Senior Land & Estates Surveyor

Job Description

The ScottishPower Renewables (SPR) Senior Land and Estates Surveyor is responsible for managing a portfolio of work in the expanding SPR onshore including wind, wind repower, BESS and solar opportunities.

Services cover the capture of land from inception to completion of the process in line with project requirements, including: HOTs, Acquisitions, Land Referencing, Estates Management & Rentals and Landowner Relationship Management.

What you'll be doing

• Team Support- assist the Land & Estates Manager and Head of Delivery with all matters across Onshore Delivery Team.
• Land Rights Negotiation- lead and manage negotiations for Heads of Terms and land rights documents with landowners and their representatives. Ensure Hots templates are up to date.
• Collaboration - collaborate with Legal and Project teams to secure necessary rights.
• Legal Agreement Oversight - review, create, and update legal agreements to ensure suitability and compliance.
• Valuation & Specialist Advice- provide land rights valuations and expert input on compulsory purchase, land strategy, and technical rights.
• Consistency & Risk Management - maintain consistency across projects, update templates, and report deviations. Identify and advise on risks, offering solutions where appropriate.
• Land KPIs- act as a key project team member, ensuring land requirements are met on time. Identify shortfalls, mitigation and remedies and pursue to solution as required. Drive Land Strategies for more complex projects.
• JV Oversight - ensure that rights and obligations are fully understood and transferred across between development, construction and operational functions and where appropriate JV partners. Where management responsibility lies with a joint venture partner, ensure that project and business obligations continue to be met, putting in place and managing monitoring and quality assurance procedures.
• Due Diligence- input into and completion of project due diligence exercises in relation to the acquisition of new renewable projects or entry into new joint ventures.
• Estate Management- ensure adherence with lease terms and property rights. Initiate and complete audits of land right adherence (either physically or by document) at appropriate times to ensure compliance with land rights.
• Stakeholder Engagement - act as a senior point of contact for landowners and project teams.
• System Management- support Estate Management Team with inputting into LMS (Land Management System) or SAP RE. Ensure Land data is kept up to date on MS Lists and Power BI. Extract information and provide detail and reports as necessary.
• Financial Obligations - ensure financial obligations are understood and met. Liaise with the Estate Management team for the required payments across all stages of transaction.
• Team Development - mentor, guide, assist and train members of the Land & Estates team as required to allow them to fulfil their duties.

What you'll bring

• Degree in land related discipline
• Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
• Experience in estates management and acquisition surveying
• Understanding of the Renewables market and Technologies
• Driving licence

What's in it for you

As well as a competitive salary which is reviewed annually, you can also enjoy a number of other benefits. With our pension scheme, we'll double match your contribution up to a company contribution of 10%.

At ScottishPower, we believe it's the little things we do in life that make a big difference. From helping you look after your family's wellbeing, save for your future and take personal steps for climate action - our benefits are designed to help you do just that - so that you have everything you need to take care of your world - today and tomorrow. That's why our benefits include:

• 36 days annual leave
• Life Assurance (4x salary)
• Holiday Purchase - perfect your work/life balance with extra annual leave
• Share Schemes
• Technology Vouchers - save more and spread the cost of your technology purchases
• Electric Vehicle Schemes - to help you transition to green/clean driving
• Cycle to Work scheme and Public Transport Season Ticket Loans
• Healthcare benefit options including: Dental Insurance, Private Medical Insurance, Health Cash Plan and annual Health Assessments
• Plus shopping, leisure, restaurant and gym discounts, and unique employee deals on travel insurance and more

Why ScottishPower

ScottishPower is part of the Iberdrola Group, one of the world's largest integrated utility companies and a world leader in wind energy. With a commitment to generate all of our energy from renewable resources and a drive to create the energy infrastructure of the future, we're at the forefront of the journey to Net Zero and investing over £6m every working day to make this happen. With diverse opportunities across our businesses and a commitment to invest in our own internal talent, ScottishPower can offer people real career opportunities that meet personal and professional goals, in a global organisation.

Inclusion, diversity, and a social purpose are at the heart of everything we do. Together with our values, they bring us together into a stronger, more sustainable business with direct links to the communities we serve. It takes all kinds of people to build a large-scale business like ours, so whatever your background, you'll fit right in.

ScottishPower is committed to providing reasonable support or adjustments in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long term conditions, mental health conditions, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support. If you need support, please reach out to [email protected].

Please note that any applicant who is not a citizen of the country of the vacancy will be subject to compliance with the applicable immigration requirements to legally work in that country. If/when required, the Company will support the employee with the necessary Immigration requirements.