Location: Salt Lake City, UT | Greater Los Angeles, CA | Greater Portland, OR (local only)
Schedule: Hybrid (3 days/week in office)
Compensation: Competitive base salary + annual bonus
Travel: Up to 30%
A growing energy infrastructure developer is seeking a Manager, Land Development to support the acquisition, title, and real estate efforts associated with large-scale infrastructure projects. This role will be responsible for securing and managing project sites from early-stage development through Notice to Proceed (NTP), ensuring projects are positioned for successful execution and construction.
This position combines land acquisition, site control, title management, survey review, and title curative responsibilities. The ideal candidate is a proactive self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced development environment and can independently manage multiple projects simultaneously.
Negotiate and manage site control agreements, including leases, easements, options, rights-of-way, amendments, and related real estate documents.
Obtain, review, and analyze title commitments, title reports, and supporting legal documentation.
Identify and resolve title curative matters, including mineral ownership issues, surface waivers, mortgage subordinations, crossing agreements, and other title defects.
Review and analyze ALTA surveys and coordinate revisions with surveyors and project stakeholders.
Define lease and easement boundaries and communicate project constraints to internal teams.
Coordinate mineral ownership reviews and underwriting efforts with title companies and consultants.
Partner closely with development, engineering, permitting, legal, finance, and project execution teams throughout the development lifecycle.
Manage external consultants, title vendors, surveyors, and other third-party service providers.
Support project financing efforts by ensuring real estate and title matters are appropriately addressed.
Prepare projects for successful handoff to construction and execution teams at NTP.
5+ years of experience in land development, land acquisition, title, real estate, right-of-way, or related infrastructure development roles.
Strong understanding of title review, title curative processes, and ALTA surveys.
Experience negotiating site control agreements and working directly with landowners.
Ability to read and interpret legal documents, title reports, surveys, easements, and real estate agreements.
Experience supporting utility-scale energy, power generation, data center, renewable energy, utility, transmission, or oil & gas infrastructure projects is preferred.
Familiarity with GIS, Google Earth, ALTA surveys, and other mapping resources.
Bachelor's degree in business, land management, real estate, planning, legal studies, or a related field preferred.
Self-starter who takes ownership and drives projects forward.
Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking abilities.
Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Highly organized with strong attention to detail.
Resourceful, proactive, and collaborative approach to project execution.
Work on large-scale infrastructure projects across multiple sectors, including power generation, renewable energy, data centers, and industrial development.
Join a growing organization with a significant development pipeline.
High-visibility role with direct impact on project execution and long-term company growth.
Opportunity to work cross-functionally with development, engineering, legal, finance, and construction teams.
If interested and qualified, please apply here. Unfortunately, this company is not able to provide work sponsorship.