About us
HVSS, founded in 2010, are a privately owned company with an outstanding reputation amongst clients and the wider utilities industry and continue to see substantial growth year on year. With offices located around the UK, we provide an innovative approach to our clients nationally. We offer services ranging from private high voltage connections and maintenance to multi-utility connections across the Electricity, Gas, Telecoms, Water and EV Charging markets. We strive to be market leaders and are looking for motivated individuals to join us on our journey and to be part of our bright future.
The Role
The purpose of the role is to provide support to the Design and Construction teams by handling administrative tasks related to land rights. This role involves maintaining records, coordinating meetings, and assisting with documentation and communication with relevant stakeholders, to help provide a smooth legal process.
Our Engineering Support Officers assist the Sales & Tendering, Design and Construction teams by undertaking general administrative tasks and provide simple CAD drawing assistance associated with the legal agreements required on our projects.
Generally, the tasks will be clerical or of low technical input and ultimate responsibility will lie with the Design Engineers and Regional/Project Managers or other functional managers allocating the work. Full training will be provided on all aspects of the role.
Each individual ESO will be tasked with a selection of duties from the range below, although you will develop an understanding of all tasks over time, as your experience increases. Once an underlying understanding of HVSS and the wider utility industry has been achieved, there may be opportunities to progress within the business.
Key Responsibilities
· Liaison with landowners' legal teams, external legal facilitators and network's legal teams
· Complete standard land registry and highway adoption searches
· Complete the legals assessment for required projects
· Create legal plans on AutoCAD
· Providing management reports and monitoring of performance with respect to project and programme legal progress and performance
· Support internal hand over meetings by confirming land rights / legal requirements
· Liaise with and monitor costs of legal facilitators by project and programme of work
· Respond to enquiries and chase correspondence between all parties and provide regular updates as required by all
· Support data management for internal and external reporting
· Liaise with and gather information from external field-based operations to ensure systems are updated
· Update and maintain key company databases
· Proactively escalate problems to the Senior members of the team
· Work within guidance of the company policies and procedures
· Maintain a record of CPD to enable learning and progression
· Any duties deemed necessary by your Line Manager
Experience & Qualities
Essential:
· Experience working in an office environment
· Accuracy of work and attention to detail
· Be methodical in work approaches
· Professional, helpful, can-do attitude and ability to work under pressure
· Good communication skills both verbal and written
· General computer literacy with the ability to use Microsoft Office applications
Desirable:
· Working knowledge of the utility industry
· Knowledge and experience in Land Rights
· Experience with using Google Sheets
· Previous knowledge of 2D CAD drawings – although full training will be given
· Ability to prioritise work activity to deliver business requirements
· Work flexibly either under supervision or on own initiative as required
Job Types: Full-time, Fixed term contract
Pay: £26,000.00-£28,000.00 per year
Benefits:
* Casual dress
* Company events
* Company pension
* Cycle to work scheme
* Flexitime
* Free parking
* On-site parking
* Private medical insurance
Licence/Certification:
* Driving Licence (required)
Work authorisation:
* United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: In person
Application deadline: 22/09/2025
Reference ID: ESO - 3