Property Solicitor

2 months ago

Worthing, United Kingdom Southern Water Full time

Closing Date

13/09/2024

Job Title: Property Solicitor

Location: Durrington/hybrid

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: 37, Monday to Friday

Salary: circa £60,000 dependent on experience

There has never been a better time to join our organisation as we build towards a greener future, tackling climate change, minimising our environmental impact and reducing our carbon footprint

Job Overview

The Property Solicitor role is part of the Property team within our Legal Services Department in Southern Water (“the Company”). The Property team supports Southern Water (“the Company”) to manage a diverse property portfolio which includes operational waste and water sites, offices, grazing land, housing, renewable energy projects, environmental projects and telecommunications apparatus. It helps to maintain and enhance the value of the Company’s estate and its income over the long term. This includes dealing with the acquisition and disposal of property and land, in addition to managing a lettings portfolio.

To deliver, manage and develop the Company’s conveyancing provision, and process. To minimise risk in accordance with Company strategy and in compliance with legal, statutory, and regulatory requirements and to ensure the protection of Company’s current and future interests in land. To produce all legal documentation required in accordance with above requirements. To actively promote and pursue SW’s core policies, ensuring excellent customer relations are maintained, and processes are improved to enhance customer satisfaction. Dealing with third parties and stakeholders such as property owners, developers, external solicitors and HMLR. In addition, there are several internal customer and stakeholder interfaces to whom we provide a key service of expertise and therefore the ability to develop and maintain good relationships is important and excellent communication skills essential.

About You

You will be responsible for the provision of advice on any property related matters, the negotiation and delivery of all legal agreements required relating to acquisitions, disposals, leases, easements, sewer requisitions, diversions, and adoptions. This includes managing a caseload of both transactional and advice matters, and to secure income, by way of legal fees, for the Company.

You will be a Solicitor or Legal Executive (circa 2 -5 years PQE). Ideally have previous Commercial property experience. Previous utility company experience would be advantageous but is not essential. Previous property litigation experience would be a plus. Good Water Industry Act 1991 knowledge would be a nice to have.

Package

This role will be full time Monday to Friday with a hybrid approach to working between our Durrington office and home. We are offering a salary of circa £60,000 per annum depending on skills and experience as well as other benefits including:

• Company and performance-related bonus

• Generous pension with up to 11% company contribution

• Life assurance payment equal to four times your annual salary

• Health benefits through a Cash Plan

• Two paid community volunteering days a year

• 25 days annual holiday

• Occupational health service

• Stars Reward gateway offering discounts and savings on several products and experiences

• Study support may be available for job-related qualifications

• We offer competitive maternity leave and flexible return to work options

Join our Legal team and see how far your career could progress with a company committed to career progression, training and development opportunities, our customers and the environment.

Does this opportunity excite you but you’re not 100% sure if you meet all the requirements for the role? Or are you concerned that ‘normal’ office hours aren’t possible given your personal circumstances? Whilst we can’t accommodate every flexible working request, we’ll try to find a practical solution. So why not engage with us and find out more about this role?

Our customers are at the heart of everything we do, because delivering water for life is our core purpose. To achieve this, we need 24/7 support in place to resolve incidents quickly and efficiently. All our employees understand the importance of out-of-hours incident support – because when problems appear, fixing them is our top priority. That’s why our people join together and support when and however needed to make sure our customers get the service they deserve. Joining the Southern Water family means you’ll become part of our incident support team. During your interview, your manager will speak to you about any incident support rotas that apply to your position.

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