Land Agent/Rural Surveyor in Northumberland

Location: Morpeth

Bell Ingram is looking for a Land Agent/Rural Surveyor to join their Infrastructure and Renewables team to help deliver existing and future projects from our Morpeth office. Bell Ingram is one of the UK’s largest independent firms of rural business specialists. We work with many national and international companies managing rural, commercial and residential property portfolios and facilities. We ensure all our clients receive the very best advice and levels of service to maximise their assets.

Our utilities, infrastructure, and land management work across the North of England includes delivering infrastructure and renewable energy projects for a wide range of clients, as well as implementing our clients’ land management strategies. Our team of professionals has built a strong reputation in the industry, and we continue to attract talented individuals who want to be part of a dynamic team supporting our growing and evolving business.

The role involves supporting 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 develop 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:

• 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
• Postgraduate conversion courses if required.

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.

To apply for this position, please email your CV and covering letter, to our HR Manager – kirsty.watson@bellingram.co.uk.