Senior Land Consultant

WSP in the UK; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity awaits at a leading firm where you can contribute to high-profile infrastructure projects across the UK and Ireland. As a Senior Land Consultant, you'll play a pivotal role in managing land referencing projects, ensuring accuracy and compliance while collaborating with a dynamic team. This role offers a unique chance to shape your career in a supportive environment that values innovation and professional growth. Whether you're engaging with landowners or providing training to junior colleagues, your contributions will be vital to the success of transformative projects that make a real difference in communities. Join a culture that celebrates diverse perspectives and unlock your potential today!

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Professional development opportunities

Support for chartership

Community volunteering initiatives

Qualifications

• Experience in land referencing and acquisition processes.
• Strong communication and organizational skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Manage delivery of land ownership information for infrastructure projects.
• Support project owners by delivering technical project elements.

Skills

Land Referencing

Land Acquisition Processes

Communication Skills

Project Management

Research Skills

Team Collaboration

Education

Degree in Geography

Relevant Technical Experience

Tools

Land Registry Titles

GIS Systems

Job description

What if you could do the kind of work the world needs?

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.

Our Land team are seeking Senior Land Consultants to join our UK team. The location is based in our Birmingham Mailbox offices. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of the largest Land business in the UK and to make a meaningful and lasting contribution to the success of high-profile infrastructure projects across the UK and Ireland. Your focus of this exciting new role and opportunity is to help manage the delivery of detailed, high quality land ownership information and provide land advice to our clients for a pipeline of some of the most exciting infrastructure projects in the UK today.

Our clients develop major rail, energy, highways and water infrastructure for which they need government approval. As a Principal Land Consultant, you will manage the technical delivery of land referencing projects ensuring the validity, accuracy and auditability of information collected. You will work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment, managing a team of Land Consultants to deliver the necessary information required to identify, notify, engage, gain access to lands and subsequently compensate landowners for any impact caused by scheme development.

You will provide support to the project owner by delivering technical elements of projects on time, within budget and to the agreed standards.

There are further opportunities to provide training to our wider Land team, widening your involvement into new sectors and regions, working with our Land & Property and Surveying Services teams and alongside our Digital, Environmental and Planning colleagues to gain a broader understanding of infrastructure development. WSP will support your chartership and membership with professional institutions and facilitate volunteering in local communities.

If you wish to attain professional chartership of the RICS, RGS and APM can pursue this via the WSP Land Academy (subject to the professional body recognising existing qualifications). Under the umbrella of the Land Academy, and as appropriate to the chartership route taken, candidates will choose a mentor, have regular meetings with their mentor, and be able to access training, be this internal training or external events.

A little more about your role…

• Identification of landowners, occupiers and other parties that hold a legal interest in land, through interpretation and research of Land Registry Titles as well as engagement with landowners.
• Contribute to the land services delivery and success of high-profile infrastructure projects within the UK and Ireland business.
• Your work will support our teams in the delivery of land access, landowner engagement, optioneering and statutory processes (CPO, GVD, DCO, and Hybrid Bills).

YOUR TEAM

• Our Birmingham Land Team is currently 30 strong and made up of land consultants, property specialists, and utility and topographical surveyors working across projects throughout the UK and Ireland.
• We work closely with our 250 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.
• We are the largest Land Referencing business in the UK, having delivered high profile projects such as the Hynet, Heathrow, Thames Tideway, HS2 and many more!
• We work locally, making a difference to the Midlands regional projects, but also nationally with other WSP teams, using in-house land information and consultation databases alongside GIS systems, with a focus on innovation and quality.
• We actively support people in achieving professional accreditations and have Chartered Geographers (CGeog), Chartered Town Planners (RTPI) and Chartered Surveyors (MRICS) who can support your career progression.
• We have various clients in the Transport, Energy, Rail and Local Authority Sectors.
• This role will report to a senior member of the Land Team for WSP in Birmingham.
• We are flexible with the role location and can combine this with home working in a hybrid role.

What we will be looking for you to demonstrate…

• Demonstrable experience of Land Referencing and/or land acquisition processes, including researching and identifying landowners/occupiers, land interests and rights.
• Working knowledge of searching Land Registry Titles and Land plans.
• Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team delivering land and engagement solutions in a front facing role for clients.
• A degree in Geography (or a relevant discipline) or relevant technical experience.
• Detailed knowledge and experience of UK statutory consents requirements, such as a hybrid Bill, TWAO, DCO, CPO, and/or Vesting Order as well as an understanding of the land and property industry.
• Excellent communication and organisational skills and ability to liaise at all levels with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience of training, mentoring or transferring technical knowledge to junior colleagues and the ability to undertake technical assurance of other colleagues’ work.
• Drive and enthusiasm to create strong technical work.
• Strong commercial awareness with an understanding of budget, scope, change control and other project management activities.
• Excellent written/verbal communication skills with the ability to comfortably liaise with clients.
• A full drivers’ licence would be advantageous.

Imagine a better future for you and a better future for us all.

Join our close-knit community of talented individuals who share your passion for making a positive impact. Our global team includes more than 69,000 employees, working together to make a difference in communities both close to home and around the world.

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