Land Consultant in Leeds

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WSP’s Land team is seeking talented Land professionals to join what is already the largest and most successful team in our industry. This is an exciting opportunity to develop or begin a career with a team that enjoys a successful reputation for the successful delivery of major strategic infrastructure projects across the UK and Ireland through the support provided by land referencing, urban and rural landowner engagement, consultation management, land access, formal consents, statutory orders, compensation agreements and land acquisition.

The Role: We are the largest and most successful Land business supporting infrastructure development in the UK and Ireland, with 300+ specialist professional colleagues consisting of land consultants, property specialists, project managers and utility and topographical surveyors. We have the widest portfolio of projects available in our industry, offering unrivalled opportunities to both develop and diversify careers, working on some of the most exciting and challenging projects across the whole of the UK and Ireland.

Your work will support our teams in the delivery of land referencing, land access, landowner & stakeholder engagement, optioneering and statutory processes:

• Identification of landowners, occupiers and other parties that hold an interest in land, through interpretation and research of the appropriate land registry information.
• Liaising with landowners, land agents, legal representatives, planning authorities, stakeholders, contractors and clients.
• Working with multi-disciplinary teams to secure access to land for surveys, whether by agreement or through statutory mechanisms.
• Contribute to WSP Land delivery and success of high-profile infrastructure projects locally and the wider UK and Ireland business.
• You will provide training and mentoring to junior colleagues and the ability to undertake technical assurance of other colleagues’ work and contribute to and participate in our CPD-accredited Land Academy.
• You will have commercial awareness with an understanding of budget, scope, change control and other project management activities, including identification of project and data security risks.
• The role will involve client-facing activities where you will represent the business at Land Consultant level on projects.
• UK and Ireland travel plus the possibility of travel to WSP’s Global Capability Centre (GCC) in India.

What we will be looking for you to demonstrate:

• A keen interest in delivering land services for clients (including land referencing, survey access, stakeholder and landowner engagement or statutory processes).
• Experience of working as part of multi-disciplinary teams to deliver high quality outputs for clients.
• Effective communication and organizational skills with ability to liaise at all levels with internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to delegate and undertake technical assurance of other colleagues’ work.
• Drive and enthusiasm to create strong technical work.
• The ability to travel effectively to various sites/locations is a necessary function of this role.
• General IT skills, Microsoft Office suite including Teams, and basic skills with GIS/mapping tools.

If you have specific skills in the following fields and have ambition to apply and extend your skills within infrastructure projects as it applies to land and consenting:

• Identification of land, ownership, and interests in land.
• Strong understanding of land ownership and land management practices.
• Project management skills in infrastructure projects.
• Stakeholder engagement for infrastructure projects.
• Experience and/or knowledge of UK statutory consents requirements, would be an advantage, but not essential.
• Experience of wayleave agreements would be beneficial.

Don’t quite meet all the criteria? Apply, and we can see how your experience aligns to this role and other opportunities within the team.

Your development: We appreciate that development and training is important to you and that is why we have a supportive environment that invests in your development, whether that’s chartership, training or mentoring. WSP’s Land Academy is designed and delivered by our expert Land team for our Land team, with a focus on providing the best standard training and CPD across the industry and support and guidance to achieve your chartership.

With a broad selection of projects, we don’t pigeonhole you into a particular project or role. The Land Academy enables you to broaden your capability into GIS, Data Management, Valuations, Negotiations, Referencing and Access and Project Management to be a more rounded and valuable consultant. Project experience rotates, on average, around every 18 months. Day to day activities vary from site activities, landowner engagement, access negotiations, client meetings, project management, report writing, data management, digital innovation scoping and map production.

The role is based in our Leeds or Newcastle offices, with the flexibility of hybrid working between one of these locations and from home. The Candidate will ideally be located within North Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, East Riding of Yorkshire, County Durham, Teesside, Tyne and Wear or North Lincolnshire.

Join our close-knit community of talented individuals who share your passion for making a positive impact. Our global team includes more than 69,000 employees, working together to make a difference in communities both close to home and around the world. With us, you can. Apply today.