Transmission Land Graduate Programme

Duration: 2 years commencing September 2026

Location: Aberdeen or Perth

Salary: Circa £34,000 per annum + a range of other benefits to support your family, finances, and wellbeing.

Degree Disciplines: Rural Land Management, Rural Business Management, Land Economy or Agri-Business Management

About The Role

As a Land graduate joining SSEN Transmission, you will follow a specialist pathway. Specialists will work with experts in their specialism, gaining exposure within a business area for the duration of their graduate programme with the aim of providing experience that will lead to a substantive post.

Working as part of our multi-disciplined Land team, we have the opportunity for a recent or upcoming graduate to join our graduate programme and gain the knowledge and experience needed to work towards an Assistant Land Manager.

Within our Land team, you will support Land Managers in securing, maintaining, and managing robust land and property rights for projects across SSEN Transmission’s network area by successfully applying and implementing Land Assembly Strategy in order to deliver project programmes for Large Capital Projects across Base Capex, Customer Connections and Strategic Wider Works portfolios as well as managing risk to future Network security.

Stakeholder engagement is an important element of this role, and you will have an opportunity to learn from a wide array of stakeholders, both internal and external. You will develop and maintain positive working relationships with stakeholders in relation to policy over land and property rights, access and management of land, securing and maintaining rights in land and dealing with matters of valuation and compensation.

The main stakeholder groups include SSEN Transmission project team members, landowners, tenants, their agents and relevant bodies such as local authorities, the Scottish Government Energy Consents Unit, Forestry and Land Scotland, and local planning authorities.

You will be supported in your role with a placement plan, regular meetings with your line manager and networking with key business leaders through quarterly placement reviews. You will have the opportunity to enter into the RICS APC and CAAV training programmes, with dedicated support from other RICS and CAAV members within the SSE business.

What do I need?

You’ll have a minimum of a 2:2 bachelor’s degree in Rural Land Management, Rural Business Management, Land Economy or Agri-Business Management. This should be an RICS accredited degree in order to progress the RICS APC and/or gain professional membership into the Central Association of Agricultural Valuers.

We’d love you to have some practical work experience that reflects your passion for the energy sector, as well as demonstrable experience of working in a team. You’ll also be comfortable working to and setting stretching individual targets and using your own initiative to overcome challenges and should have a genuine interest in SSEN Transmission and the prospect of a long-term future with us.

We want you to feel confident about what happens next in our recruitment process, which has three stages: Online Testing, Video Interview, and an In-Person Assessment Centre.

Recruitment process

If your application meets the minimum criteria, we’ll invite you to complete an online test. If you’re successful, we’ll be in touch by Monday 10 November 2025 with an invitation to complete an online video interview. Our Hiring Managers will carefully review all video interviews, and if you make it through, we’ll contact you by Wednesday 10 December 2025 with an invite to attend our Assessment Day expected to take place January/February 2026. We’ll need you to confirm your attendance by Sunday 4 January 2026.

We’ll keep you updated at every stage, and if you need any support, whether it’s technical help or adjustments to the process, please get in touch.

About Our Business

SSEN Transmission owns and operates the electricity transmission network in the north of Scotland, transporting energy from where it is generated to where it is needed, providing a safe and reliable supply of electricity to the communities it serves. Home to some of the UK’s greatest resources of renewable energy, SSEN Transmission is playing a critical role in the transition to a low carbon future, developing, building, maintaining and operating a network for net zero.

What’s in it for you?

An excellent package with 34 days holiday entitlement, discounted healthcare and much more. View our full benefits package on our careers site.

As an equal opportunity employer we encourage diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We actively encourage applicants from all protected characteristics and commit to providing any reasonable adjustments required during the application, assessment and upon joining SSE.

Next Steps

All applications should be submitted online. The closing date is Sunday, 2nd November, 2025.

If you would like to discuss any working differently requirements or adjustments you may require throughout the recruitment and selection process, please contact graduates@sse.com. If you would prefer a call to discuss adjustments let us know by email and we can arrange a call with you at a time that suits you.

Before commencing employment with SSE, you'll be required to fully complete our pre-employment screening process consisting of a basic criminal records and credit check.

SSE welcomes applications from all nationalities. Please note that any successful candidate must be able to evidence a valid right to work prior to commencement of employment. If sponsorship is required, we may be able to provide support. Sponsoring international candidates is a complex process involving numerous procedures which must be followed precisely to comply with immigration legislation. We look at requests on a case-by-case basis. Please note the overall decision on visa applications sit with UKVI and not SSE.