Senior Land & Estates Surveyor

ScottishPower; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 53,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading renewable energy company in Glasgow is looking for a Senior Land & Estates Surveyor. You will manage land portfolios for wind, solar, and battery projects, negotiate land rights, and ensure compliance with legal agreements. Candidates should have a degree in a land discipline, be a member of RICS, and have experience in estates management. The role offers hybrid working and great benefits including 36 days of annual leave, life assurance, and health cover.

Benefits

36 days annual leave

Life Assurance (4x salary)

Holiday Purchase

Share Schemes

Technology Vouchers

Electric Vehicle Schemes

Cycle to Work scheme

Healthcare benefit options

Employee discounts

Qualifications

• Experience in estates management and acquisition surveying.
• Understanding of the Renewables market and Technologies.
• Driving licence.

Responsibilities

• Assist the Land & Estates Manager with matters across Onshore Delivery Team.
• Negotiate land rights documents with landowners.
• Collaborate with Legal and Project teams to secure necessary rights.
• Review and create legal agreements for compliance.
• Provide land rights valuations and technical advice.
• Maintain consistency and manage risks across projects.
• Act as a key contact for landowners and project teams.
• Support Estate Management Team with data management.
• Ensure financial obligations are met during transactions.
• Mentor and train members of the Land & Estates team.

Skills

Estates management

Negotiation skills

Project management

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Degree in land related discipline

Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors

Tools

Land Management System (LMS)

SAP RE

Power BI

Job description

PLEASE NOTE THIS ADVERT CLOSES THE DAY BEFORE ANY AUTOMATED DATE SHOWN - PLEASE REFER TO THE CLOSING DATE IN THE BODY OF THE ADVERT

Senior Land & Estates Surveyor - Renewables

Glasgow, G2 5AD

Salary from £57,600 per annum, Up to 15% Bonus & Health Cover

Flexible & Hybrid Working

Closing Date - Wed 21st January

Help us create a better future, quicker

The ScottishPower Renewables (SPR) Senior Land and Estates Surveyor is responsible for managing a portfolio of work in the expanding SPR onshore including wind, wind repower, BESS and solar opportunities.

Services cover the capture of land from inception to completion of the process in line with project requirements, including: HOTs, Acquisitions, Land Referencing, Estates Management & Rentals and Landowner Relationship Management.

What you’ll be doing

• Team Support - assist the Land & Estates Manager and Head of Delivery with all matters across Onshore Delivery Team.
• Land Rights Negotiation - lead and manage negotiations for Heads of Terms and land rights documents with landowners and their representatives. Ensure Hots templates are up to date.
• Collaboration - collaborate with Legal and Project teams to secure necessary rights.
• Legal Agreement Oversight - review, create, and update legal agreements to ensure suitability and compliance.
• Valuation & Specialist Advice - provide land rights valuations and expert input on compulsory purchase, land strategy, and technical rights.
• Consistency & Risk Management - maintain consistency across projects, update templates, and report deviations. Identify and advise on risks, offering solutions where appropriate.
• Land KPIs - act as a key project team member, ensuring land requirements are met on time. Identify shortfalls, mitigation and remedies and pursue to solution as required. Drive Land Strategies for more complex projects.
• JV Oversight - ensure that rights and obligations are fully understood and transferred across between development, construction and operational functions and where appropriate JV partners. Where management responsibility lies with a joint venture partner, ensure that project and business obligations continue to be met, putting in place and managing monitoring and quality assurance procedures.
• Due Diligence - input into and completion of project due diligence exercises in relation to the acquisition of new renewable projects or entry into new joint ventures.
• Estate Management - ensure adherence with lease terms and property rights. Initiate and complete audits of land right adherence (either physically or by document) at appropriate times to ensure compliance with land rights.
• Stakeholder Engagement - act as a senior point of contact for landowners and project teams.
• System Management - support Estate Management Team with inputting into LMS (Land Management System) or SAP RE. Ensure Land data is kept up to date on MS Lists and Power BI. Extract information and provide detail and reports as necessary.
• Financial Obligations - ensure financial obligations are understood and met. Liaise with the Estate Management team for the required payments across all stages of transaction.
• Team Development - mentor, guide, assist and train members of the Land & Estates team as required to allow them to fulfil their duties.

What you’ll bring

• Degree in land related discipline
• Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
• Experience in estates management and acquisition surveying
• Understanding of the Renewables market and Technologies
• Driving licence

What's in it for you

As well as a competitive salary which is reviewed annually, you can also enjoy a number of other benefits. With our pension scheme, we’ll double match your contribution up to a company contribution of 10%.

Benefits include:

• 36 days annual leave
• Life Assurance (4x salary)
• Holiday Purchase – perfect your work/life balance with extra annual leave
• Share Schemes
• Technology Vouchers – save more and spread the cost of your technology purchases
• Electric Vehicle Schemes – to help you transition to green/clean driving
• Cycle to Work scheme and Public Transport Season Ticket Loans
• Healthcare benefit options including: Dental Insurance, Private Medical Insurance, Health Cash Plan and annual Health Assessments
• Plus shopping, leisure, restaurant and gym discounts, and unique employee deals on travel insurance and more

Why ScottishPower

ScottishPower is part of the Iberdrola Group, one of the world's largest integrated utility companies and a world leader in wind energy. With a commitment to generate all of our energy from renewable resources and a drive to create the energy infrastructure of the future, we’re at the forefront of the journey to Net Zero and investing over £6m every working day to make this happen. With diverse opportunities across our businesses and a commitment to invest in our own internal talent, ScottishPower can offer people real career opportunities that meet personal and professional goals, in a global organisation.

Inclusion, diversity and a social purpose are at the heart of everything we do. Together with our values, they bring us together into a stronger, more sustainable business with direct links to the communities we serve. It takes all kinds of people to build a large‑scale business like ours, so whatever your background, you’ll fit right in.

ScottishPower is committed to providing reasonable support or adjustments in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long‑term conditions, mental health conditions, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy‑related support. If you need support, please reach out to [e-mail].