Assistant Estates Surveyor

Environment Agency; Shrewsbury; Hybrid; GBP 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A public environmental organization seeks an Assistant Estates Surveyor to advise teams on surveying projects and manage a diverse land portfolio. The role supports flexible work arrangements, requires a RICS accredited degree, and includes a competitive salary package. Candidates should possess a valid driving license and strong communication and planning skills.

Benefits

Generous pension scheme

Holiday allowance up to 30 days

Flexible working options

Support for personal and professional development

Qualifications

• Hold a RICS accredited degree with a commitment to complete APC.
• Full and valid driving license is required.
• Must show a strong desire to progress towards qualifying for APC.

Responsibilities

• Advise and assist teams in various surveying projects.
• Manage a diverse land portfolio over 25000ha.
• Respond to incidents and provide business continuity support.

Skills

Communication skills

Networking skills

Time-management

Planning and prioritisation

Education

RICS accredited degree

RICS Associate member (AssocRICS)

Job description

Assistant Estates Surveyor

Salary £34,320 per annum and a generous benefits package

Full time, Part Time, Compressed Hours, permanent vacancy based in Birmingham, Lincoln, Shrewsbury, Peterborough or Worthing.

Closing date: 14 December 2025

The role

If you’re part of the Environment Agency, you’re part of the solution. Working with us means protecting and improving the environment and tackling issues of national importance. We’re based across England, and our responsibilities span industry regulation, flood defences, land contamination, water quality, fisheries and conservation.

Such broad scope of work calls for diverse, multi-skilled teams. Together, we’ll promote sustainable growth, tackle climate change and secure a better future for everyone.

As an Assistant Estates Surveyor (Graduate), you will advise and assist all our teams. You’ll be studying for a professional qualification or recently qualified as an Associate Surveyor and will work alongside our Estates Surveyors and Senior Estates Surveyors as you provide a professional service to our business. The role supports hybrid, part time and flexible working, so we’ll provide you with plenty of support as you build the foundations of your career.

You’ll be involved in a variety of surveying projects, work that will enable you to develop a wide breadth of knowledge and experience. Your focus will be on managing a diverse land portfolio (extending over 25000ha) as well as helping to deliver our national flood risk programme and overseeing various operational projects. You may also be asked to provide assistance to the acquisition and compensation programme for major capital works.

Responding to incidents is an important part of what we do, and with this in mind you’ll have an incident role and should be ready to make yourself available to respond or provide business continuity support. This may attract an additional payment, and full training and alternative working arrangements will be available to support you.

About you

Please read the Additional Information pack for the full essential and desirable criteria required for this role. Below states the qualifications/memberships and experience required:

• Hold one of the following qualifications/memberships:
  • Hold a RICS accredited degree with the ability and commitment to enrol onto and complete your APC in the land and resources pathway.
• We will accept applications from those who are in their final year of a RICS accredited degree and looking to start work in August/September 2024:
  • Or enrolled onto your APC with the commitment to complete in one of the mentioned sector pathways.
  • Qualified as a RICS Associate member (AssocRICS) with the commitment to becoming qualified MRICS.
• Full and valid driving licence.
• A strong desire to progress towards qualifying for your APC.
• A credible and enthusiastic communicator with good networking skills.
• Good planning, prioritisation and time-management skills with the ability to achieve targets and meet deadlines.

About us

The Estates service extends to 160 people, offering professional support for Environment Agency land, property, compensation and valuation matters. We are core to the delivery of the Agency's £5.2 billion capital programme to better protect 336,000 homes. Our experienced teams specialise in negotiating access, dealing with compensation claims from land and property owners where they have suffered loss as a consequence of our work.

We also manage the Agency's landholdings, which extends to 26,000 hectares.

The rewards

As well as the opportunity to make a real difference to the environment, you can look forward to a competitive package with a range of benefits. These include:

• A generous career average salary pension scheme (currently 19% contributions from us).
• Holiday allowance linked to grade and length of service, rising from 25 days to 30 days per year, plus 8 statutory public and bank holidays (pro-rata for part-time employees).
• Generous enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave schemes.
• A range of flexible working options including flexi-time.
• These depend on business needs, but our aim is to help you achieve a positive work-life balance.

We will support your continued personal and professional development too and we’ll put a formal development plan in place for you and help you to identify and address any skills gaps. We are committed to having an inclusive workforce to reflect the communities we serve. We welcome applications from candidates seeking flexible working patterns, including job share. Please highlight any information regarding preferred flexible working arrangements on your application.

For more information

Please note, your work location is flexible, but you will be required to travel to carry out surveying work. This may include overnight stays. A full UK driving licence is essential to travel to sites and offices across our hubs, some of which are inaccessible by public transport. You'll be provided with a vehicle to carry out this work if required.

You’ll need to attend a hub office (Birmingham, Lincoln, Shrewsbury, Peterborough or Worthing) for events like induction, training, team meetings etc. Outside these, you can use hybrid working arrangements and our flexible working policy.

If you have any further enquiries about this role, please email [e-mail].

Interviews are expected to take place via MS Teams during the week commencing 19 January 2026.