Graduate Surveyor - Transport Planning

This is a Graduate Surveyor / Property role within the transport infrastructure sector (rail, stations, commercial spaces).

About us:

Our Planning, Regeneration and Infrastructure team comprises over 100 specialist town planners and surveyors, development consultants, urban designers & master planners, town centre regeneration experts, economists, compulsory purchase order (CPO) / land assembly advisers, transport & infrastructure specialists, and dedicated public sector consultants.

Our roads, rail and air space are the backbone of the country’s economy. Benefitting from ingrained knowledge of the UK’s transport and infrastructure network, we support our clients through fully integrated property solutions.

The UK transport sector has its own unique regulatory, operational, funding, and safety issues; alongside client specific commercial, customer, and performance objectives. We have a dedicated team focussing solely on property issues in this sector, combined with years of sector specific expertise and insight, unrivalled local market knowledge and long-standing stakeholder relationships.

We currently manage retail and other commercial space at Manchester Victoria station which accommodates major national operators including WH Smith, Greggs, Starbucks and Costa, as well as a number of local independent businesses.

In addition, we also manage the wider property asset which includes identifying new business space, marketing the opportunity, agreeing terms, and, in conjunction with the client’s solicitor, seeing the transaction through the legal process resulting in generating additional revenue and enhancing the customer experience.

The Position:

The Lambert Smith Hampton Leeds office provides a full range of property services. We are able to offer a lively, dynamic, and fulfilling working environment.

The Leeds Transport team fits within our Planning, Regeneration + Infrastructure service and is currently looking for either a RICS accredited graduate looking to enrol on their APC journey, or a current graduate surveyor in the early stages of their career.

This role would be suitable and appropriate for:

• A graduate with a RICS accredited degree interested in the transport sector.

• A graduate currently pursuing their APC

Your attributes:

• Problem solving and analytical skills;

• Good communicator;

• Well organised and disciplined;

• Details and accuracy orientated;

• Able to engage and negotiate with a diverse range of people;

• Flexible, creative with the ability to come up with imaginative solutions to problems.

We understand the value that a diverse and inclusive working environment brings to Lambert Smith Hampton. We celebrate the different perspectives and insights that people can bring through their cultures and backgrounds. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or any other protected characteristic.