Wayleave Officer

Location: This role is Remote/Working from home – Ad -Hoc Site visits will be required
Contract: Daily rate depending on experience
Off-Payroll Status (IR35): The Small business exemption applies, and so the status of the assignment sits with the contractor to determine outside or inside IR35 determination.

As a Wayleave Officer, you will be responsible for obtaining all new wayleaves and consents to ensure that we receive legal agreements as early as possible and within agreed timescale. You will deal with all activities and functions needed to manage the wayleave process both administratively and the strategy for process improvement internally and where feasible, through relationships with either landlords or third-party suppliers.
Some of what you will be doing will include:

• Process ownership for applying for, processing and receiving wayleaves or associated consents
• Experience reading maps and dealing with property boundaries
• Working with the business end to end to define best practise and innovative business processes to ensure an optimised wayleave process
• Define, document and monitor adherence to the end to end wayleaves process
• Working closely with the wider team to ensure all wayleaves are identified and applied for expediently
• Ownership of where applicable, validating land or building ownership to ensure minimal issues
• As applicable create relationships with key landlords covering properties in our client’s metro cities in order to improve wayleave processing as the network expands
• Define the tools and repositories for delivering the wayleaves process

 To be successful in this role you’ll need:

• Experience within Fibre/Fixed Line
• Proven track record in being able to successfully operate within a process
• Ability to multitask and work well under pressure in a fast-paced environment and be able to adapt to change in order to drive improvement
• Ability to create, manage and report business metrics on process stages, with recommendations for improvements
• Excellent communication & interpersonal skills