Description:
This role will support the Specialist – Land, Planning and Environment to manage the delivery of land access and easement/land acquisition for the Western Renewables Link (WRL) Project to be undertaken by AEMO’s delivery partner.
The WRL is a proposed 190 km overhead 500 kV high-voltage transmission line between Bulgana, in western Victoria, and Sydenham in Melbourne’s north-west. The project is critical infrastructure required to unlock the renewable potential of western Victoria as a key renewable energy zone and will help to deliver clean and affordable energy to all Victorians.
What You Will Be Doing
- Work closely with AEMO's delivery partner to develop and refine land access and easement acquisition plans and strategies to ensure the success of the WRL project.
- Evaluate proposed land access and acquisition activities against project delivery plans to ensure interdependent activities are understood and schedule risks are identified and communicated to the project team.
- Provide governance over land access activities undertaken by AEMO's delivery partner to ensure that access to land is undertaken in-line with industry best-practice.
- Provide oversight of easement acquisition negotiations to be undertaken by AEMO's delivery partner to ensure that interests in land are obtained within a timely manner.
- Ensure all risks associated with land access and easement acquisition are promptly identified and effectively communicated to the project team.
- Work with and coordinate activities with other WRL streams (Design, Planning and Environment and Stakeholder) to meet quality, cost and time requirements.
- Assist in evaluating the project and provide feedback to key stakeholders on benefits achieved and opportunities for improvement as part of driving continuous improvement across the business.
- Support the facilitation of multi-organisational working groups to ensure inputs from other relevant organisations and streams within AEMO are reflected within land access and acquisition plans.