Assistant Project Surveyor in Crawley

Assistant Projects Surveyor will report to the Consent Lead SPN and will work within Capital Programme – Major Projects Consents & Stakeholder Engagement based in our Crawley or Maidstone office. You will be a permanent employee. Salary of £48,218 plus a car and a bonus of 3%. This role can also offer blended working after the probationary period of 6 months – 3 days in the office and 2 days remote.

Benefits:

• 22 Days Annual Leave plus bank holidays.
• Reservist Leave – Additional 18 days full pay and 22 days unpaid.
• Personal Pension Plan – Personal contribution rates of 4% or 5% (UK Power Networks will make a corresponding contribution of 8% or 10%).
• Tenancy Loan Deposit Scheme, Season Ticket Loan.
• Tax efficient benefits: Cycle to Work, Home & Tech, and Green Car Leasing Schemes.
• Occupational Health support.
• Switched On – scheme providing discount on hundreds of retailers’ products.
• Discounted gym membership.
• Employee Assistance Programme.

Job Purpose:

To obtain the necessary consents associated with CPP instructions within a defined geographic footprint. The Assistant Projects Surveyor will report directly to the Major Projects Consent Manager and will be responsible for the acquisition of legal acquisition and the disposal of operational property freeholds and leaseholds, easements, statutory consents and wayleaves associated with Alliance and Major Connections projects.

Dimensions:

• No direct reports; supporting colleagues within Major Projects Consents team, project managers, designers and Alliance staff.
• Undertake a 2‑year internal training plan supported by the Consents Lead and Senior Surveyor.
• With guidance, undertake discussions with grantors, land agents, solicitors and consultants concerning the installation, retention, or alteration of UK Power Networks network infrastructure within the Capital programme.
• With guidance, make justifiable decisions after consulting with project managers, consents surveyors and the Consent Manager regarding financial commitments, strategy and legal matters in association with APP and Major Connections projects.
• With guidance, manage instructions to Network's solicitor or external solicitors/partners.

Principle Accountabilities:

• Implement consents strategy with support.
• Report important performance measures.
• Implement processes concerning legal acquisition, land consenting, planning consents and environmental consenting, including but not limited to the acquisition of new freehold or leasehold operational property, deeds of grant, wayleaves, permitted development, planning consent and other environmental and statutory consents.
• Work with UK Power Networks’ legal team, providing general legal and practical advice regarding the consents strategies in the Capital delivery portfolios.
• Maintain important external stakeholder relationships, in particular with major grantors and their agents, planning authorities and statutory undertakers.
• Represent Consents at meetings or workshops.
• Promote and help to develop an outstanding team culture, great working relationships and communications within the team and across the business.
• Ensure own safety by applying appropriate risk assessments and using PPE correctly on all occasions.

Measures of Success:

• To meet all individual coaching requirements and performance targets.
• Deliver all consents‑related projects with support.

Qualifications Required:

• GCSE Maths, English, Science Grade C and above (or equivalent).
• A Levels, Level 4 or 96 UCAS points equivalent or willingness to obtain equivalent.
• High levels of safety awareness and principles.
• Awareness of corporate and business practice.
• Communicate at all levels and have interpersonal awareness and ability to evidence prosocial behaviours.
• Excellent public relations, negotiating and influencing skills.
• Aspirations to be self‑motivated and evidence personal and professional development.

Desirable But Not Essential (training will be provided):

• Utilities consenting (advantageous) and a technical understanding concerning the legal aspects of operational property and wayleaves consents, planning consenting process and environmental consenting.
• Surveying experience or qualification.
• Knowledge of property and utilities consenting issues.
• Working knowledge of agriculture to help negotiations of compensation claims.
• An understanding of valuation principles to land and property.
• Awareness of primary and secondary legislation concerning utilities’ operations; such as statutory instruments affecting electricity transmission and distribution assets.
• Awareness of relationships between stakeholders in the electricity utility businesses – including government, environmental, statutory authorities and business departments and customers.

Health & Safety Responsibilities:

Managers and supervisors carry both legal and company responsibilities for ensuring the health and safety of their employees, those under their control and those who might be affected by the work undertaken, i.e. public, visitors and employees of other organisations. This includes briefing individuals working for them and ensuring there is the necessary understanding, competence and application of requirements to work safely and without harming the environment. Employees will ensure they understand the health and safety risks involved in their work activities and their responsibility to apply the controls needed to manage those risks to acceptable levels. Similarly where work activities can have an adverse impact upon the environment, and where there are legal requirements, employees will understand those impacts and the controls they must ensure are applied.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. Where applicable, this role is subject to safer recruitment processes and robust pre‑employment checks.