply and demand match each other. We make sure the lights are on in schools, operating theatres, and sporting arenas; we’re thousands of people working on behalf of millions of people. 

Our investment in Strategic Infrastructure via The Great Grid Upgrade will mean more home-grown power, greater energy security and a cleaner future. 

Whatever your role, wherever you work with us, you’ll help us hit stretching targets and achieve our far-reaching goal: to secure, clean energy that supports our world far into the future. Here, you will be at the heart of energy.

More information

This role closes on 6 June 2025 at 23:59, however we encourage candidates to submit their application as early as possible and not wait until the published closing date as this can vary. 

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