2025 Graduate Programme (UK) - Land Consultant

WSP; Belfast; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job description

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At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.

A little bit more about your role and the team …

As Graduate Land Consultant based in our Belfast office, you will be directly supporting the WSP Land team in the identification of landowners, occupiers and other parties that hold a legal interest in land, through interpretation Land Registry titles and interviews with landowners and other land interests. You will also support the delivery of landowner engagement, survey access agreements and public consultation through all stages of infrastructure development from scheme introduction through to the consenting stages / statutory processes.

As part of the WSP Land Team you will be contributing to the success of high-profile infrastructure projects within Ireland and the wider UK business. You will be supporting projects on a variety of projects across the Energy, Water, Road, Rail and Local Authority sectors.

• You will be part of our WSP team based in our modern Belfast Waterfront Office, which is made up of land consultants, Highways engineers, environmental and planning specialists and water engineers.
• We work closely with our 250 Land colleagues across the UK and Ireland.
• We are the largest Land Referencing business in the UK and Ireland, having supported high profile projects such as the A5, North South Interconnector, NM20, A4 Dualling and Magherafelt Bypass as well as HS2.
• We support infrastructure projects that are critical for the deployment of renewable energy, to help the UK and Ireland economies to achieve net zero carbon emissions.
• We actively support people in achieving professional accreditations and have Chartered Geographers (CGeog), Chartered Town Planners (RTPI) and Chartered Surveyors (MRICS) who can support your career progression.
• This role will report to a Consultant / Senior Land Consultant.
• Full training will be provided combined with learning on-the-job as part of our projects.
• We are flexible with the role location and can combine this with home working in a hybrid role.

Graduate Development Programme

Our Graduates told us the best part of being on the Graduate Development Programme is the support for their own personal development and large network available to them.

They also said they had the chance to work on a wide variety of projects enabling them to work closely with other disciplines, allowing them to gain a better understanding of their role on projects and how this enhances the schemes they are involved in. As well as the large pool of experts to guide them throughout their journey.

We have established relationships with professional institutions including but not all ICE, IStructE, IET, CIBSE, CIHT, CILT, IMechE, IChemE, CIWEM, RICS, RTPI, SocEnv & APM. You will have the opportunity to select a technical mentor to help you on your journey, and to reward you for your efforts, (when you reach certain professional milestones, you’ll even get a bonus as a thank you and well done for your hard work). We are also able to support professional development with many other approved professional institutions that may not be included in this list.

Our 2-year Graduate Programme is designed to support personal career development and growth through a blended learning experience. The programme includes core business skills and career focused training, networking opportunities, professional registration mentoring and on-the-job experience. The development programme consists of four key streams illustrated below:

• 2 day in-person induction
• In person training days
• Technical role specific training
• Curated online content
• On-the-job experience
• Additional resources and activities

We also have a unique Professional Growth Network (PGN), which is a networking group run by early career professionals for ECP’s. It helps to grow your network of contacts across the business as well as providing you with opportunities for extra experience and to support you in achieving chartered status or other professional accreditations.

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA

• You’ll have graduated with at least a 2:2 in a master’s or bachelor’s degree in Geography or another relevant discipline such as Planning, Environmental, or Agriculture related degree which has provided you with an understanding of land-use and/or land ownership.
• You will be ideally looking to start in our April intake.
• Demonstrable experience of desktop researching so that you can apply your skills to the process of identifying landowners/occupiers, land interests and rights in land.
• Flexibility to travel to site as and when projects dictate, as there may a need to meet with landowners and stakeholders. Therefore, periods staying away from home may be required (travel and accommodation expenses paid by WSP).
• An enthusiasm for creativity and a drive to solve problems.
• You’ll want to inspire us, sharing new ideas you have.
• Comfortable with technical map reading.
• Good team player with ability to work well with colleagues, clients, landowners and the general public.

Please be aware behavioural assessment results at WSP are valid for a period of 12 months; if you have completed an assessment within this timeframe and been unsuccessful, we will not be able to consider your application.

How long does the process take?

You'll receive an email acknowledging receipt of your application within 5 days of submission. After reviewing your application, if we feel your background and skills are suitable, you will be sent through to the second stage in the process which is an online behavioural assessment. To learn more about the assessment please visit Support For Candidates | Arctic Shores.

If you are successful after completing the assessment, we will then start to complete our final shortlisting before liaising with our Hiring teams.

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