Internal Opportunity - Open to Current Ventia Employees Only
Looking for your next challenge within Ventia?
This is an exciting opportunity to step into a highly visible role where you'll build strong relationships, work across multiple teams, and contribute to the delivery of critical electricity infrastructure throughout New Zealand. If you enjoy working with people, solving problems, and making a positive impact for our customers and communities, we'd love to hear from you.
What's in it for you?
- Further develop your stakeholder engagement and relationship management skills.
- Work autonomously while collaborating with operational teams across the business.
- Enjoy a varied role that combines field-based work, stakeholder meetings, and office-based coordination.
- Play a key role in supporting the safe and efficient delivery of transmission line maintenance and projects.
- Build valuable networks across Ventia and the wider industry.
About the Role
As a Landowner Liaison Officer, you will be the key connection between our operational teams and external stakeholders. You'll establish and maintain trusted relationships with landowners, coordinate property access requirements, and help manage issues associated with maintenance, vegetation management, and project activities.
This role requires a proactive and solutions-focused approach, ensuring stakeholder commitments are understood, documented, and delivered while balancing operational requirements with landowner expectations.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and maintain positive working relationships with landowners, occupiers, community stakeholders, and regulatory authorities.
- Coordinate property access requirements for maintenance and project activities.
- Conduct stakeholder meetings and site visits across your assigned region.
- Manage and respond to concerns relating to stock, crops, forestry, biosecurity, environmental impacts, and access arrangements.
- Negotiate practical outcomes that achieve positive results for both stakeholders and Ventia.
- Maintain accurate records of stakeholder interactions, commitments, actions, and enquiries.
- Support compliance with contractual, health and safety, environmental, and regulatory requirements.
About You
You are a confident communicator who enjoys building relationships and working collaboratively with a wide range of people. You can navigate complex conversations professionally and are comfortable balancing competing priorities while maintaining a customer-focused approach.
Ideally, you'll bring:
- Experience in stakeholder engagement, customer service, community relations, landowner liaison, or similar relationship-focused roles.
- Strong negotiation, influencing, and conflict resolution skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication abilities.
- Strong organisational skills and attention to detail.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications.
- A full New Zealand Driver Licence.
- Knowledge of, or experience within, the electricity, utilities, infrastructure, or transmission line sectors would be advantageous.
Interested?
If you're looking to grow your career with Ventia and take on a rewarding role that combines stakeholder engagement, operational support, and community relationships, we encourage you to apply.
Applications close Thursday, 30 October at 5:00pm.
About Ventia
As a leading services provider, we maintain, operate, and manage the essential infrastructure that makes modern life possible across Australia and New Zealand. With more than 35,000 employees and subcontractors across 400 sites, joining Ventia means becoming part of a team that values its people, supports career growth, and helps everyone go further towards their full potential.
Our commitment to Fairness, Inclusion and Respect shapes how we lead, collaborate, hire and support one another. We welcome applications from people of all ages, abilities and backgrounds, including Māori and Pasifika peoples and people of all genders, identities, sexual orientations, beliefs and caring responsibilities. We are dedicated to providing an accessible recruitment process and encourage you to request adjustments at any stage.
How to apply
Click the Apply Now button to start the journey to find your further with Ventia.
Position Reference Number:169249
