Senior Surveyor - New Infrastructure

About the role

Location: Home Based, National (With office hubs in Leeds, Warwick and The Strand, London)

Great Britain's electricity infrastructure is undergoing an ambitious, exciting and vital transformation. Together with industry, we are creating a cleaner, greener system, one that protects the planet and serves generations to come.

We are at the forefront of the biggest period of change in the electricity network since the 1960s to meet the demands of Net Zero; upgrading infrastructure across the country to connect more clean, affordable energy to the grid - moving it from where it's generated to where it's needed by UK homes and businesses.

There's never been a better time to work in energy. It's a time of opportunity and transformation! As a result of this, we're seeing unprecedented growth in our network and are looking to grow our Land Teams.

We're looking for Senior Surveyors to lead on the development and delivery of new infrastructure projects within our Land Teams. Our infrastructure projects across England and Wales are helping to connect more renewable energy to homes and businesses.

You'll be part of a diverse land team providing expert land rights and acquisitions services required for new electrical assets for National Grid. This will be in accordance with current legislation and guidance, best practice and procedure, to ensure National Grid adheres to its licence obligations.

We need people with the skills and enthusiasm to help deliver for our customers today and build an energy network that's fit for the future. In return we can offer you the chance to make a real impact at work.

In this role you can enjoy our hybrid working from office and home. You'll be flexible to travelling to offices and project sites as required. There are National Grid offices across England & Wales. We are open to full time and part time applicants, as well as flexible working arrangements.

Key accountabilities

• Successfully lead, manage, develop & deliver land rights and acquisitions for our infrastructure projects from development to construction, including access to land, securing land rights, and the negotiation of compensation settlements.
• Lead on & implement National Grid Lands Rights Strategy (and other supporting policies and procedures) in a transparent, credible, consistent and economic way.
• Report on programme, key milestone delivery, risk, contract and financial management on a regular basis. This includes being able to identify and distil complex land issues in a succinct and clear way to key stakeholders.
• Evidence of developing & delivering projects requiring a DCO or CPO.
• Communicate and manage internal and external stakeholder, landowner and customer requirements providing excellent written and verbal communication with the ability to articulate complex, technical and nuanced ideas concisely and effectively to a range of audiences.
• Use your strong grasp of DCO/CPO processes to champion and raise the profile of the land team across the projects and navigating complex lands challenges.
• Demonstrate strong financial acumen and advanced negotiation skills including creative problem solving, and the ability to secure favourable outcomes when managing contractors and suppliers.
• Support the Land Project Managers in the successful procurement and management of external resource to deliver required lands activities.
• Share lessons learnt and best practice across the wider land team to drive consistency across the portfolio and deliver continuous improvement.
• Support and mentor junior colleagues, provide coaching and assistance as necessary to deliver land rights efficiently and effectively.

About you

What we do isn't just important - it's essential. That's why we look to recruit experts in their field. In this case, we're looking for someone who has:

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to ensure effective engagement with all relevant stakeholders (internally and externally), including experience of leading/chairing project meetings.
• Ability to effectively manage (often competing) internal/external stakeholder, landowner and customer requirements.
• Experience of delivering start to finish complex, high value land activities for utility projects including access to land, securing land rights, and the negotiation of compensation settlements.
• Experience of working within multidisciplinary teams (engineering, legal, consenting) to support overall project delivery.
• Substantial experience in project, programme, risk, contract and financial management, including accurate and timely customer reporting.
• Ability to manage projects to deliver required outputs on time and within budget.
• Understanding and knowledge of the legal and regulatory parameters that National Grid work within, including the range of statutory powers available.
• A willingness to train to develop expert witness expertise.
• Significant experience of the consenting regimes and processes relevant to complex linear projects. This includes the Planning Act (2008) Development Consent Order and Compulsory Purchase Order processes and practice including the compensation code.
• Desirable - degree qualified (or equivalent) in a related discipline and/or working towards AssocRICS or MRICS.

Don't meet every single requirement? If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't match the job description exactly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be the right person for our growing business in this role or another one.

What you'll get

• A competitive salary between £52,000 - £67,000 - dependent on capability.
• Market supplement of £3,000 per annum.
• Job requirement car.
• An annual performance bonus.
• 26 days annual leave (plus bank holidays).
• The option to buy additional or sell holiday days.
• Generous contributory pension scheme - we will double-match your contribution to a maximum company contribution of 12%.
• A comprehensive internal training programme along with support for relevant external courses.
• Financial support to help cover the cost of professional membership subscriptions, course fees, books, exam fees and time off for study leave - so long as it's relevant to your role.
• Access to flexible benefits such as a share incentive plan, salary sacrifice car and technology schemes, support via employee assistance lines and matched charity giving to name a few.
• Family care benefits including a back-up care service for when your usual care arrangements fall through (six paid days each year as standard with the option to purchase further days).
• Access to apps that support health, fitness and wellbeing.

About us

National Grid Strategic Infrastructure is a Business Unit created to propel our grid forward to deliver in 5 years, what has been achieved in the previous 30. By 2030 we aim to have 17 new major infrastructure projects live across England, Scotland and Wales.

Here at National Grid, we connect homes and businesses to power, making sure supply and demand match each other. We make sure the lights are on in schools, operating theatres, and sporting arenas; we're thousands of people working on behalf of millions of people.

Our investment in Strategic Infrastructure via The Great Grid Upgrade will mean more home-grown power, greater energy security and a cleaner future. Whatever your role, wherever you work with us, you'll help us hit stretching targets and achieve our far-reaching goal: to secure, clean energy that supports our world far into the future. Here, you will be at the heart of energy.