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About the Role
This role is central to delivering land access across Origin's portfolio of renewable and cleaner energy projects. You'll lead engagement with landowners from early conversations through to negotiated agreements, helping unlock access to land for development and construction activities.
Working across wind, solar andor firming projects, you'll manage the full lifecycle of land access - from understanding landholder sentiment and operational impacts, through to negotiating agreements and supporting their execution.
You'll work closely with internal project teams and external legal partners, bringing a strong commercial lens to agreements while maintaining a focus on building respectful, long-term relationships with landholders.
Key responsibilities include:
Leading landowner engagement, from early-stage discussions through to agreement execution
Negotiating land access and property-related agreements (e.g. leases, easements, options), including development of detailed negotiation strategies and delivery plans.
Understanding landholder operations and managing project impacts and expectations
Providing input on risks, terms and commercial considerations for land access
Supporting existing land agreements and ongoing land and Origin owned property management matters
This role sits within Origin's Government, Community and Approvals environment, supporting the Development and Construction team with delivery of renewable and cleaner energy projects across Australia and can be based at either our Sydney or Brisbane offices.
About You
You bring a strong balance of relationship management and commercial thinking, with the ability to navigate complex conversations and reach practical outcomes.
You're comfortable working in evolving project environments and enjoy being out engaging with stakeholders, not just behind a desk.
You'll bring:
Experience negotiatng agreements, ideally related to land, property or infrastructure
Strong stakeholder engagement skills, particularly in building trust with landowners
Commercial acumen and the ability to assess risk, value and long term implications
Confidence leading negotiations and facilitating discussions with multiple parties
Understanding of rural or agricultural environments (highly regarded)
Origin - Where good change happens
At Origin, we’re powered by people who believe in creating change.
We are committed to fostering a diverse, gender equitable workforce, where everyone is welcome, and all applications are evaluated on merit and potential. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, people living with disabilities, culturally diverse people, any stage in life, people with intersex variations and people within LGBTQ+ communities, including trans and gender diverse.
Enjoy a challenging career in an exciting industry where you can grow and explore your potential. If you think you have transferable skills, an appetite to learn and would be a great fit, we’d love to hear from you.
Here's a little about us: https://www.originenergy.com.au/about/careers/
Background checks may be required to determine your suitability for this position as part of the recruitment process and during your employment. These checks may include police checks, AusCheck, medical assessment and/or drug and alcohol testing.
Please note unsolicited CVs from agencies will not be accepted.
Origin recognises Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples as the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia, and we pay our respects to Elders past, present and future.
Origin is one of Australia's leading energy companies, exploring, generating and delivering energy to over 4 million customer accounts. Our purpose – getting energy right for our customers, communities and planet – drives everything we do.
As Australia's largest energy retailer, we have an important role to play in providing electricity, natural gas, solar and LPG to Australian communities and work every day to make energy more affordable, more sustainable, smarter and easier for our customers.
We are committed to leading the transition to a cleaner energy future and believe our company, and the energy industry more broadly, should be at the forefront of action to reduce carbon emissions. Origin was the first Australian company to set an emissions reduction target endorsed by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) – aiming to halve our Scope 1 and Scope 2 carbon emissions by 2032, as we work towards achieving net zero emissions by 2050.
Through the Origin Energy Foundation, we support programs that use education to help break the cycle of disadvantage and empower young Australians to reach their potential, contributing more than $27 million to support community organisations since 2010.
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