Surveying Associate in Belmont

Working hours: Full time 37 hours per week (flexible working arrangements including part time will be considered).

We have an exciting new opportunity for a Surveying Associate to join our Northumbrian Water Group Estates team. You will have the opportunity to assist in land negotiations, statutory processes, and compensation matters related to capital projects and operational access and land management. This role is responsible for initial engagement with landowners, farmers, and tenants to discuss new capital schemes, serve statutory notices, and process low-level compensation payments.

The Surveyor Associate will collect relevant land information and hand over complex compensation assessments and detailed negotiations to senior surveyors. You will manage internal and external stakeholder relationships to ensure smooth land transactions and project delivery.

If you are progressing towards chartered Associate status with RICS and have some experience with landowner engagement, negotiations or customer facing roles, we would love to hear from you! You will have some knowledge of land rights, wayleaves, easements, and compensation principles and an understanding of serving statutory notices and land referencing processes.

It would be great if you have experience working with farmers, landowners, or rural communities and some experience working in a regulated, utility, or infrastructure environment.

Here at Northumbrian Water/Essex & Suffolk Water, we embrace and value Diversity, Inclusion and Equity, and encourage all colleagues to bring their most authentic self to work. Our colleague network groups include our Rainbow Support Network (LGBTQIA+), REACH (Race, Ethnicity, and Cultural Heritage), WiSTEM (Women in STEM) and Thisability (disability and neurodiversity) networks. They provide a safe space for colleagues from diverse backgrounds, welcoming all colleagues regardless of their personal characteristics to participate in valuable conversation that improves our organisational awareness, understanding and inclusivity.

We encourage and welcome all applications, as we strive to be an equal opportunity employer, committed to having diverse communities represented within all our teams, structures, and organisation.

Please note this role will require a DBS to be completed prior to employment. NWG are an inclusive employer who support the rehabilitation of offenders, we will not, however consider candidates who have certain unspent convictions to ensure our commitment to fostering a safe and secure working environment for all colleagues, suppliers, customers and third parties.

We offer a range of benefits to colleagues, including:

• Generous holiday entitlement starting at 23 days, plus bank holidays and additional time off on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve. There’s also the option to buy or sell holidays.
• Company pension scheme, where we’ll double match your contributions up to an employer contribution of 10%.
• Free access to local attractions.
• A fantastic discount scheme, with savings on days out, shopping, travel and more.
• Award winning ‘Living Well’ wellbeing support, including access to a digital GP service for you and your family members.
• Support with sustainable travel - through salary sacrifice cars and a cycle to work scheme.
• Financial wellbeing support - access our community savings scheme, financial education and low cost loans through Salary Finance.
• 4 x Life Assurance and an Income Protection Scheme.
• Support with your development - we offer a range of development opportunities, can support you through an interest free qualification loan and we’ll even pay for any relevant professional body subscription.

This role has also been defined as a safety or security critical role and as a condition of a formal offer of employment you’ll be required to undergo a drug and alcohol test. Prospective employees and agency workers in defined safety and security critical roles will be required to undertake a drug and alcohol test after the job offer has been made. This will be prior to or within four weeks of their start date.