Graduate Land Referencer

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At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world's most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.

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There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of nearly 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.

Our Land Referencing Teams in Leeds and Manchester have a fantastic graduate opportunity available with a **start date of June 2025 onwards.**We are looking for ambitious, hardworking, enthusiastic graduates who have **computational, mathematical and design skills.**

**About our Team**

Our Land Referencing Team are involved in some of the UK’s most complex, iconic, and challenging infrastructure projects across various sectors including transport (aviation, rail, highways), utilities, housing, redevelopment, retail, environmental protection, commercial, private and public sectors.

With both international and domestic clients, we are committed to providing quality, innovative and sustainable solutions using the latest technology in civil & structural engineering whilst taking advantage of our integrated range of services by collaborating with other disciplines across AECOM.

**Projects**

The AECOM Land Referencing Team are currently working with several major clients across a wide variety of schemes. Current projects include National Grid’s Great Grid Upgrade, Anglian Water’s Grafham to Rede pipeline, Fosse Green Energy in Southwest Lincoln and Uniper’s Connah’s Quay Low Carbon Power project.

**Here's what you'll do**:
As a Graduate Land Referencer you will have the opportunity to work with high-profile clients supporting the collation of evidence, documentation and information for acquiring authorities to obtain land for the purposes of large development or infrastructure projects.

You will have the opportunity to contribute to a wide range of technical projects, with a wealth of experience from within the team to support you and develop your knowledge and skills. Whilst the precise work will be dependent on current projects, it is likely that your involvement would include:

- Supporting the wider team in the identification of landowners, occupiers and other parties that hold a legal interest in land
- Working with our GIS team to interpret spatial data and produce Land Ownership and Access Plans
- Assisting with onsite land referencing and engaging with affected landowners
- Assisting in the preparation of statutory documentation and support multi-disciplinary teams in managing land & stakeholder risk for infrastructure projects

**Enjoy the Perks**

At AECOM, you'll enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and well-being, customised to fit your lifestyle. Take advantage of career development opportunities, our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work-life balance that suits your lifestyle, technical practice networks, AECOM University, and volunteering days.

**Here is what you will get from us**

On the job support and learning

When a graduate starts at AECOM, we pair them with a senior member of the team who will guide and mentor them through their initial period working on live projects and business development tasks, to support with any technical queries.

Graduate Development Programme

Our 2 year graduate ADVANCE programme is designed to help you build your career in AECOM. You will attend a number of instructor-led training sessions where you will meet and hear from people across the business and take part in a series of interactive activities to equip you with the knowledge and skills you need to succeed in your role. Alongside the instructor-led elements of the ADVANCE programme, you will also engage with an online curriculum via AECOM University and have the opportunity to join the ADVANCE webinar series. We will provide you with all the support and tools you need to achieve your professional development ambitions, which may include Chartership with the relevant international professional institution.

We have more than 750 graduates on our programmes across the UK and Ireland from more than 40 different disciplines, each making a tangible difference to the environment in which we live and work.

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