Associate Land Consultant

Description

• Promote our adherence to Data Protection and development of our processes
• Promote our adherence to Quality Assurance and development of our processes
• Delivered a Development Consent Order (DCO) project, ensuring compliance with statutory requirements and successful coordination across multidisciplinary teams.
• Provide Technical Direction on Land projects within UK, including the relevant statutory processes to acquire land and land rights including Vesting Order, CPO, Motorway Order, Wayleaves etc
• Manage Resource Strategy including staff retention, planning for succession and recruitment to ensure that the Ireland team has the necessary skills and resources to deliver successful projects and grow the business
• Work closely with our other WSP Disciplines in the UK, including Engineering, Engagement, Environmental and Planning teams, to exploit opportunities at multidisciplinary and strategic level and grow our business
• Lead at Project Director level, successful delivery of projects on time, within budget and to the highest standards.
• Promote our WSP culture of health, safety & wellbeing (HS&W)
• Lead the writing of bids/tenders to secure opportunities
• Raise profile of WSP Land in Birmingham / Manchester, across public, target business sectors and academia.
• Be a trusted advisor to clients (externally and internally). Actively engage with client capture teams and Key Client Managers (KCMs)
• Undertake project reviews to support risk and opportunity management as appropriate. Routinely review task/project delivery to ensure alignment with client needs and objectives. Seek client feedback, proactively share it, and ensure feedback is acted on
• Lead the delivery of WSP Land business development across the UK electricity, highway, rail, water, telecoms, gas and renewable energy sectors to secure new projects, extensions to projects and new clients.

Requirements

• Extensive experience with Linear Land Referencing projects, managing complex datasets and supporting legal and planning processes.
• Ability to travel to site and remote locations
• Excellent team working skills at all levels and ability to work under pressure to deliver high-quality outputs.
• Experience working with multi-disciplinary teams across a range of sectors and locations and through all stages of scheme development.
• Skilled in resource strategy and development.
• Degree in Geography, Agriculture, Land and Estate Management or similar; chartership or professional membership advantageous.
• Ireland and UK travel
• Strong landowner and public engagement skills with excellent influencing and negotiating abilities.
• Contribute to positive team & project outcomes. Engender collective purpose to achieve project/team goals. Excellent team working with other members of senior leadership in WSP Land
• Proven ability to reduce land risk for clients and advise on land-related matters throughout all stages of a project lifecycle.
• Experience managing and directing the delivery of Land Services, including land referencing, Orders production, acquisition of consents, consultation, and landowner engagement on infrastructure development schemes.
• Knowledge of rural environment, property, communities, and agricultural working practices.
• Experience developing business and services with existing clients and securing new business opportunities.
• Knowledge of target business market in Ireland.
• Experience in bid writing and approvals process.
• Strong business and IT skills with adherence to quality assurance, data protection, and Health & Safety standards.
• Experience of Public Inquiries/Oral Hearings and managing objections.
• Ability to communicate effectively and develop strong relationships with senior clients and management colleagues.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance