Senior Land & Estates Surveyor

Iberdrola; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading energy firm in Glasgow seeks a Senior Land and Estates Surveyor to manage land portfolios for renewable projects. This role involves negotiating land rights, collaborating with legal teams, ensuring compliance with agreements, and driving risk management strategies. Ideal candidates should have a degree in a land-related field and be a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. The firm offers competitive benefits and a commitment to sustainability and renewable energy.

Benefits

36 days annual leave

Life Assurance (4x salary)

Healthcare benefits including Dental and Private Medical Insurance

Electric Vehicle Schemes

Cycle to Work scheme

Qualifications

• Experience in estates management and acquisition surveying.
• Understanding of the Renewables market and technologies.
• Driving license is necessary.

Responsibilities

• Lead negotiations for Heads of Terms and land rights documents.
• Ensure legal agreements are compliant and updated.
• Mentor and train members of the Land & Estates team.

Skills

Land rights negotiation

Stakeholder engagement

Risk management

Financial management

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

Overview

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Qualifications

• 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.

Benefits

• 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 are 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.

Mobility

Please note that any applicant who is not a citizen of the country of the vacancy will be subject to compliance with the applicable immigration requirements to legally work in that country. If/when required the Company will support the employee with the necessary Immigration requirements.