Assistant Land Consultant

WSP; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering consultancy in Scotland is looking for an Assistant Land Consultant to support land access and stakeholder engagement for high-profile infrastructure projects. This role involves collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams, conducting research, and liaising with stakeholders to secure land access. Ideal candidates should possess a keen interest in land services, effective communication skills, and a full UK driving licence. The position supports a hybrid working environment between Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Perth offices.

Qualifications

• Keen interest in delivering land services for clients.
• Experience in multi-disciplinary teams for high-quality outputs.
• Ability to liaise with stakeholders at all levels.
• Drive and enthusiasm for technical work.
• General understanding of Scottish land practices.
• Knowledge of UK statutory consent requirements is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Support land access and stakeholder engagement activities.
• Identify landowners and relevant parties through research.
• Liaise with diverse stakeholders including contractors and clients.
• Contribute to high-profile infrastructure projects.
• Ensure accuracy and auditability of land information.
• Provide guidance to junior colleagues.

Skills

Stakeholder engagement

Effective communication

Project management

Technical assurance

Microsoft Office

GIS/mapping tools

Education

Full UK driving licence

Job description

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This role can be based in one of our offices in Edinburgh, Glasgow or Perth with the flexibility of hybrid working between one of these locations and home.

Your new role, what's involved?

• Your work will support our teams in the delivery of land access, landowner & stakeholder engagement, optioneering and statutory processes.
• Identification of landowners, occupiers and other parties that hold an interest in land, through interpretation and research of Registers of Scotland information.
• Liaising with landowners, land agents, legal representatives, planning authorities, stakeholders, contractors and clients.
• Working with multi-disciplinary teams to secure access to land for surveys, whether by agreement or through statutory mechanisms.
• Contribute to WSP Land delivery and success of high-profile infrastructure projects within Scotland and the wider UK and Ireland business.
• You will provide guidance to support junior colleagues and provide the ability to undertake review of other colleagues’ work.
• You will develop commercial awareness with an understanding of budget, scope, change control and other project management activities, including identification of project risks to the project owner.
• The role may involve client-facing activities where you will represent the business as an Assistant Land Consultant level on projects.

Your team

This is an exciting opportunity to become part of WSP’s Land team in the delivery of land referencing, land acquisition, land access, formal consents, statutory orders and landowner engagement.

Our Scotland Region is currently made up of land consultants, property specialists, and utility / topographical surveyors working across our Edinburgh, Glasgow and Perth offices. We work closely with over 200 Land colleagues across the UK and Ireland delivering land services on a variety of projects across the energy, water, road, rail and active-travel sectors. Our clients develop major highway, rail, energy and renewable infrastructure projects all of which impact privately owned land. We are the largest Land Referencing business in the UK, with recent high-profile projects include A9 Dualling, SSEN and various onshore renewables clients.

As part of our Land Team, you will combine office, home and on‑site working deliver components for the delivery of land consenting projects ensuring the validity, accuracy and auditability of information collected. You will work collaboratively in a fast‑paced environment, working with a team of Land Consultants to deliver the necessary information required to identify, notify, engage, and gain access to lands and secure required consents with landowners affected by infrastructure projects.

We work locally, making a difference to Scotland‑based projects but also nationally with other WSP teams, using our in‑house land information and consultation databases alongside GIS systems, with a focus on innovation and quality. Our colleagues are from a diverse range of careers backgrounds including Estate Management, Forestry, Agriculture, Project Management, Liaison Officers, Site Supervision, Land Agency and more. The diverse range of skills all combine to provide a full and comprehensive skillset within the business for our clients.

We would love to hear from you if you have:

• A keen interest in delivering land services for clients (whether land referencing, survey access, stakeholder and landowner engagement or statutory processes). If you have relevant transferable skills and are passionate about the land and consenting industry, we would love to hear from you.
• Experience of working as part of multi‑disciplinary teams to deliver high quality outputs for clients.
• Effective communication and organisational skills with ability to liaise at all levels with internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to undertake technical assurance of other colleagues’ work.
• Drive and enthusiasm to create strong technical work.
• A full UK driving licence is required.
• General IT skills, Microsoft Office suite including Teams, and basic skills with GIS/mapping tools.
• If you have specific skills in the following fields and have ambition to apply and extend your skills within Infrastructure projects as it applies to land and consenting projects.
• Identification of land, ownership, and interests in land.
• General understanding of Scottish land ownership and land management practices.
• Project management skills from infrastructure projects.
• Stakeholder engagement for infrastructure projects.
• Experience and/or knowledge of UK statutory consents requirements, would be an advantage, but not essential. Consents examples include Hybrid Bill, TWAO, DCO, CPO, and/or Vesting Order.
• Experience of W ayleaves and Necessary Wayleave agreements for Energy Projects would be beneficial.

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