Brooks Leney: Head of Infrastructure & Utilities Surveyor
Role: | Head of Infrastructure & Utilities Surveyor (Landowner-Focused Role) |
Salary: | Competitive Salary |
Where: | Based at Brooks Leney’s offices Ipswich or Bury St Edmunds Travel required across the region and occasionally nationally. Flexible working arrangements considered. |
Brooks Leney:
An opportunity to shape your role, your career, and the future of a forward-thinking rural practice
Brooks Leney is looking for an experienced Infrastructure and Utilities Surveyor to lead and develop our specialist landowner-facing work. This is a senior role for someone who wants autonomy, influence, and the chance to build something long term within a well established rural consultancy.
We act for landowners and occupiers with a clear focus on delivering clear, practical advice and developing long-term relationships built on trust. You will lead and grow our specialist work supporting landowners and occupiers affected by infrastructure and utility schemes.
You will be based within our Suffolk team, working across East Anglia as part of a modern, supportive practice that values professionalism, collaboration, and sustainable growth. The role offers scope to shape how the service develops and how your own career progresses.
The successful candidate will combine deep technical expertise with strong leadership capability, ensuring Brooks Leney continues to be recognised as a trusted adviser to landowners navigating complex infrastructure and utility matters. You will be encouraged to develop your own client base as well as serve existing clients.
The ideal candidate will be confident, resilient, detail-focused and an excellent communicator who enjoys working collaboratively as part of a tight-knit team.
We offer a competitive remuneration package, excellent career prospects, and a positive, enjoyable working environment with a diverse and loyal client base.
If you are ready a senior role with a firm that values initiative, ambition and teamwork, we would be delighted to hear from you.
Why Join Brooks Leney?:
- Opportunity to lead and shape a growing specialist service area focused on landowner advocacy.
- Work within a respected, independent Chartered Surveyors, Land Agents, Farm Business Advisers and Estate Agents business, with long term prospects for the right candidate.
- Supportive culture with genuine autonomy and career progression.
- Diverse and interesting workload across land, property, and infrastructure sectors
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the Infrastructure & Utilities discipline with a clear focus on landowner and occupier representation.
- Develop and implement growth strategies to expand our landowner and occupier client base and infrastructure work.
- Oversee and deliver complex instructions for landowners and occupiers relating to:
- Compulsory purchase and compensation claims
- Negotiation of easements, wayleaves and access rights
- Land acquisition requests from statutory undertakers
- Infrastructure routing impacts, mitigation and valuation
- Rights of way, accommodation works and reinstatement matters
- Provide strategic advice to landowners on protecting their interests, minimising disruption, and maximising compensation.
- Act as the senior point of contact for landowners, estates, farms, rural businesses and occupiers
- Build long-term relationships through proactive communication and high-quality delivery of advice.
- Prepare and present clear, practical advice to clients facing infrastructure proposals or utility interventions.
- Manage and mentor an existing team of surveyors and support staff.
- Contribute to wider business growth, planning and cross-team collaboration
Skills & Experience Required:
Essential:
- Proven track record advising parties on infrastructure, utilities, compulsory purchase, or rural land rights.
- Strong understanding of relevant legislation, including CPO processes, utility codes, and land compensation law.
- Demonstrable leadership experience with the ability to inspire and manage a team.
- Excellent negotiation, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Commercial awareness and experience in developing new landowner-focused workstreams.
- Understanding of rural land management and agricultural practice
Desirable, but not essential:
- Chartered Surveyor (MRICS, FRICS or FAAV) with relevant post-qualification experience.
- Experience supporting landowners affected by major infrastructure schemes (energy, water, telecoms, transport).
- Expert witness experience or willingness to undertake such work.
Personal Attributes:
Further Information:
- Strategic thinker with a proactive, solutions-driven mindset.
- Confident decision-maker with strong professional judgement.
- Collaborative, approachable, and committed to high standards of service.
- Ability to balance commercial priorities with client care and technical excellence.
Core Benefits:
- A competitive salary, based on experience.
- A holiday scheme which increases by one day per year for each year's service up to a maximum of 33 days (including Bank Holidays).
- Enhanced holiday entitlements for long service after five and ten years.
- Life Assurance Scheme
- Income Protection Scheme
- Professional Development Support (CPD)
- Access to Business Mentor / Personal Coach
- Professional Subscriptions Paid
Further Information:
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For a confidential discussion or to express interest, please contact Chris Leney: