Land Access Lead
Description
As a Land Access Lead at HS2 you will manage resources and processes necessary to secure timely access to land with the consent of landowners (pre-Royal Assent) and within Bill powers (post-Royal Assent) to enable a wide range of survey and fieldwork activities to proceed to programme.
About the role:
Qualifications
About You:
High Speed 2 (HS2) 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 is a safety critical organisation with safety being one of our core values. Employees are required to ensure reasonable care of their own and others' health and safety by taking personal responsibility for working to the HS2 'Safe at Heart' programme principles and following safe working procedures at all times.
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.
As a Land Access Lead at HS2 you will manage resources and processes necessary to secure timely access to land with the consent of landowners (pre-Royal Assent) and within Bill powers (post-Royal Assent) to enable a wide range of survey and fieldwork activities to proceed to programme.
About the role:
- Deliver site access to land for surveys pre and post Royal Assent
- Administer contractor activities to ensure access is secured in accordance with the agreed survey programmes (ecological, utility, heritage and ground investigation assessment); monitor progress and performance and escalate non-performance to line manager
- 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 and secure approval for any modifications from internal and external stakeholders in order to improve the form of agreement
- Oversee and deliver the preparation of 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 Manager
- Manage interface with land agents, and 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.
Qualifications
About You:
- You will have knowledge of property issues arising from access for surveys in both rural and urban locations
- Experience in all aspect of surveying and land assessment
- Negotiation and time management skills
- Stakeholder management skills including the ability to support members of the public in a range of circumstances.
High Speed 2 (HS2) 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 is a safety critical organisation with safety being one of our core values. Employees are required to ensure reasonable care of their own and others' health and safety by taking personal responsibility for working to the HS2 'Safe at Heart' programme principles and following safe working procedures at all times.
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.