Land Access Manager - Grays

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About the role

Our Balfour Beatty Highways business has a terrific opportunity for a Land Access Manager for our Lower Thames Crossing project.

Balfour Beatty Highways maintain, manage and operate major highway networks across the UK and support local authorities creating communities where people want to live work and play.

We provide high quality asset strategy, management and planning consultancy services to a wide range of public and private sector customers. We provide specialist, reliable, sustainable and creative advice for asset management planning and implementation in the UK. We put our customers first and prioritise completing schemes safely, efficiently and to a high standard.

What you'll be doing

As a Land Access Manager, you will manage the Land Access Team, work with the National Highways Lands Team, co-ordinate interface between Project Teams, Security Manager, Landowners and Stakeholders for Land and Property Access, Pre-condition Surveys, Monitoring and Hand Back process to support the construction teams in delivering the project

• Manage Land Access Tracker, data collection, collation, and analysis of Land Plots.
• Maintain and update Land Files.
• Coordinate and undertake (or manage supplier resource) for the pre-condition surveys.
• Monitor LTC Roads North Land Access Management Plan, Land File, handover, monitoring use of land, soils, and hand back process.
• Promote a positive environmental culture through proactive engagement and communications with project teams, including the supply chain.
• Build and develop relationships with all relevant internal and external stakeholders.
• Implement the standards and expectations across the Project relating to Balfour Beatty's responsibilities concerning land including duties in respect of principal contractor as per Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 in line with section S1100.
• Agreeing period of maintenance post Completion of the whole of the works, remediation, making good and post-condition survey for land that is to be handed back

Who we're looking for

• Degree Level qualified or Diploma accredited from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) desirable, with relevant experience in Agriculture or Civil Engineering, or related similar discipline such as Rural Enterprise and Land Management (REALM)
• Relevant CSCS Card.
• Knowledge of Energy and Carbon [PAS 2080] (desirable).
• Understanding of investigation (root cause analysis) techniques for Environment and Health Safety incident investigation.
• Experience of taking notes and records of meetings with client, stakeholders or supply chain.
• Strong and effective communication skills.
• Experience in construction environment (desirable).

Still interested? then come and become colleagues with 26,000 staff and join a business which recorded 8.6bn in revenues last year, achieved industry leading customer satisfaction scores and has unrivalled employee engagement statistics.

An excellent range of benefits awaits the successful candidate: -

• An attractive salary
• Pension savings schemes
• A whole host of other BB staff employee bens (discounts, exclusive offers etc)
• Refer a friend bonus scheme
• Scores of other Balfour Beatty opportunities available as well via our balfourbeattycareers.com portal

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UKs most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Why join us?

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasnt rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You'll have the freedom to shape the package thats right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more

About us

Balfour Beattys Highways business delivers major schemes including motorway upgrade programmes, complex national infrastructure projects and regional investment programme works for National Highways. We have a strong orderbook and a positive pipeline of opportunities, we put the road user, at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, reduce carbon emissions and added social value to the communities within which we work.

Diversity and inclusion

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion

We are a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/

We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com