Land Specialist
Attractive benefits package; Equal Opportunity Employer; Relaxed and industrious atmosphere where you will be encouraged to speak out and contribute wherever you feel you have something to offer
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The Role
The Land Specialist is the go-to person within the Company who can act on Freedom Fibre's behalf in the field when it comes to building on private land. They will take field visit requests from internal teams, align them with their expertise in interaction, FTTP build, surveying and legal access rights and approach conversations and enter negotiations to procure land access rights for Freedom Fibre.
These conversations may be with local authorities, government bodies, parish councillors, residents, businesses, or farmers. The message is the same in that Freedom Fibre wants to provide connectivity for everyone and to do so agreements need to be in place; the Land Specialist will support the business in this.
Responsibilities
- Conducts survey, negotiation and consenting with residential, business, MoD and agricultural freeholders, dealing with the complex interface between FFL internal teams and freeholders resulting in agreements to facilitate wayleaves capturing timing, cost, efficiency, and environmental impacts.
- Keeps up to date and engaged with external areas ensuring FFL adherence to policy.
- Works with Marketing and Engagement to align messaging around wayleaves with local authorities, parish councillors and major freeholders including participation in community events helping to present the message.
- Apply in-depth knowledge to navigate regulatory frameworks and freeholder requirements operating as a field-based representative for Freedom Fibre.
- Adhere to internal compliance around data handling, information and external influences i.e. BDUK.
- Stay abreast of industry changes and emerging trends related to consents and approvals, working with the wayleaves department to ensure knowledge sharing.
- Provide regular updates to project teams, wayleaves and other internal stakeholders on consent-related matters, producing field reports proposing agreements and capturing key information to allow wayleaves to progress quickly.
- Work with designers to identify suitable alternatives in delivery solutions as and when required.
- Identify and assess potential risks associated with consents and approvals, demonstrating understanding and compromise requirements with freeholders.
- Develop and implement strategies to mitigate risks and ensure project success.
- Maintain accurate and comprehensive records of all consents and approvals.
- Manage and negotiate complex consents, wayleaves, access routes, easements and agreements in respect of the location of and works to distribution assets ensuring freeholder requirements are captured and communicated to the relevant teams including FFL build partners.
- Supporting on damage, compensation and other payment claims by seeking evidence and identifying cause and liability, use root cause analysis to prevent further occurrences, producing write up and providing the interface between FFL and the freeholder.
- Provide field-based assistance to procure wayleaves including chasing up open requests and possible cold calling in the event of radio silence from freeholders raising awareness and assisting in freeholder concerns.
Reporting To:
Senior Project Delivery Manager – B2B, MDU’s & Wayleaves
Experience & Personal Attributes
- You will be a proactive communicator and collaborator, capable of understanding internal requirements and translating this to people outside of telecommunications.
- You will have excellent face to face people skills and the ability to negotiate without compromising the business or its values.
- You will be able to communicate at all levels within the business providing clarity and information where needed.
- You are able to accept responsibility and provide delegated authority in the field to negotiate without the requirement for approval demonstrating responsibility to freeholders and capable of being decisive to secure wayleaves.
- You are pragmatic, tenacious and resilient with good project understanding, technical acumen in PIA and FTTP build and can understand problems and offer solutions.
- You can be empathetic to freeholders and understand their concerns and wishes whilst promoting the project and its outputs.
- You will have good understanding of wayleaves, easements and land consents and how these are processed and controlled.
- You will be an advocate of time management, capable of accepting job requests from multiple areas and capable of setting expectations on when these will be acted upon and how.
Freedom Fibre recognises the service provided by recruitment agencies and as such have a Preferred 2nd tier Supplier List, with whom terms of business have been agreed. Only suppliers who have signed up to these terms can place candidates with Freedom Fibre and will receive instruction directly from us to do so. Freedom Fibre is therefore unable to consider speculative CV's or proposals from any other third party and any speculative CV's or proposals being sent into the organisation will be treated as gifts.
As such, Freedom Fibre reserves the right to directly contact any candidates who have been speculatively submitted by a third party and shall therefore not be liable for any fees whatsoever should it choose to engage the candidate’s services. Furthermore, speculative submission of candidate CV's does not establish a right of representation should the same candidate’s details also be submitted by a Freedom Fibre Preferred 2nd tier Supplier or independently by the candidate themselves.
Submission of any unsolicited CV's and proposals to Freedom Fibre will be deemed evidence of full and unlimited acceptance of these terms and agreement that these terms are the totality of any commercial or contractual relationship whatsoever in respect of the candidate(s) whose unsolicited CV's were sent.
- Department
- Build & Delivery
- Locations
- Irlam
- Remote status
- Hybrid Remote
Irlam
Our Perks & Benefits
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🏄🏻♀️ 25 days paid vacation
We value that you get more time with your family and friends. We also offer an extra day for your birthday!
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🕐 Flexible working hours
We value work-life balance highly, therefore we have flexible working hours. -
🏡 Hybrid working
To help our team to manage their time more effectively.
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Regular social & team events 🕺
Twice a year we celebrate our successes as a team.
Workplace, Culture & Diversity
Corporate culture is essential to allow the organization to differentiate itself. In terms of image on the one hand, it has strengths both internally and externally to consumers. It is indeed a source of cohesion and motivation of employees and it limits conflicts. With customers, it conveys a positive image and can develop a feeling of closeness to the company or even become a criterion of choice.
Land Specialist
Attractive benefits package; Equal Opportunity Employer; Relaxed and industrious atmosphere where you will be encouraged to speak out and contribute wherever you feel you have something to offer
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