Senior Associate (Infrastructure)

The Team & Focus of the Role

We have an extremely exciting opportunity to come and join our Infrastructure Services division. The division assists in delivering projects to build a more sustainable and long-

lasting Infrastructure for the UK on behalf of clients across of a range of different sectors including electricity, gas, water, fibre optics, oil, and renewables.

We pride ourselves on understanding our clients’ specific requirements and industry developments, as well as maintaining and developing our professional team and continuing

the development of our systems to assist in high quality service delivery. The role will be varied, including project managing from routing, through to construction and completion, and

providing consultancy services associated with benchmarking, procedures, and management systems.

We are working on some of the largest and most significant Nationally Significant Infrastructure projects in the UK alongside the delivery of multiple framework contracts for

clients across the Electricity, Gas, Water and Renewable Energy sectors.

Our Bury St Edmunds team is going through a period of rapid growth and consists of 15 team members responsible for delivering an exceptional level of service delivery to our

clients. We will shortly be expanding into additional office space and will welcome dynamic hard working team players to support our future aspirations.

Based in Bury St Edmunds, this is a permanent full-time position based on 37.5-hours

(Monday – Friday) however we’re fully open to discussing part-time part and flexible working

requirements (minimum 30 hours per week). We are open to speaking to individuals from a

broad range of surveying backgrounds & we also operate a hybrid working policy.

In return, beyond your base salary you will be included in:

• A discretionary bonus scheme
• Company car/car allowance
• A generous holiday scheme which commences at 25 days with a sliding scale up to 30 days plus your birthday off and two extra half days allocated for Christmas Eve &
• New Years Eve
• Private Healthcare
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave
• An online money saving portal and access to a 24/7 mental health & wellbeing service.
• Volunteering Leave equating to 2 days per year (pro rata if you’re part-time)

Duties will include:

• Advising on and managing infrastructure projects from a local to national scale
• Providing land consultancy advice to clients for different work types, such as maintenance of existing apparatus or installation of new equipment
• Advising clients on all aspects of their interactions with landowners, providing professional support
• Involvement in land referencing, preparation and service of statutory notices, negotiation of compensation and acquisitions of rights to facilitate projects
• Liaising with landowners and dealing with public enquiries
• Supporting on wider projects across the business
• Reporting directly to clients on progression with projects
• Supporting the training and mentoring of our graduates in the team to help them achieve their goals

The successful candidate will have…

• MRICS or AssocRICS qualifications (preferably)
• Strong project management skills
• Excellent IT skills
• Exceptional interpersonal skills with the confidence to communicate and negotiate effectively at all levels
• The ability to self-manage in order to meet deadlines
• Experience in building strong, lasting relationships, networking and promoting the business
• Excellent people skills with the ability to influence decisions
• Outstanding prioritisation and organisational skills
• Excellent attention to detail
• Great verbal and written communication