CityFibre
Wayleave Technical Specialist
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Job Description
This hybrid role offers a great balance of home and office working. You’ll join your colleagues in your local office at least two days a week.
As the UK’s largest independent full fibre network and wholesale platform of choice, we’re busy setting new standards for what digital infrastructure can and should be.
Our network is greener, more reliable and designed for the future. The products we run over it lead the way on speed, value and service - helping businesses to innovate, communities to thrive, and people to live more connected digital lives.
At CityFibre, you’ll be part of something bigger, helping to build a better-connected Britain, together.
Joining us as a Wayleave Technical Specialist
You'll lead the technical excellence of wayleave acquisition, ensuring land access is secured safely, compliantly and efficiently to support the successful delivery of our fibre network. Acting as a senior escalation point for complex wayleave challenges, you'll work across build, design, legal and commercial teams to remove delivery blockers, improve capability and drive best practice across the wayleave function.
You’ll receive a competitive salary and a performance related bonus.
This is some of what you can expect to be doing:
- Lead the technical delivery of wayleave acquisition, ensuring agreements are secured to a high standard and aligned to build programmes and customer commitments
- Act as the senior escalation point for complex, contentious and high-priority wayleave cases, resolving land access challenges and removing delivery blockers
- Provide expert guidance on wayleave, land rights, legal frameworks and access requirements to support successful network delivery
- Build strong relationships with landowners, local authorities, delivery partners and other key stakeholders to facilitate access and mitigate risks
- Work collaboratively across build, design, legal, commercial and programme teams to support efficient project delivery
- Drive continuous improvement, embedding best practice, governance and technical excellence across the wayleave function
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What you’ll bring to the role
You'll have significant experience in wayleave acquisition, with the ability to resolve complex land access challenges and support the successful delivery of network infrastructure projects. You'll also have:
- Significant experience managing complex or disputed wayleave cases from inception through to resolution
- Strong knowledge of the Electronic Communications Code (ECC) and the practical application of land access legislation within a live delivery environment
- Excellent negotiation skills, with a track record of securing agreements with landowners, tenants and third parties
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships and influence positive outcomes
- Commercial awareness, with the ability to balance risk, compliance, delivery timescales and business objectives
- Understanding of telecommunications infrastructure, fibre network delivery or similar utility-based environments
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Life at CityFibre
Everyone deserves to feel heard, valued and truly included. Working alongside our Employee Communities, we’re committed to creating a workplace where people feel a genuine sense of belonging and pride in what they do. That’s why we’re proud to be a Times Top 50 Employer for Gender Equality, endorsed by WORK180, a Disability Confident Leader, a Care Leaver Friendly Employer, and a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award.
We’ll support you to thrive inside and outside of work, with opportunities to grow your career and a flexible benefits package that adapts to your life – including generous annual leave (with an extra day off on your birthday), private medical insurance, health cash plans and family-friendly policies.
Find out more about our culture, communities and benefits on our careers site.
Additional Information
We want to create a sense of belonging for everyone. We celebrate our differences and work to ensure everyone has the best chance to succeed, starting with our recruitment process. No matter your background, family or carer status, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, gender, or gender identity, we welcome your application. If you need any support or reasonable adjustments throughout the application process, please email us at [email protected]. We want to help!
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