Manager, Land Administration
Liberty
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Joplin • Montana • 🇺🇸 United States
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Responsible for creating and managing departmental O&M and Capital budget. Monitor monthly to ensure that budgets are at or under budget.
- Oversee landowner communications and negotiations, resolve claims and encroachments, and coordinate with regulators, surveyors, engineers, and legal counsel to secure property rights.
- Exercise managerial skills to direct and monitor the timely acquisition of real estate, rights-of-way, easements, leases, and permits for the construction of new facilities required by the Company.
- Manage internal ROW staff and external agents, ensuring workload distribution, performance, safety, and compliance with policies and laws.
- Institute a level of action planning that ensures the efficient administration of land rights, purchased land, easements, and lease agreements, optimizes the coordination of related activities, and results in positive impacts on internal and external customers.
- Maintain accurate databases of ROW, easements, leases, and company owned property; oversee title/curative work; ensure compliance with applicable permitting, regulatory, and eminent-domain requirements.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent
- Five years of progressively responsible experience in land, ROW or real estate acquisition, including demonstrated experience with utilities, pipelines or infrastructure projects
- One plus years of management experience
- Professional certifications (IRWA SR/WA or equivalent) and/or real estate license strongly preferred
- Proficiency with GIS/land management systems
- Familiarity with regulatory frameworks, eminent-domain processes and multi-jurisdictional ROW requirements.
Benefits
- 401k with Company match
- Full insurance benefits (health/dental/vision/life)
- Collaborative environment with a genuine flexible working policy
- Share purchase/match plan
- Defined Contribution savings plan
- Top Talent Program
- Volunteer paid days off
- Employee Assistance Program
- Achievement fund
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
budget managementreal estate acquisitionland rights managementeasement negotiationpermit acquisitionaction planningdatabase managementtitle/curative workcompliance monitoringperformance management
Soft skills
managerial skillscommunicationnegotiationproblem-solvingcoordinationleadershiporganizational skillscustomer serviceworkload distributionsafety management
Certifications
Bachelor's DegreeIRWA SR/WAreal estate license