Agricultural Liaison Officer

There has never been a better time to join United Infrastructure as we build a team to deliver major infrastructure construction projects across the UK supporting the governments Net Zero transition targets.

A subsidiary of United Infrastructure Group, United Infrastructure provide design, construction, commissioning and maintenance services for the UK's critical energy and water infrastructure.

Working in partnership with our clients, which are the UK’s largest network owners and operators, we work on highly complex projects todeliver resilient infrastructure, meeting the needs of local communities as well as national interests.

One of our key strengths lies in our ability to deliver projects nationally, but also ensuring that within each programme of work, we engage with local communities.

We do this through employing people who are representative of the local communities we work in, training and developing them to take pride in the work they do, and to be responsible for delivering leading levels of performance across our projects.

United Infrastructure are recruiting for an Agricultural liaison officer to join our growing Major Projects.
The role will be based at our Site Offices close to Chester and will initially be a 2 year fix term contract.

The agricultural liaison officer position will be working on behalf of the main works contractor, on an EPC contract. (Major Pipeline)

• Attend landowner / farmer meetings as appropriate to carryout pre-entry agreement for the Main Works Contractor.
• Implement & maintain a communications log containing correspondence & requests from landowners
• Deal with complaints and resolution of landowners & client’s complaints and defects.
• Provide landowner and agricultural advice to project staff and project consultants as required.
• Carryout daily site visits to ensure works being carried out are compliant with landowner’s requirements, agreements and in accordance with any relevant legislations.
• Undertake schedule of conditions throughout the relevant landholdings.
• Assist in providing regular update reports and attending scheme progress meetings as required.
• Sound knowledge of agriculture legislation, policy and best practice guidance across a range of areas including agricultural, drainage and soil assessment and management.
• Liaise with Inspection Controller / SPI for Agricultural Inspection activities
• Ensure any design changes resulting from ALO responsibilities are reviewed by the Design Coordinator and approved by the appropriate design authority for the contract before any change to works are authorised

You will have:

• Demonstratable agricultural and rural affairs experience
• Knowledge of soil management and land drainage
• Cross country Pipeline industry experience. Preferably Gas transmission.
• Experience of liaising with farmers and landowners for major construction projects. Ideally in pipeline projects