Company Description
United Living is a leading infrastructure, construction, and property services company in the UK. We help our customers and the communities they serve benefit from resilient infrastructure, affordable homes, and improved living spaces that are fit for the future. Our mission is to be the partner and employer of choice for designing, building, maintaining, and connecting communities and critical infrastructure, to create a more sustainable and inclusive society.
United Living Group is comprised of four complementary businesses, all dedicated to realising our vision of creating a connected, sustainable future:
Property Services – We revitalise homes and communities through the regeneration of living spaces, breathing new life into neighbourhoods. From delivering large programmes of work for social housing providers, to ensuring the highest building safety standards, we provide a range of services for public sector clients.
Infrastructure Services – Our team of infrastructure specialists design, build and maintain critical energy and water infrastructure, for the UK’s largest network owners and operators. The work we do supports the requirement for effective solutions to address the UK’s decarbonisation goals, and our processes minimise environmental and carbon impacts, whilst ensuring the safe and reliable operation of assets.
New Homes - As experienced and specialist new build housing contractors, we create homes and regenerate areas with communities in mind. We work collaboratively with registered partners, local authorities, and private developers to provide high quality, energy efficient, and sustainable homes for people to live and grow.
Connected - We connect people through fixed-line and wireless telecom infrastructure, ensuring seamless communication and access to information for all. At United Living, we have one of the largest specialist in-house teams for project management, acquisition, design, construction, and maintenance in the UK.
Job Description
United Living Connected are searching for an enthusiastic and hard-working individual to join our team as an Acquisition Surveyor. The successful applicant will work closely with other members of the Acquisition & Planning team for the delivery of new telecom/EV sites, NTQ site replacements or upgrades on existing sites.
Specific Responsibilities:
1. New site or NTQ replacement search and identification, including production of option Reports
2. Reading and identification of rights from existing site legal documentation for proposed site upgrades
3. Land ownership checks
4. Attendance of MSV surveys or site visits (where required)
5. Negotiate and secure Customer approval of consensual HoTs
6. Deal with Landlord Agents & other professional representatives
7. Obtain other required third-party consents/wayleaves
8. Instruction and Management of solicitors through to legal agreement
9. Land valuation appraisals
10. Completion of Legal Report Form (detailing the negotiations held and offers made) for any Non-Consensual process (under new ECC legislation)
11. Provision of support for the Non-Consensual process
12. Upkeep of internal accurate site by site records and commentary
13. Attendance on Customer site by site review meetings (where required)
14. Document submission to client systems including Acquisition HOP requirements
Additional Information
Essential Requirements:
15. Experience of working within EV or Telecoms projects
16. Experience of new ECC Agreement or Renewal projects and as a minimum, a working understanding of the non-consensual process
17. Experience or working understanding of Land Valuations
18. A professional working knowledge of the Town and Country Planning System
19. Good IT skills, particularly Word and Excel and able to demonstrate past experience of using Customer project management and workflow tools
20. Excellent Communication and Negotiation skills
21. Be a good problem solver who is proactive and innovative
22. Be able to develop and promote a best-in-class knowledge base and service
23. Right to work in UK and valid UK Driving Licence
Desirable Requirements:
24. Working towards or already a member of RICS