Land Agent

**Land Agent**

**Location: Perth**

Bell Ingram is looking for a highly enthusiastic and motivated Land Agent to join their Utilities team to help deliver framework projects across Scotland.

**What we can offer**

You’ll be adding talent and imagination to a business with the ambition to help deliver diverse and challenging projects.

Bell Ingram offers excellent career prospects, training, enhanced holiday package and family leave, salary commensurate with your skills, and flexible working is available from day one of employment.

**Your benefits**
- Flexible working
- Enhanced maternity and paternity
- Cycle to work scheme
- Day off for your birthday
- Volunteer leave
- Access to 24/7 GP and mental health support
- Annual staff conference
- Social and sporting events.

**The role**

The Land Agent will support the team by managing existing framework projects to deliver utility, infrastructure, and renewable projects.

Tasks will include;
- Liaising with landowners to secure land rights 
- CPO related work including compensation claims for rural and utility clients
- Renewable energy project valuations.
- Digital mapping
- Land referencing 
- Maintaining good records, being commercially aware and providing regular client updates.
- Supporting the delivery of a diverse and exciting portfolio of projects. Applicants should be comfortable managing multiple projects at different stages of development and excel at keeping projects moving forward efficiently on schedule and within budget.

**Qualifications and Skills**
- Practical knowledge or experience of rural land management is essential
- MRICS/Registered Valuers preferred but not essential
- Competent in Microsoft Office packages.
- Be comfortable meeting people on-site and virtually - colleagues, clients, and other stakeholders. 
- Well organised and self-motivated with good attention to detail
- Able to work under pressure and to work quickly and efficiently
- Full clean driving licence with own car
- Ability to use digital mapping systems to prepare plans is desirable
- Practical experience in farming or forestry and a knowledge and understanding of wayleaves would be advantageous.

**About Bell Ingram**

With over 100 years’ experience, Bell Ingram is a leading firm of rural business specialists, and our people are at the heart of our success.

Bell Ingram has a strong culture built on the respect of our employees who deliver exceptional services for our clients. Above all we value in our colleagues what our clients value in them, honesty; courtesy; accuracy; efficiency and a positive attitude.

We are known as a friendly firm of people you want to do business with, which is reflected in a culture of openness and inclusivity. With a strong teamwork ethic running throughout our offices, our colleagues look out for one another and spur each other on.

Bell Ingram promotes growth in our colleagues at every step in their careers, helping them to reach their full potential. As a business we are invested in your success, both in and out of the workplace, and ensuring employee wellbeing is central to this.

We offer a competitive remuneration package commensurate to the skills and experience of the successful applicant along with excellent training opportunities and career progression prospects.

**About our Perth office**

Situated on the banks of the River Tay in Perth, Durn has been Bell Ingram’s headquarters since 1962. The Perth office boasts the biggest head count of all Bell Ingram offices and has representatives, mainly Partner level, from all service areas.

In addition to Rural Land Management, Estate Agency, Architecture, Forestry and Utilities services our Accounts Department, who provide financial services for numerous clients and Bell Ingram itself, are based here.

**How to apply**

Flexible working is supported across our teams and an element of home working will be considered.

Bell Ingram is committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion among our workforce, and eliminating unlawful discrimination. We are proud to be a Carer Positive organisation.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £30,000.00-£40,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Additional leave
- Bereavement leave
- Casual dress
- Company car
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Free parking
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Paid volunteer time
- Sick pay
- Work from home

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends

Supplemental pay types:

- Bonus scheme

**Education**:

- Bachelor's (preferred)

**Experience**:

- Land surveying: 1 year (required)

Ability to Commute:

- Perth (required)

Ability to Relocate:

- Perth: Relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 08/03/2024
Reference ID: Land Agent, Utilities