Estates Surveyor, South Hub

We're fully committed to being an inclusive employer and ensuring equal opportunities for everyone. We welcome flexible working patterns, including job share.

If you're part of the Environment Agency, you're part of the solution. Working with us means protecting and improving the environment and tackling issues of national importance. We're based across England, and our responsibilities span industry regulation, flood defences, land contamination, water quality, fisheries and conservation.

Such broad scope of work calls for diverse, multi-skilled teams. Together, we'll promote sustainable growth, tackle climate change and secure a better future for everyone.

As an Estates Surveyor, you'll be involved in a wide variety of surveying work, providing professional property expertise across all aspects of our business. As the property specialist, you'll work collaboratively within project teams helping to deliver a nationwide £5.4 billion programme of capital flood defence work that will protect 336,000 properties. You'll be involved at all stages of project delivery from feasibility through to completion. Your expertise will be applied to the management of a diverse land and property portfolio, including commercial and rural property management, valuation and dealing with landlord and tenant issues.

As a confident negotiator, you'll represent our interests with a broad customer and client base. With an up-to-date knowledge of current legislation and best practice, you'll provide strong technical guidance and support to other members of your team. We'll also support you to develop both personally and professionally.

Responding to incidents is a central part of what we do. Everyone that joins us is required to undertake training and participate. Please see the candidate pack for more on how you will support with this.
The team 1
The Estates service extends to 125 people, offering professional support for Environment Agency land, property, compensation and valuation matters. We are core to the delivery of the Agency's £5.2 billion capital programme to better protect 336,000 homes. Our experienced teams specialise in negotiating access, dealing with compensation claims from land/property owners where they have suffered loss as a consequence of our work., Please note, you will be required to travel across the south-east of the country to carry out surveying work, this may include overnight stays. A full UK driving licence is essential to travel to these sites and offices across our hubs, some of which are inaccessible by public transport. You'll be provided with a vehicle to carry out this work if required.

• you'll be a fellow of the CAAV (FAAV)


• qualified as a chartered surveyor (MRICS/FRICS) ideally in Land and Resources, Commercial or Rural. However, we would consider other pathways, if you feel the pathway you have followed would be suitable for this role. Please note. We will accept your application if you have submitted your APC and expect to pass within the next three months.



• full and valid driving licence


• experience of estate management, acquisition and disposal work in the urban and/or rural environment and experience within land rights acquisition


• be able to demonstrate that you can draw on your knowledge and experience to advise on a range of property matter and projects