Assistant Land Consultant

Location/s: Croydon, Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Cardiff; UK
Recruiter contact: Emma Cantley

Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices. 

We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual. 

Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you’re surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best. As a proudly employee-owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued. Whatever your ambition, Mott MacDonald is where people come to be brilliant.

About the business unit  
Mott MacDonald’s Advisory and Programme Delivery (APD) unit delivers both project, programme & commercial management (PPCM) services and advisory solutions across the built environment, defence, energy, water, environmental, transportation, health and care sectors.  

We deliver tailored solutions that directly address our clients’ key challenges, combining our world-leading project expertise with unrivalled programme delivery capabilities and advisory services. 

APD delivers services to projects ranging in scale and complexity up to £20bn, through the technical disciplines of programme management, project management, project controls, scheduling, cost management, estimating, infrastructure finance, management consulting, digital consulting and education, health and care management.   

Specialist advisory 
Our industry-leading specialist advisory teams offer a range of transformational services that support our core project, programme, and commercial offering, as well as supporting our clients in addressing their business needs. These includes climate change, estimating and cost intelligence, health, safety and wellbeing, land advisory, planning PMO, quality management and risk management. 

The specialist advisory team brings together multiple critical services in a connected offering, drawing on cross-sector best practice and expertise. We add huge value to our clients through our integrated approach, whilst relentlessly focus on excellence and our passion for improving society. 

Overview of the role
Whilst reporting directly to an experienced Land Consultant, you will combine office and onsite activities for large-scale infrastructure projects. These activities will range from undertaking site visits, the printing, preparation and posting of statutory notices and letters, affixing notices onsite and some stakeholder engagement. The focus of this role and opportunity is to support the team delivering on some of the UK’s biggest infrastructure projects.

Key responsibilities and duties include:

• Data entry into our stakeholder relationship management solution and ensuring data kept up to date and accurate
• Assisting with onsite land referencing and engaging with landowners
• Landowner identification and liaising with the general public and property owners both onsite and via phone or email
• Telephone, post and email support
• Assisting our GIS & Mapping team to interpret spatial data and produce Land Ownership and Access Plans
• Assisting with the production of statutory notices, access agreements and associated access plans – printing, posting and affixing notices onsite
• Working within our consents and engagement team of planners, stakeholder engagement and land and digital / GIS specialists

Candidate specification
Required criteria for the ideal Assistant Land Consultant:

• Good communication skills and able to liaise with both internal and external stakeholders
• Ability in prioritising a busy workload with deadlines
• Develop geographical skills, knowledge and understanding
• Take the initiative to plan and implement tasks to achieve goals and working effectively within teams
• Communicate with clarity and enthusiasm to different audiences. Listen to and accept the value of different views
• Achieve intended goals when engaging with colleagues and other stakeholders, independently and in a team
• Actively engage in continuing professional development (CPD) necessary to maintain and enhance competence in an area of practice
• Communicate effectively and build strong working relationships
• Be aware of the context(s) in which you and your organisation use and deliver services and products
• Competent in Microsoft packages including MS word and Excel
• Motivated and conscientious
• Able to work to a high level of accuracy and attention to detail in tasks such as production of documents
• Strong team player
• Some basic GIS knowledge, preferably ArcGIS, advantageous but not essential
• Able to work in a fast-paced environment whilst being under pressure
• Full clean driving license and ability to travel, with flexible working arrangements
• UK travel and office working essential

UK Immigration

Mott MacDonald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This decision is as a consequence of the changes made to the Skilled Worker route by the UK Government in April 2024. We continue to welcome applications from candidates who are eligible for alternative immigration routes in the UK, that do not require sponsorship as a Skilled Worker now or in future.

Agile working  

At Mott MacDonald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team, and personal commitments. We offer a hybrid working policy that embraces your well-being, flexibility, and trust.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion 

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.

Accessibility

We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

Health and wellbeing

• Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
• Health cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments.
• Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
• A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.
• Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.

Financial wellbeing

• We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
• Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.
• Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury.
• Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
• As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.

Lifestyle

• A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme.
• Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service.
• Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high-street retailers.

 Enhanced family and carers leave

• Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
• Our shared parental leave matches maternity leave meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay.
• Up to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.

Learning and development

• Primary annual professional institution subscription.
• A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development options.

Networks, communities, and social outcomes

• Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.
• Make a difference within our communities through our social outcomes.

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