Supervisor, Land Management

JOB SUMMARY

This supervisory position is responsible for hiring, leading, directing and developing employees as well as contract and leased workers in the evaluation, acquisition, and preservation of land rights for company assets as described below. This position is also a subject matter expert of high competence and capacity in the skills detailed below.  Furthermore, the position has responsibilities for assessing, reporting, and improving department performance, practices, processes, and procedures.

Functional Expertise

• The application of real estate practices and principles including abstracts, appraisals, conveyances, eminent domain, property legalities, permitting, civil survey, title, real property valuation, and zoning.
• The performance of real estate investigations identifying and describing real property ownership, restrictions, and rights. Especially important is determining when costs to relocate company assets are reimbursable by others. 
• The determination and preparation of documents to satisfy standard legal requirements for management of real property, including appraisals, easements, licenses, and plats of survey.
• The examination of engineering designs, including drawings, for purposes of preserving, acquiring, communicating, or recording land rights of easements, permits.
• The management of accurate and timely completion of railroad, DOT, and other land rights fee payments.
• The management of consideration of encroachment requests to cross company infrastructure, easements or fee owned property.
• Preparation, monitoring, and reporting on the department’s annual operating expense budget.

Business Acumen:

• Leading directly or supervising agents in the performance of negotiations of land rights acquisition, whether that be rights of way, real property, or permits.
• Developing estimates of cost and schedule for land rights acquisition to support projects.
• Assessing risks and opportunities associated with land rights acquisitions.
• Performance management and development of direct staff, leased workers, and contracted services and workers.
• Leading and managing contracted and leased services.

Engagement:

• Evaluating the routing or locating of company pipeline assets in respect to the total value of land rights in cost, duration, and complexity.
• Recommend alternatives that minimize real estate requirements and permitting impacts.
• Formal representation of company at public forums in interests of company land rights.
• Evaluation, Routing, and/or Execution of legal instruments for managing real estate transactions including easements, plats, easement releases, vacations, encroachments, licenses, purchase and sale agreements, , and any others land related documents.
• Serve as land rights Track Lead for collaboration with other internal stakeholders in a project team setting involving distribution and transmission natural gas pipeline projects.
• Effective communication to company leadership of land rights issues, matters, and concerns.

Driving Results:

• Recognizing the potential and developing capacities of direct staff and contracted partners.
• Continuous examination and improvement of department process and practices.
• Collaboration and coordination with business partners and stakeholders, e.g., Asset Protection, New Business, System Integrity, Engineering, Construction Operations, Legal Department, etc.
• Ensuring department best practices are adhered to and followed.

Education, Certifications/Licenses: 

Required: 

• Bachelor’s Degree or 2 years college with 8 years real estate experience in pipelines, utilities, transportation, underwriting, title research, government, or similar right of way management experience.

Preferred: 

• Bachelor’s Degree- Business, Engineering, Law, Real Estate or related field of study

Related Work Experience:

Required: 

• Required: 8 years in pipelines, utilities, transportation, title research, or similar right of way management.

Preferred: 

• 8 years or more of natural gas pipeline right of way experience.

Applicant may possess a combination of equivalent education and work experience. 

Specific Skills & Knowledge: 

Required:

• High competency and capacity in real estate practice, principles, and laws.
• Proficient in MS Office applications.
• Proficient in GIS applications. 
• Demonstrated capacity to supervise other professionals.
• Communication skills – competent business writing and oral presentation.
• Competent reading and understanding of legal and engineering documents.

Preferred: 

• 1 year or more of exemplary project supervisory experience.
• Industry recognition as a land rights subject matter expert.

Working Conditions/Physical Requirements: 

• Occasional travel, up to 25%, by air and automobile with overnight stays for one or more nights.
• Regular prolonged standing or traversing – sometimes in a construction and/or industrial environment with moving mechanical equipment and parts.
• Regular reaching above shoulder-level.
• Regular reaching floor level.
• Ability to lift 10-25 pounds.
• Working in an office environment.
• Occasional exposure to fumes, airborne particles, or chemicals.
• Occasional exposure to various and changing outdoor weather conditions.

Disclaimer:

This information describes the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this job. The description is not designed to be a comprehensive inventory of duties, responsibilities and qualifications required in the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to qualified disabled individuals for performance of essential duties and responsibilities.