Utilities Land Rights Manager

2 weeks ago


Birmingham, United Kingdom HS2 (High Speed Two) Full time

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Job Description

Location - Birmingham

Salary - Base salary: £36,300 pa to c.£ 45,350 pa depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer flexible benefits fund of 15% which is paid on top base salary and is fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefits - check them out in the Benefits section on our website

H2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential. In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

The Utility Land Rights Manager is responsible for managing the processes established to ensure timely delivery of utility land rights required for the HS2 project. This scope covers non-contestable and contestable utility diversions for the entire HS2 line of route (both Phase 1 and Phase 2).

About the role:

  • Actively promote and embed Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work, and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI
  • Responsible for overseeing utility land right cases on the route that includes a highly diverse mix of land and property, spanning cities and large areas of rural land on behalf of the Senior Utility Land Rights Manager
  • Overseeing the process to ensure consideration sums are negotiated to settlement within governance, industry guidelines and budget parameters so that land rights are complete at the right time for the project
  • Proactively build relationships across a range of organisations; external strategic suppliers and utility companies along with internal stakeholders and teams, enabling the negotiation process to be carried out effectively
  • Provide relevant technical advice to the delivery function to inform decision making at the early stages of design and construction work
  • Collaborate and communicate with other members of the Land and Property Acquisition and Management teams to ensure a common and consistent approach is adopted across HS2.

About You:

Skills:

  • Ability to manage communications and negotiations in a tactful way
  • External Strategic Supplier management to ensure efficient delivery
  • Stakeholder management
  • Communicating effectively with teams to ensure smooth flow of information
  • IT skills, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint or equivalent
  • Ability to access and maintain information from multiple IT databases and systems.

Knowledge:

  • A relevant qualification in Surveying or another property related discipline or relevant work-based experience working towards qualification
  • An understanding of the compulsory purchase process or other government compensation schemes (training will be provided).
  • An understanding of the utility and telecommunications industries

Type of Experience:

  • Experience of working in or with the utilities sector
  • Experience of working with suppliers to develop effective working relationships and manage performance to ensure delivery through the supply chain.
  • Experience in managing Strategic Suppliers
  • Experience in delivering large scale infrastructure projects

The post-holder is expected to behave at all times in a manner consistent with the HS2 values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity and Respect.

It is expected that you will actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

We ask for a variety of detail in your online application, however we perform the first assessment of suitability for a role based solely on the information in your CV. In a further development of our efforts to create a more diverse workforce, your CV will be anonymised and personal information will be removed during the first stage of the application review. This removes bias from the process and makes it even more important that you attach an updated word version of your CV for each new application ensuring you include evidence directly related to the criteria in the job advert. Watch this video on how we remove bias in the recruitment process: Removing bias in the recruitment process (youtube.com)

Any applications received after the closing date will not be considered.

About Us

High Speed 2 (HS2 Ltd) will be the UK's new high speed rail network. As well as improving capacity, the new scheme will shorten journey times between a number of Britain's major population centres, boost the economy and create thousands of jobs.

HS2 Ltd will create a skills legacy and develop a diverse range of talent. We aim to be a leader in EDI practice by creating a safe & inclusive working environment for all our staff - living our values of Safety, Respect, Integrity and Leadership.

In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

HS2 Ltd is also a safety-critical organisation. Employees are required to ensure reasonable care of their own and others' health and safety by taking personal responsibility for working to our 'Safe at Heart' programme principles and following safe working procedures at all times.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential.

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