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Land Rights Liaison Officer
West Yorkshire
Permanent – Full Time
Starting Salary £27,840, Company Car or Car Allowance & Flexible Benefits

 

Role Purpose:
Freedom Land & Estates Management Services is seeking a Land Rights Liaison Officer to join our team, based at our client’s offices in Dewsbury, Keighley or Castleford. This is an excellent opportunity for an ambitious individual looking to progress toward a Wayleave Officer or Surveyor role.

The Land Rights Liaison Officer plays a key role in delivering a professional, efficient service to customers and grantors, ensuring strong relationships and timely consent acquisition. You will visit customers and landowners to secure standard consents for low complexity connection works involving third party land.

This is a development position with clear progression opportunities to Wayleave Officer or Surveyor. You will be carrying out a mixture of office work, regular site visits and home etc.

 

Interview Dates / Location Schedule:
Applicants must be available to interview as per one of the below dates and locations

15th June – Northallerton

18th June – Northallerton

22nd June – Castleford

26th June – Castleford

 

Key Responsibilities

Obtain standard consents for low complexity projects, including:

New connections

Grantor/property changes

Payment reassessments

Substation access reviews

Boundary and tenure enquiries

Simple drainage claims

Access arrangements for maintenance requiring site visits

The role requires face to face meetings with customers and grantors

You must be able to maintain strong organisational skills and demonstrate assertiveness

The role is positioned between the Wayleaves Support function and an existing team of Wayleave Officers

Full training and mentoring will be provided

 

What We’re Looking For

Strong customer service background

Ability to problem solve, prioritise, and perform under pressure

Excellent communication skills

 

Essential Qualifications:

Full, clean driving licence

Minimum 5 GCSEs (including Maths & English, Grade C or above)

Minimum 2 A-levels or equivalent

Customer service orientation

 

Desirable Experience:

Wayleaves and consents

Legal processes

Electricity industry regulations

Negotiation experience

 

 

Next Steps: 

As a business, we’re on a journey to build on our culture where everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. This starts with recruitment and how we bring people into the organisation.  

We’ll do our best to outline the recruitment process to you ahead of time with plenty of notice. If you require any accommodations to participate in the application or interview process, please let us know and we will work with you to ensure your needs are met. 

About Us:

Freedom are part of the NG Bailey Group, one of the leading independent engineering and services businesses in the UK. Founded in 1921, with a turnover of £500m and 3000 employees, we are proud of our history of developing great people through our investment in training.

Working across a variety of sectors within the building and infrastructure industry, our innovative, responsible and forward thinking approach allows us to work on fantastic ground-breaking projects, providing solutions using the latest tools and technologies

Progression is something we value and we will make sure that when you join us you have a clearly defined development path, supported by regular reviews, training and ongoing support to enable you to be the best you can be.

 

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