Assistant Land Consultant

At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives, while supporting communities and aligning to your values.

• Your work will support our teams in the delivery of 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 Registers of Scotland 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 within Scotland and the wider UK and Ireland business.
• You will provide guidance to support junior colleagues and be able to review other colleagues’ work.
• You will develop commercial awareness with an understanding of budget, scope, change control and other project management activities, including identification of project risks to the project owner.
• The role may involve client-facing activities where you will represent the business as an Assistant Land Consultant level on projects.

• A keen interest in delivering land services for clients (whether land referencing, survey access, stakeholder and landowner engagement or statutory processes). If you have relevant transferable skills and are passionate about the land and consenting industry, we would love to hear from you.
• Experience of working as part of multi-disciplinary teams to deliver high quality outputs for clients.
• Effective communication and organisational skills with ability to liaise at all levels with internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to undertake technical assurance of other colleagues’ work.
• Drive and enthusiasm to create strong technical work.
• A full UK driving licence is required.
• 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 projects.
• Identification of land, ownership, and interests in land.
• General understanding of Scottish land ownership and land management practices.
• Project management skills from infrastructure projects.
• Stakeholder engagement for infrastructure projects.
• Experience and/or knowledge of UK statutory consents requirements, would be an advantage, but not essential. Consents examples include Hybrid Bill, TWAO, DCO, CPO, and/or Vesting Order.
• Experience of W ayleaves and Necessary Wayleave agreements for Energy Projects would be beneficial.

Entry level

Full-time

Other

Professional Services

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom