Rural Surveyor

Role Overview

An opening has arisen for a Rural Surveyor to support an expanding and busy Estate Management team. The team provides core management and consultancy services in the rural, agricultural and residential sectors across Scotland. With a unique and varied workload, the role requires someone proactive and who wishes to make a difference to the team. The team are involved in a wide variety of work across Scotland including land management, natural capital, leisure and tourism, landlord & tenant, farm and estate strategic reviews and renewables. We are committed to taking on the right person who is aspirational and wants to develop their career to the next level providing advice to clients on a number of land management aspects.

Key Responsibilities

• Delivery of management services for farms and estates
• Consultancy advice, including strategic reviews rural businesses
• Involvement in natural capital, diversification, compulsory purchase and other specialist areas
• Landlord & Tenant: lease negotiations, rent reviews, lease renewals, negotiated lease renunciations
• Compulsory Purchase and Utility work: experience dealing with claims and processes arising from utility works

Key Skills

•MRICS, FAAV
•Experience of land management operations at a day-to-day level
•A team player
•Focussed on delivering results
•Proactive and problem solving attitude
•Organised and driven 

Team Overview

The Rural Management department in Perth is a fast-paced department made up of 3 Directors, 1 Associate Director, 4 surveyors including graduates, and 1 Senior administrator within a multi-disciplined office of 60 staff. Our Perth management team work with private landowners and farmers, as well as larger institutional clients such as charities, local authorities and government agencies on all aspects of rural land agency. Working from the Perth office allows the candidate to cover a wide geographic area and to work in varying land types and within a diverse and dynamic office which includes colleagues from Savills Earth, Food and Farming, Forestry, Planning, Professional and ABS teams. Due to the varying land types and clients it provides for a varied and enjoyable role covering many aspects of land management. Savills culture is one of trust and respect, teamwork and collaboration. Our teams and our clients benefit when we work together, listening to and learning from each other. Above all, we value the motivation of our people. This is evidenced by our wellbeing offer, our capability to facilitate flexible working and our support to enjoy a healthy work life balance.

The Perth office has a reputation for having a particularly collegiate and flat structure and departments work very closely together with both large and small projects. With over 600 rural staff working across 30 UK offices, Savills can claim one of the largest rural teams in the UK. The Rural & Projects team and the region is very well supported by a wide knowledge base, resources and research within the national and international Savills network. Savills are market leaders in our training schemes with continued career development and training to further develop personal and business knowledge. Additional to the fantastic training opportunities, there will also be opportunities to be part of national committees regarding business development and future development.

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