Surveyor/Land Agent – Morpeth

Bell Ingram; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Cycle to work scheme

Day off for your birthday

Volunteer leave

Access to 24/7 GP and mental health support

Annual staff conference

Social and sporting events

Job summary

Bell Ingram is seeking a Rural Surveyor/Land Agent to join the Infrastructure and Renewables team at their Morpeth office. This role involves delivering land and property advice, managing multiple projects, and developing strong relationships with clients. Ideal candidates should have experience in rural tenancy management and strong IT skills. The company offers excellent career prospects, CPD opportunities, and a range of employee benefits including a cycle-to-work scheme and volunteer leave.

Qualifications

• Experience in a similar role ideally with MRICS or AssocRICS.
• Experience in rural tenancy management.
• Comfortable with multiple projects and data management.
• Excellent attention to detail and organisational skills.

Responsibilities

• Deliver land and property advice to clients.
• Develop strong relationships with clients and stakeholders.
• Support trainees and develop new business opportunities.
• Maintain good records and ensure audit compliance.

Skills

RICS qualification

Rural tenancy management

Strong IT skills (MS Excel, Word, GIS)

Attention to detail

Organisational skills

Ability to manage multiple projects

Full UK driving licence

Education

MRICS or AssocRICS qualification

Job description

Bell Ingram is looking for a Rural Surveyor/Land Agent to join their Infrastructure and Renewables team to help deliver existing and future projects from our Morpeth office.

The role

The Surveyor will support the team in Morpeth to deliver utility, infrastructure and renewable projects. Key tasks will include:

• Deliver land and property advice and services to and on behalf of clients.
• Deliver a range of tasks and/or schemes, to a high standard. Using initiative and a proactive approach to ensure client deadlines and objectives are met and taking ownership of the quality of work delivered.
• Develop strong working relationships with client personnel, and internal and external stakeholders including contractors, consultants, landowners/occupiers, leading negotiations, managing expectations, and providing feedback to improve the level of service provided.
• Property and asset management – meeting clients to understand how they currently manage their assets and how they would like to manage their assets in the future. Developing long-term improvement strategies, managing capital and operational budgets and investment programmes.
• Responsible for maintaining/improving client relationships by upholding quality standards.
• Supporting trainees within the department / office.
• Developing new business opportunities across the north-east of England.
• Be commercially aware, maintain good records, comprehensive files and records to provide regular client updates, and ensure audit compliance with Company ISO procedures.
• You will be supporting the delivery of a diverse and exciting portfolio of projects. Applicants should be comfortable managing multiple projects at different stages of development and excel at keeping projects moving forward efficiently on schedule and within budget.

Qualifications and Skills

• Ideally will have a MRICS or AssocRICS qualification although we would consider an individual with good experience that is willing to work towards these qualifications.
• Demonstrate experience in a similar role.
• Experience in rural tenancy management, including Farm Business Tenancies, Licences to Occupy and Agricultural Holdings Act Tenancies
• Great IT skills with good working knowledge of MS Excel, Word packages and GIS platforms (MS projects desirable, but not essential).
• Ability to manage multiple projects and a large amount of both quantitative and qualitative data.
• Be comfortable meeting people on-site and virtually –colleagues, clients, and other stakeholders.
• Have excellent attention to detail and organisational skills.
• Have a full UK driving licence and willingness to travel to site and project locations.
• Be a team player and have a can-do attitude.

What we can offer

You’ll be adding talent and imagination to a business with the ambition to help deliver diverse and challenging projects from our Morpeth office. This is an opportunity to development your own portfolio of clients whilst complementing Bell Ingram’s existing utility and private clients.

Bell Ingram offers excellent career prospects, training, holiday package and salary commensurate with your skills. In addition to flexible working being part of this role we can also offer:

• Cycle to work scheme
• Day off for your birthday
• Volunteer leave
• Access to 24/7 GP and mental health support
• Annual staff conference
• Social and sporting events.

As a huge advocate for career development. we’ll provide all the support and training required through CPD opportunities to help you maintain your professional competences & qualification. We’ll encourage you to try new roles and experience new settings across the firm.

Professional development to include;

• Internal and external CPD events
• Support to achieve RICS qualification if not already qualified
• Working towards registered RICS Valuer registration
• Working towards CAAV membership
• Commercial and professional skills training

Location

Morpeth – Situated within the purpose-built office complex of UK Coal’s former Ellington Colliery, Bell Ingram’s Morpeth office team specialises in utility infrastructure projects, rural and residential Estate Management and Valuation work.

Our Clients include a number of the Statutory Undertakers and a number of private Clients.

Bell Ingram is committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion among our workforce, and eliminating unlawful discrimination. We operate an anonymised shortlisting process to promote fair, diverse and inclusive recruitment. We are proud to be a Carer Positive organisation.