Senior Land Referencer

Join us at the forefront of renewable energy and strategic infrastructure development as a Senior Land Referencer, where you'll play a key leadership role in shaping major projects from concept to delivery.

Working closely with the Deputy Manager, you'll lead critical land referencing activities, including land rights identification, schedule preparation, GIS mapping, and CPO plan production. Beyond technical delivery, you'll influence system improvements, strengthen project governance, manage client and contractor relationships, and engage with a wide range of stakeholders.

As a trusted mentor and subject matter expert, you'll support and develop Referencers while driving project success through the pre-planning phase. This is an exciting opportunity to combine technical excellence, leadership, and strategic thinking to deliver impactful projects that contribute to the UK's renewable energy and infrastructure future.

The role will involve but will not be limited to:

• Providing a high-quality service to Millar & Bryce customers comprising of handling land reference searches.
• Ability to lead and support research within all necessary registers available within the UK that support the land referencing process
• The ability to lead the delivery of accurate land interest information relative to major infrastructure projects and to lead the search and land referencing process.
• Ensure that the quality control criteria are met
• Support strategy and process to enable colleagues to deliver project goals and timelines and that targeted levels are met.
• Processing external/internal requests for information, publications, mapping etc.
• Extracting relative information from appropriate sources (may include site visits to sites across the UK and interviewing owners/occupiers of properties)
• Consistently and accurately lead the production of schedules, books of reference and plans suitable for supporting compulsory purchase and registration
• Supporting the wider Millar & Bryce teams to ensure that performance standards and business objectives are met.

You will be a confident communicator who is driven to deliver results.  You will also be/have:

• Land referencing experience through the Scottish Saisine and land registration
• Optional HM Land Registry experience
• ARCGIS experience including accurate data management
• Ability to administer map set-up within GIS platforms and support teams in the effective use of digital mapping tools
• Excellent administrative, planning and organisational skills
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Experience of providing outstanding customer service
• Capability to build strong collaborative relationships internally and externally
• Ability to multitask and prioritise a varied workload
• Ability to meet demanding timelines
• Support the maintenance of budget accrual reporting