Salary: £44,260 to £49,630

Location: Exeter (Ash House)

Employment type: Permanent

Hours Per Week: 37

Job start date: 11/10/2024

Closing date: 27/10/2024

Job Description

Your new role

Are you a member of the RICS and looking for your next challenge?

Do you thrive when covering a broad range of surveying specialities as part of your role?

Then National Highways have the role for you!

We’re looking for a Senior Estates Surveyor to join our team based in Exeterto deliver estates inputs into property projects, making sure the organisation complies with government property legislation and has an estate of the right size, condition, and location.

As part of the role, you will support the provision of strategic property advice across National Highways offices and operational estate.

This role will be worked on a hybrid basis, with regular travel to our Exeter office.

The successful candidate will need to travel to estates at various points when required.

What you’ll be leading on

• Provide advice on property acquisitions and disposals and on Landlord/Tenant issues to maintain the value and condition of the Estate
• Deal with day-to-day case work on complex/high value property transactions
• Support the Principal Estates Surveyor on the programme and project management for the delivery of complex/high value works
• Manage specific activities of the company’s property supply chain (professional real estate advisors, agents, and solicitors)
• Build and manage strong relationships with project managers and their teams by providing reliable, accurate and professionally-sound property advice

To be successful you’ll need

• Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors with extensive previous experience of estates/property strategy, property acquisitions, disposals and landlord and tenant’s matters
• Evidence of successfully delivering Estates projects to time
• Ability to assimilate and convey complex and challenging information to a variety of audiences
• Exposure to different types of industries and sectors
• Influencing and negotiation skills

Our benefits package

• Our total reward package includes basic salary, the potential for a performance related bonus, and employer pension contributions of up to 10%.
• Annual Leave starting at 26 days (plus Bank Holidays) rising by 1 day each year up to 31 days (plus Bank Holidays)
• Flexible hours and blended working between base location/home
• Life assurance of 4 times annual salary
• Health and wellbeing support, including an Employee Assistance Programme, available 24/7 365 days and network of mental health first aiders. Plus, access to a wellbeing app to enhance your self-care 24/7, Occupational health service and flu vaccines
• A cycle to work scheme for the purchase of a bicycle and equipment for healthy, low carbon travel
• Significant investment in your career development, through learning and development, talent management, coaching, mentoring and on job experience

And we are:

• Family friendly with enhanced maternity leave and pay, paternity leave (15 days), shared parental leave, adoption leave. Plus access to financial support for holiday play schemes and paid special leave (up to 5 days pa), eg for caring responsibilities
• Money friendly with access to a discounts platform including over 3000 discounts for supermarkets, eating out, leisure, holidays. Alongside a financial wellbeing programme
• Community friendly – offering paid leave to volunteer, 3 days basic/year plus an extra 3 days to support the national Covid effort

A bit about us

The National Highways estate is complex, spanning a huge variety of property types, from depots, outstations and control centres through to farmland and houses. Our division is responsible for all manner of property matters for this estate, ranging from acquiring sites and buildings for our occupation all the way through to the disposal of surplus land.

As part of Business Services, we work closely across the business to ensure the estate reflects the current needs of the company and our people.