Land Consultant

WSP in the UK & Ireland; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Training and Development Programs

Flexible Hybrid Working

Support for Chartership

Job summary

WSP in the UK & Ireland is looking for a Land Consultant in Leeds. You will support land referencing and stakeholder engagement for major infrastructure projects. This position offers a flexible hybrid working model, allowing you to work both from home and in the office.

You will work within a highly skilled team, contributing to land acquisition and project management, while also benefiting from WSP's commitment to your ongoing training and development through their Land Academy.

Qualifications

• Interest in delivering land services like land referencing and stakeholder engagement.
• Experience with multi-disciplinary teams to deliver outputs.
• Effective communication skills with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Support land referencing delivery and stakeholder engagement.
• Identify landowners and other parties through research.
• Liaise with legal representatives and planning authorities.

Skills

Land Referencing

Stakeholder Engagement

Project Management

Communication Skills

GIS/Mapping Tools

Effective Organization

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Job description

At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.

WSP’s Land team is seeking talented Land professionals to join what is already the largest and most successful team in our industry. This is an exciting opportunity to develop or begin a career with a team that enjoys a successful reputation for the successful delivery of major strategic infrastructure projects across the UK and Ireland through the support provided by land referencing, urban and rural landowner engagement, consultation management, land access, formal consents, statutory orders, compensation agreements and land acquisition. Apply and come and discuss the contributions you can make in the delivery of the widest portfolio of projects across all sectors in the UK and Ireland.

The Role

We are the largest and most successful Land business supporting infrastructure development in the UK and Ireland, with 300+ specialist professional colleagues consisting of land consultants, property specialists, project managers and utility and topographical surveyors. We have the widest portfolio of projects available in our industry, offering unrivalled opportunities to both develop and diversify careers, working on some of the most exciting and challenging projects across the whole of the UK and Ireland.

Alongside our land referencing capabilities, our team of surveyors secures powers and/or negotiates land acquisition and land access to support infrastructure development. We provide clients with Property Cost Estimates, agree Heads of Terms and compensations, manage disposals, payments and client accounts, and offer the full range of property-related services to assist our clients in the planning, securing and exercise of powers to construction, operation and maintenance of their infrastructure assets.

Land Consultant

• Your work will support our teams in the delivery of land referencing, 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 the appropriate land registry 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 locally and the wider UK and Ireland business
• You will provide training and mentoring to junior colleagues and the ability to undertake technical assurance of other colleagues’ work and contribute to and participate in our CPD-accredited Land Academy
• You will have commercial awareness with an understanding of budget, scope, change control and other project management activities, including identification of project and data security risks
• The role will involve client-facing activities where you will represent the business at Land Consultant level on projects
• UK and Ireland travel plus the possibility of travel to WSP’s Global Capability Centre (GCC) in India

What we will be looking for you to demonstrate

• A keen interest in delivering land services for clients (including land referencing, survey access, stakeholder and landowner engagement or statutory processes). You may have relevant transferable skills and will be passionate about the land and consenting industry
• Experience of working as part of multi-disciplinary teams to deliver high quality outputs for clients
• Effective communication and organizational skills with ability to liaise at all levels with internal and external stakeholders
• Ability to delegate and undertake technical assurance of other colleagues’ work
• Drive and enthusiasm to create strong technical work
• The ability to travel effectively to various sites/locations is a necessary function of this role
• General IT skills, Microsoft Office suite including Teams, and basic skills with GIS/mapping tools
• Specific skills in the following fields and ambition to apply and extend your skills within infrastructure projects as it applies to land and consenting: Identification of land, ownership, and interests in land; strong understanding of land ownership and land management practices; project management skills in 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 Bills, TWAs, DCOs, CPOs, and/or Vesting Orders; Experience of wayleave agreements would be beneficial

Your development

We appreciate that development and training is important to you and that is why we have a supportive environment that invests in your development, whether that’s chartership, training or mentoring. WSP’s Land Academy is designed and delivered by our expert Land team for our Land team, with a focus on providing the best standard training and CPD across the industry and support and guidance to achieve your chartership. With a network of experts available to guide, we support your management and ownership of your own projects, client advisory, line management, presentation, training and leadership skills.

Variety of work

With a broad selection of projects, we don’t pigeonhole you into a particular project or role. The Land Academy enables you to broaden your capability into GIS, Data Management, Valuations, Negotiations, Referencing and Access and Project Management to be a more rounded and valuable consultant. Project experience rotates, on average, around every 18 months. Day to day activities vary from site activities, landowner engagement, access negotiations, client meetings, project management, report writing, data management, digital innovation scoping and map production.

The role is based in our Leeds or Newcastle offices, with the flexibility of hybrid working between one of these locations and from home. The Candidate will ideally be located within North Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, East Riding of Yorkshire, County Durham, Teesside, Tyne and Wear or North Lincolnshire.