Role Overview
Are you an experienced and versatile Chartered Surveyor looking for a unique leadership opportunity where your work supports cleaner rivers, protects communities, and delivers long‑term environmental change?
Is Welsh a plus, although not essential.
Ready for a new challenge that combines commercial negotiation, public interest, and complex legacy land issues across England and Wales?
Enjoy working as part of a collaborative, supportive team where you can make a real impact while continuing to develop your skills?
If so, we’d love to hear from you.
Key Responsibilities
You’ll lead on the acquisition of land (through purchase, lease or licence) and its subsequent management to support the Welsh Metal Mines Programme. You’ll provide professional property and land advice that enables the delivery of mine water treatment schemes and wider environmental interventions.
- Work collaboratively with internal teams and external partners
- Contribute to the wider Metal Mines Property Team
- Help manage risks and support the delivery of a complex, high‑profile programme
- Play a key role in enabling projects that protect the environment and local communities
Qualifications & Experience
- Chartered Surveyor expertise – experience in land acquisition, property strategy, and complex site negotiations
- Leadership and collaboration – able to lead, support colleagues, and work effectively across teams
- Programme delivery – experience securing and managing land interests for infrastructure, environmental or similar projects
- Stakeholder management – confident working with a wide range of stakeholders and navigating complex relationships
- Organisation and attention to detail – able to manage a varied, sometimes high‑volume workload
- Commercial awareness – understanding of funding, cost recovery and value for money in public or commercial settings
Role Location
This is a hybrid role involving regular travel to sites across the Welsh Metal Mines. While being based in Wales would be an advantage, we welcome applications from candidates based elsewhere, as long as they can reasonably travel to site locations and our Mansfield office.
Benefits
- A cutting‑edge pension scheme with an employer contribution rate of approximately 28.97 %
- Recognition scheme that celebrates your contributions
- Flexibility in working patterns, whether full‑time, part‑time or compressed hours
- Flexibility in working arrangements tailored to your needs
- 27.5 days annual leave plus the flexibility to add 6 extra days, plus 8 public holidays
- Comprehensive parental leave policy with 26 weeks of full pay (subject to eligibility)
- Support for professional qualifications and one annual professional subscription payment
- Access to a free, confidential Employee Assistance Programme
- Exclusive employee discounts
- Annual health check and £15 monthly towards well‑being activities
- On‑site free parking and complimentary tea, coffee and soft drinks at our Mansfield office
Flexible Working
We offer different ways to work flexibly, including job share, flexible hours, working from home part of the week and compressed hours. Please feel free to discuss what flexibility means to you in your interview.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
We’re proud to be an inclusive employer and are committed to building a workforce that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds and identities and actively promote equality of opportunity throughout our recruitment process. As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we offer a guaranteed interview to applicants who meet the minimum selection criteria and identify as disabled or from a minority ethnic background. We recruit based on skills, experience and potential, not on ethnicity, background, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other protected characteristic. To help ensure fairness, we anonymise applications by asking candidates to remove personally identifiable information before they are reviewed.
Contact Information
If you require reasonable adjustments or an alternative format to apply, please contact us at Recruitment@MiningRemediation.gov.uk or call us on 01623 637000.
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