Estates Officer

Wales & West Utilities Limited; Newport; Hybrid; GBP 36,000 - 41,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working opportunities

25 days annual leave + bank holidays

Pension with Aviva

Job summary

Wales & West Utilities Limited in Newport is seeking an Estates Officer to support land and property matters, focusing on landowner liaison for transmission and distribution pipelines and collaboration with the Asset Integrity Department.

You will assist with easements, land acquisitions, access to gas apparatus, and compensation negotiations, while delivering a robust Landowner Liaison Process and maintaining excellent stakeholder relationships.

Qualifications

• A degree in real estate, property, or land-related field is advantageous.
• Experience aimed at AssocRICS/CAAV is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Support landowner liaison process for transmission pipelines.
• Liaise with Estates and Asset Integrity Teams for landowner requests.
• Collaborate with Asset Integrity to deliver the Landowner Liaison Process.
• Assist in gaining access to private land for maintenance on gas apparatus.

Skills

IT skills

GIS knowledge

Workload management

Easements understanding

Communication skills

Education

Degree in real estate/land

AssocRICS/CAAV desirable

Tools

ESRI GIS

Job description

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Who are we?

We are a gas distribution business that services the gas infrastructure across Wales and the south-west of England. We serve our customers and communities with safe, reliable, and affordable energy services whilst investing to create a sustainable future to deliver our carbon‑free vision for 2050.

What we’re looking for:

We are looking for an Estates Officer to provide support dealing with a range of land and property related matters.

The role will predominantly focus on proactive landowner liaison activities for transmission pipelines, as required by IGEM/TD/1, and for distribution pipelines, as required by IGEM/TD/3, in order to mitigate the risk of future encroachments, infringements and build‑overs of gas infrastructure. This role will work closely with WWU’s Asset Integrity Department to deliver a robust and effective Landowner Liaison Process.

In addition, the role will also provide general support to the Estates Team in relation to the agreement of easements and land acquisitions, provide advice and support in response to general land, property and easement related enquiries, deal with requests for access to gas apparatus and assist in the agreement of compensation for damage incurred as a result of work undertaken by WWU on private land.

You’ll be relied on to:

• Support the Landowner Liaison Process for transmission and distribution pipelines.
• Act as a liaison for the Estates and Asset Integrity Teams for landowner requests and general queries.
• Work closely with the Asset Integrity Team to deliver the Landowner Liaison Process.
• Assist in gaining access to private land for maintenance activities on existing gas apparatus

You can read a full job description here .

You’ll need to have:

• A high level of competence in IT skills and record keeping.
• Experience with mapping systems such as ESRI GIS desirable.
• Ability to manage a varied and demanding workload responding to a high volume of incoming enquiries from internal and external sources.
• An understanding of the legal principles applicable to easements and land rights.
• Ability to manage with minimal supervision a varied workload to demanding timescales.
• Good communication skills to ensure effective passage of instructions and advice between operational personnel and external service providers

The following is also desirable:

• A degree in real estate/property/land or similar subject would be an advantage.
• Experience in a similar role, with a desire to work towards a suitable qualification (AssocRICS/CAAV) would be an advantage.

What you’ll get in return:

• A competitive salary starting at £35,940 rising to £41,073
• Flexible working opportunities
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays which can be tailored to celebrations that reflect your beliefs
• Retirement Savings Plan (pension) with Aviva: 5% employee contribution, with WWU doubling your contribution at 10% - totalling 15%
• 14 x salary Life Insurance linked to membership of the Retirement Savings Plan
• "Choices" flexible benefit scheme options including corporate gym memberships, dental insurance, and health cash-plans
• Access to our Financial Wellbeing Programme - allowing you to manage your benefits flexibly to suit your financial needs
• Enhanced pay for parental leave
• Retail discounts and cashback scheme
• Friends & Family Discount for Three Mobile and Broadband
• Colleague recognition including Annual Celebrating Excellence Awards
• Living Wage Accredited Employer
• Award winning employer for 'Outstanding Contribution to Workplace Health and Wellbeing' and leading the industry in championing equality, diversity and inclusion
• Annual salary review
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Company Sick Pay
• In-house Occupational Health Team
• Employee Assistance Programme

The way we do things

Our Ambition, Priorities and Values inform everything we do as a business – from our strategic planning to the performance management of our colleagues. Our values underpin everything we do and we are committed to creating a working environment that supports and fosters diversity, inclusion and equity, where all of our colleagues feel valued and supported to contribute to their full potential.

We are focused on creating a culture where it doesn’t matter about gender, race, sexuality or disability; it’s about our colleagues’ skills, the way we do things and how we live our values.