# Senior Land Consultant

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Edinburgh, Midlothian
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Consulting
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

We are seeking a Senior Land Consultant to join our team in Scotland. As a Senior Land Consultant, you will focus on securing land, land access, arranging surveys, and building strong relationships with stakeholders and landowners via statutory powers and/or negotiation.

The role involves leading audits and quality assurance reviews of land referencing documentation and processes, driving integration of land requirements with engineering, planning, and environmental strategies, and providing senior-level advice to clients and project boards on land acquisition risks and opportunities.

Key responsibilities include:

- Securing land and land access through statutory powers and/or negotiation

- Building strong relationships with stakeholders and landowners

- Leading audits and quality assurance reviews of land referencing documentation and processes

- Driving integration of land requirements with engineering, planning, and environmental strategies

- Providing senior-level advice to clients and project boards on land acquisition risks and opportunities

- Overseeing compliance with statutory processes and ensuring projects meet regulatory and legal obligations

- Resolving disputes and escalating sensitive issues with diplomacy and authority

- Contributing to commercial strategy and risk management for land-related contracts

- Establishing training programs and succession planning within the Land team

- Managing and developing a team of early career professionals

Requirements:

- Degree or equivalent experience in Geography, Land/Estate Management, Agriculture, or a relevant discipline

- Experience of delivering land referencing, land access, landowner engagement services, and statutory processes on major infrastructure projects

- Experience of negotiating with landowners and knowledge of the legal process for the acquisition of wayleaves/easements/servitudes

- Experience working with multi-disciplinary teams across a range of sectors and locations

- Demonstrable experience of reducing land risk for clients and advising them on land-related matters

- Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to build relationships with colleagues, landowners, and clients at all levels

We offer flexible working patterns, competitive salaries, and other benefits.

## Skills

### Required
- Geography
- Land/Estate Management
- Agriculture
- statutory processes
- negotiation
- stakeholder engagement

### Nice to have
- experience working on infrastructure projects
- knowledge of land access permissions
- site safety experience
- chartership or membership of a professional body

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