Trainee / Graduate Estates Surveyor

Location
- Newport
- Salary
- £33,550 - £38,341
- Contract
- Permanent (Full Time)
- Closing date
- 2nd June 2025
- Working hours
- 37 hours Monday to Friday

Who are we?

We are a gas distribution business that services the gas infrastructure across Wales and the south-west of England. We serve our customers and communities with safe, reliable, and affordable energy services whilst investing to create a sustainable future to deliver our carbon-free vision for 2050.

What we’re looking for?

We’ve got an exciting opportunity for a Trainee/Graduate Estates Surveyor to join our small but busy Estates Team to gain practical experience and develop your career and the skills required to become a Chartered Surveyor.

This role will involve providing support to the Estates Team and dealing with a wide range of land and property related matters.

You must have a passion to build a career as a Surveyor and the desire to work towards obtaining a suitable professional qualification (RICS/CAAV).

We’ll trust you to:

- Manage your own workload and provide a land and easement acquisition service for gas mains connections, diversions, reinforcement, replacement, and other work to maintain and develop the gas network
- Manage instructions given to Wales & West Utilities’ external land agents for the negotiation of easements, land acquisitions and disposals
- Monitor instructions given to WWU’s nominated solicitors engaged in the legal work for land/easement acquisition and disposal through to legal completion.
- Maintain accurate records of property ownership, easements, leases, and other land rights.
- Review leasehold operational property and apparatus, ensuring compliance with lease terms and maintenance of rental payments.

You’ll need to have:

- A high level of competence in IT skills and record keeping.
- Ability to manage a varied and demanding workload responding to a high number of enquiries from internal and external sources.
- An understanding of the legal principles applicable to easements and land rights.
- Ability to manage a varied workload to demanding timescales.
- Good communication skills to ensure effective passage of instructions and advice between operational personnel and external service providers.
- A full UK Driving Licence as you will be expected to visit our sites and depots across the network

Desirable:

- Experience with mapping systems such as ESRI GIS.
- Experience in a similar role, with a desire to work towards a suitable professional qualification (RICS/CAAV) would be an advantage.

We would also love to hear about anything else you feel you could add or bring to the role

What’s in it for you?
- A competitive salary starting at £33,550 rising to £38,341 alongside great progression opportunities
- Hybrid working
- Flexible working opportunities
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays which can be tailored to celebrations that reflect your beliefs
- Retirement Savings Plan (pension) with Aviva: 5% employee contribution, with WWU doubling your contribution at 10% - totalling 15%
- 14 x salary Life Insurance linked to membership of the Retirement Savings Plan
- “Choices” flexible benefit scheme options including corporate gym memberships, dental insurance, and health cash-plans
- Access to our Financial Wellbeing Programme - allowing you to manage your benefits flexibly to suit your financial needs
- Enhanced pay for parental leave
- Retail discounts and cashback scheme
- Annual salary review
- Discretionary annual bonus
- Company Sick Pay
- In-house Occupational Health Team
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Comprehensive training

The way we do things

Our Ambition, Priorities and Values inform everything we do as a business - from our strategic planning to the performance management of our colleagues. Our values underpin everything we do and we are committed to creating a working environment that supports and fosters diversity, inclusion and equity, where all of our colleagues feel valued and supported to contribute to their full potential.

We are focused on creating a culture where it doesn’t matter about gender, race, sexuality or disability; it’s about our colleagues’ skills, the way we do things and how we live our values.

Interested?

If you think you’d make a good addition to the team, we would love to hear from you