Agricultural Liaison Officer - Birmingham, United Kingdom - Mott MacDonald

Mott MacDonald

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Birmingham, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Do you want to work for a company whose purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes, and to transform businesses, communities, and opportunities for its employees? Mott MacDonald is a global consultancy whose people do exactly that.

As Agricultural Liaison Officer - the focus of this exciting new role and opportunity is to help build the growing business and to manage the delivery of detailed, high quality Land Advisory services for our clients.

About the division

The Advisory and Programme Delivery division delivers services to projects ranging in scale and complexity from £million's to £20bn, through the Technical disciplines of Land Advisory, Programme Management, Project Management, Project Controls, Scheduling, Cost Management, Estimating, Infrastructure Finance, Management Consulting, Digital Consulting, Education and Healthcare Management.

Our Infrastructure portfolio is primarily a UK based business working in four key sectors of Rail, Highways, Land and Aviation.

while supporting other parts of the infrastructure advisory business across the globe.

What is our vision?

Our vision, with your help, is to deliver major infrastructure projects as part of a global business and to establish our wide-ranging consultancy as credible and preferred for our existing and new clients and supporting other parts of the infrastructure business across the globe.

Our vision is to deliver major infrastructure projects as part of a global business and to establish our wide-ranging consultancy as 'credible' and 'preferred' for our existing and new clients.

Mott MacDonald is an equal opportunities company.

What you will contribute to the team:

Liaise with third party stakeholders regarding land and land drainage matters, e.g., Internal Drainage Board, Environment Agency, landowners, tenant farmers
Ensure farming activities are considered and communicated to delivery teams during construction works.
Carry out and organise with project team preentry photographic records of condition of the affected land including identification of existing drainage issues
Follow up on requests from landowners for existing land drainage drawings to assist with new project drainage design
Discuss, agree and document accommodation works with landowners e.g., water troughs for stock, irrigation pipework, fencing etc.
Assist the project team in discussions with Internal Drainage Board about flume pipe crossing points, including installation maintenance and removal
Experience or understanding in drainage design and installation and ability to advise project team and thirdparty drainage designers
Experience or understanding of good soil management
Inform landowners about construction matters and project requirements
Experience in reading construction drawings
Assist the construction team in all matters regarding land access
Assist the project team with boundary removal and reinstatement
Ensure land drainage subcontractors workmanship conform to industry standards and specifications

Required for the position of Agricultural Liaison Officer:

Is an excellent communicator who can build strong relationships with the project teams and external stakeholders (including farmers and local residents)
Work collaboratively with the project team to help deliver the best solution
Flexibility on travelling
A cando attitude and enthusiasm to innovate and get the job done
Can demonstrate experience of being part of largescale infrastructure programmes of work
Experience and/or understanding of dealing with soils and drainage in challenging terrain and conditions is desirable but not essential

If you meet 80% or more of what we're looking for, please still apply. We understand not everyone will meet all the requirements, but you might have skills we didn't know we need.

Job Profile

About the business unit

The Advisory and Programme Delivery (APD) unit delivers management services in all the sectors that Mott MacDonald operate in the Built Environment, Defence, Energy, Water, Transportation and, Education, Health and Care.

The Unit delivers services to projects ranging in scale and complexity up to £20bn, through the technical disciplines of Programme Management, Project Management, Project Controls, Scheduling, Cost Management, Estimating, Infrastructure Finance, Management Consulting, Digital Consulting and Education, Health and Care Management.

How to apply

Mott MacDonald is Work180 accredited - which means we actively support and encourage women to join our work force

Benefits we offer:

Pension matched up to 7%
Life insurance
An annual professional institution subscription
Continuous development opportunities because we want you to thrive
Agile/flexible working because life isn't 9
Enhanced parental leave; shared parental leave policies for parents and care givers
Annual company performance bonus scheme
Subject to company performance
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