Director of Land and Property
industrial_energy_operations › Land / Property · M5 — M5 — Senior Director · Management
Directs the organization's overall land acquisition, leasing, and property management strategy for energy and mining projects.
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$188,371 USD
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What this role is
Directs the organization's overall land acquisition, leasing, and property management strategy for energy and mining projects. At the Senior Director (M5) level, the role owns multiple functions or a large department, org-level trade-offs and investment, and drives multi-function results. Leads directors and managers.
What this level does
- Directs the land/property acquisition function across a division, shaping how land rights are secured for the company's transmission, pipeline and generation build programs and defining acquisition methods and standards
- Leads through department managers to resolve complex, division-wide land-rights issues — contested corridors, portfolio-level condemnation exposure and multi-facility site strategies
- Influences executives and major landowners/agencies on the land-rights positions that gate capital projects, representing the division on critical siting decisions
- Owns the division's land-acquisition budget, workforce plan and long-range acquisition pipeline in support of the capital plan
- Sets governance for land-rights instruments (easements, leases, deeds, licenses), title standards and dispute-resolution policy across the division
- Knowledge applied
- Directs division-wide acquisition methods and standards; defines how land rights are secured across transmission, pipeline and generation programs.
- Complexity & problem solving
- Resolves complex, division-wide land-rights problems and defines methods for contested corridors and portfolio condemnation exposure.
- Collaboration & interaction
- Influences executives, major landowners and agencies on land-rights positions that gate capital projects.
- Typical experience
- 10–12+ years including second-level management and land-acquisition strategy work.
Skills at this level
- Title research and property management
- — Conducts title searches, abstracting and courthouse/GIS ownership research to determine property ownership, and prepares the title paperwork required for acquisitions and eminent-domain cases.
- Land-rights instrument preparation
- — Prepares and administers easements, leases, deeds, licenses and tenant consents that secure land rights for energy facilities, ensuring instruments are legally sound and recordable.
- Land and ROW legal knowledge
- — Applies real-estate law, property law, environmental regulations, permits and eminent-domain/condemnation procedure to govern how right-of-way is acquired and defended.
- Negotiation and persuasion
- — Reaches acquisition agreements that balance landowner interests with project needs, negotiating purchase prices, easement terms and settlements up to and including condemnation while promoting community acceptance.
- Dispute and damage-claim resolution
- — Assesses the legitimacy of encroachments, damage claims and landowner complaints, negotiates settlements at minimal cost to the company, and keeps detailed supporting records.
- Route and site-selection analysis
- — Leads planning of route alternatives, site selection and corridor management for transmission lines, pipelines and generation plants, weighing land availability against engineering and regulatory constraints.
- Cross-functional project coordination
- — Coordinates land acquisition with surveyors, engineers, legal, regulatory and project-management staff to identify parcels and keep the acquisition lifecycle aligned with project schedule.
- Landowner relationship and communication
- — Maintains professional relationships with property owners through outreach, timely responses to inquiries and ongoing communication about project progress and concerns.
- Acquisition portfolio and budget management
- — Plans and controls acquisition cost, timelines and resourcing across parcels, projects or a division, forecasting land-rights spend against the capital plan.
- Right-of-way land-management systems
- — Uses right-of-way and land-management software (e.g., Quorum) and GIS tools to track parcel status, ownership data and land-rights records across acquisition programs.
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