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Land Access Lead

Employer
HS2
Location
Birmingham or London
Salary
Competitive Salary
Closing date
12 Nov 2021

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Sector
Construction, Planning & Development, Land
Job Role
Supervisor
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time

Job Details

The role of Land Access Lead is required to manage resources and processes necessary to secure timely access to land with the consent of landowners or by notice under relevant statute (pre-Royal Assent) to enable a wide range of survey and investigation activities to proceed to programme.

About the Role:

  • Deliver site access on all lots of the Phase 2 scheme for environmental, ecological, noise, utility, heritage and ground investigation surveys in accordance with agreed Delivery programmes pre-Royal Assent.
  • Administer and manage PSC activities to ensure access is secured in accordance with the agreed survey programmes; monitor progress and performance and escalate non-performance to Contract Manager for contractual remediation and address.
  • Sign off survey payment schedule payments prepared by the Access Payment Officers for environmental and ground investigation works.
  • Sign off and agree crop loss and disturbance compensation payments for environmental and ground investigation works.
  • Provide single point of contact for access matters across HS2 to ensure access requests are coordinated, costs managed, and disruption to landowners kept to a minimum; • Agree and deliver the scope of access requests to ensure access sought is proportionate and defensible to ensure cost effectiveness of the survey programme.
  • Periodically review the form of Early Access Agreement, Ground Investigation agreement and template correspondence which accompany these and secure approval for any modifications from internal and external stakeholders to improve the form of agreement.
  • Prepare and deliver the financial access budgets (fees and survey compensation) based on forecast survey programmes, and the monthly reporting of actual and accrued payments against budget.
  • Provide regular and accurate reporting and forecasting to inform the monthly actuals and accruals figures prepared by the Access Payments Officer.
  • Manage interface with land agents, key stakeholders and landowners to ensure processes and fees are consistently applied; attend key meetings to review the works, address issues and concerns and ensure that the compensation packages are fair and appropriate to specific circumstances and consistently applied along the whole route; attend meetings with NFU/CLA/CAAV on access matters.
  • Actively promote and embed Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work, and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

About You:

  • Negotiation’s skills and an understanding of property issues arising from access for surveys in both rural and urban locations.
  • Ability to produce documents and reports and present to a variety of stakeholders, with ability to coordinate groups of stakeholders to agree requirements.
  • Programme management skills, to ensure deliverables are provided within time, cost and quality criteria.
  • Lead and coach a team to develop to its full potential.
  • Assess claims for loss (crop loss, reinstatement, etc).
  • Ability to compile and analyse data using Excel (or equivalent), GIS and database reporting tools.
  • Manage external suppliers including setting clear deliverables and KPIs.
  • Develop effective relationships and deliver complex projects to agreed timescales, Knowledge:
  • Understanding of land powers available through the differing legislative procedures underpinning infrastructure schemes (e.g., Hybrid Bill, Transport & Works Act Order, Development Consent Order, Compulsory Purchase Order)
  • Understanding of compulsory purchase powers including relevant statutes and precedents / established practices.
  • Understanding of land and property ownership and occupation rights.
  • Understanding of legal agreements to enable entry to land for survey purposes. • Professional membership of relevant institution (RICS, CAAV, RTPI, APM, etc) Type of experience:
  • Experience of engaging with landowners over access for infrastructure schemes.
  • Experience in management of infrastructure and construction programmes.
  • Managing financial budgets effectively and delivering against these to set parameters and targets

We operate broad pay scales for all our roles to enable us to fulfil our commitments to inclusivity and career development. Final package is dependent on individual knowledge, skills and experience. In addition, we offer a range of competitive benefits - check them out in the Benefits section on our website.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential. In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

It is expected that you will actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

We ask for a variety of detail in your online application, however we perform the first assessment of suitability for a role based solely on the information in your CV. Please attach an updated word version of your CV for each new application and include evidence directly related to the criteria in the job advert.

About Us:

High Speed 2 (HS2 Ltd) will be the UK’s new high speed rail network. As well as improving capacity, the new scheme will shorten journey times between a number of Britain’s major population centres, boost the economy and create thousands of jobs. 

HS2 Ltd will create a skills legacy and develop a diverse range of talent. We aim to be a leader in EDI practice by creating a safe & inclusive working environment for all our staff - living our values of Safety, Respect, Integrity and Leadership.

In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities. 

HS2 Ltd is also a safety-critical organisation. Employees are required to ensure reasonable care of their own and others’ health and safety by taking personal responsibility for working to our ‘Safe at Heart’ programme principles and following safe working procedures at all times.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential. 

To apply for this role, please visit our website.

Closing date: 12 November 2021.

To apply for this role, please click the 'apply' button today.

Company

Let’s add value that lasts

With 240 sites now active along the route between London and the West Midlands, employing over 13,000 people with tens of thousands more jobs supported through the supply chain, the size and scale of HS2 means that there are fantastic career development opportunities and we invest in our people to encourage their personal development and we’re looking for more talented people to join us.

HS2 is a unique opportunity. With the expert input of our procurement, commercial and contract professionals, this high-speed railway will change the future of the country.

An estimated 400,000 supply chain contract opportunities for UK businesses will be created during Phase One of HS2, supporting thousands of jobs on site and many more around the country. It is estimated that around 95% of those contract opportunities will be won by UK based businesses and around two thirds of those will be small and medium sized businesses.

Our close-knit teams of passionate professionals are working on once-in-a-generation projects and setting new benchmarks for sustainable, high value commercial practice, for example in November, we released £12 billion worth of supply chain contracts to be let over the next 18 months and held a 4-day virtual event to showcase the opportunities available and advise businesses on how to get ‘contract ready’.  It was the first time we’d held the event in a virtual setting and moving to an online setting was driven by the pandemic.

The event was a huge success, with over 6,200 seats filled at 24 webinars and over 800 1-to-1 meetings delivered between our contractors and new, potential suppliers.  The supply chain demand is certainly out there and British businesses are eager to get on board and benefit from the estimated 400,000 supply chain contracts available.

These teams will help change the future of the country, leaving a legacy of economic and commercial prosperity – join us, and together our ideas will go further.

Here from Bal, one of our Commercial Managers at HS2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_Bjh_Uu0uM&list=PLQHXGU97P0FK4GMMrbzcq9Sw8RYzsKNt6&index=4

We’re looking for experienced, enterprising people to lead commercial activities and manage consultant and contractor relationships on Phase Two route development. This will involve making sure your team of Commercial and Contract Managers are delivering value for money and that fair and effective commercial management processes are implemented and maintained during the entire project.

The size and scale of HS2 offers a broad range of career opportunities. Applicants who may not have traditionally considered a career in the construction and rail engineering sectors are encouraged to sign up to HS2’s Talent Pools for a skills match assessment. Where there is a skills match, which takes account of essential and transferrable skills, applicants will be invited to apply for roles.

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