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jf_land_property::E4
Chief Land Officer
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Chief Land Officer

industrial_energy_operationsLand / Property · E4 — E4 — Senior Vice President · Executive

The most senior executive accountable for all land, property, and rights-of-way strategy across the organization's energy or mining assets.

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$389,207 USD

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$285,897$529,849

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pay@2 · 2026-07

What this role is

The most senior executive accountable for all land, property, and rights-of-way strategy across the organization's energy or mining assets. At the Senior Vice President (E4) level, the role owns multiple divisions, enterprise strategy and external stakeholders, and drives cross-division / enterprise. Leads division leaders.

What this level does

  • Oversees the full land/property portfolio across multiple strategic areas with high autonomy and corporate impact, integrating land-rights strategy into enterprise capital and development planning
  • Participates in enterprise strategic development — positioning the land and real-property estate as a strategic asset in decisions on generation mix, transmission expansion and renewable siting
  • Engages regularly with the board, CEO and industry leaders on land-acquisition risk, condemnation exposure and the property foundations of the enterprise's growth agenda
  • Directs cross-business land-rights, siting and regulatory strategy with broad organizational reach, aligning the property function to corporate objectives
  • Holds ultimate accountability for the enterprise's aggregate land, easement and right-of-way risk and the compliance framework governing it
Knowledge applied
Participates in enterprise strategic development, positioning the land and property estate as a strategic asset across multiple strategic areas.
Complexity & problem solving
Operates with high autonomy and corporate impact on cross-business land, siting and risk strategy.
Collaboration & interaction
Regular board, CEO and industry-leader engagement; broad organizational reach across business and functional lines.
Typical experience
20+ years of extensive corporate strategy and executive leadership, including large land/property portfolios.

Skills at this level

Land-rights portfolio strategy
Sets and governs acquisition and management strategy for right-of-way, easements and land rights across a project portfolio, broadening the function from acquiring individual rights to owning end-to-end project outcomes and land-use direction.
Property law and land-rights governance
Directs the function's application of property law, land rights, permits, licenses, easements, legal contracts and real-estate/environmental regulations affecting building plans, setting standards that keep acquisitions defensible.
High-stakes acquisition negotiation
Leads negotiation and persuasion with major property owners, coalitions and public bodies on high-value or contentious land acquisitions, reaching agreements that satisfy all parties while protecting cost and schedule.
Damage-settlement and dispute risk governance
Sets authority thresholds and escalation frameworks for evaluating claims, negotiating damage settlements and resolving property-rights disputes, governing the function's aggregate settlement and litigation exposure.
Siting and site-suitability strategy
Steers where the enterprise pursues solar, wind and infrastructure development by directing site-suitability analysis that weighs land use, climate conditions and grid connectivity against acquisition feasibility.
Title and property-records integrity oversight
Establishes standards for title research and property ownership verification using online GIS, courthouse research and digital title tools so clean ownership is confirmed before construction commitments.
Regulatory compliance leadership
Owns adherence to federal, state and local property, environmental and public-safety regulations across the land function, holding accountability for compliance gaps that stall or expose projects.
Cross-functional project-delivery coordination
Integrates the land function with surveyors, engineers, appraisal, relocation and project-development teams to identify and secure the parcels required to deliver infrastructure programs.
Executive and board engagement
Represents the land/property function to other executives, the board, CEO, regulators and industry leaders on land-risk, condemnation exposure and the property foundations of the enterprise growth agenda.
Land-asset value optimization
Directs large-portfolio strategy that maximizes the value of company land and property assets while advising on land use and supporting infrastructure delivery that strengthens communities.

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