Land Specialist - Manchester, United Kingdom - Freedom Fibre

Freedom Fibre
Freedom Fibre
Verified Company
Manchester, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Tom O´Connor

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The Role


The Land Specialist is the go-to person within the company who can act on Freedom Fibres 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.
  • 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 consentrelated 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 fieldbased 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.
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