Offer summary

Qualifications:

Associate's or Bachelor's degree, Minimum 10 years land acquisition experience, 2 years in renewable energy, Comprehensive understanding of real estate and land contracts, High proficiency in communication and reading maps, Strong problem-solving and critical thinking skills.

Key responsabilities:

Develop land acquisition strategies for greenfield projects

Research land records and locate contact information

Negotiate and acquire easements/leases for renewable energy development

Collaborate with legal team to ensure accurate agreements

Maintain communications with landowners and organize project documents

Job description

COMPANY OVERVIEW

174 Power Global, headquartered in Irvine, California, is an affiliate company of Hanwha Group, a FORTUNE Global 500 firm that is among the eight largest business enterprises in South Korea. 174 Power Global designs, builds and manages solar power plant solutions. The company brings a decade of global leadership in solar PV to North America, combining best-of-world technology, processes and partnerships to deliver utility-grade solar PV solutions customized for local energy markets. 174 Power Global offers the full spectrum of PV solutions – from power plant development, design, construction, operations and maintenance. With proven capabilities across the solar value chain, 174 Power Global minimizes uncertainty and risk, and helps customers achieve a higher return on their investment in solar energy.

POSITION OVERVIEW

The Land Agent will be responsible for designing and implementing land acquisition strategies and plans for new solar, battery energy, green hydrogen, and wind development sites. This person will work closely with landowners, local governments, and community organizations to gain support for proposed projects. They will also work closely with internal departments including Legal, Development, and Engineering in support of developing viable project sites. The Land Agent will lead the process of contacting landowners and negotiating the purchase or lease of their land as well as gaining easements and other surface use agreements.

This position reports to the Manager of Greenfield Development, or another senior management personnel that the CDO of the Company may designate. This position may be required to travel up to 50% of the time, with travel to headquarters and proposed project sites across the United States.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Work with company’s management to develop and execute land acquisition strategies for greenfield projects, existing projects and project acquisitions

Obtain source documentation needed for easements or leases from public records found online, or located in county courthouses or abstract offices

Research land and landowner records, locate contact information; phone numbers and email addresses

Initiate contact with landowners

Organize and deliver presentations to individual landowners, small groups of landowners and at times, large groups of landowners

Negotiate and acquire easements/leases for renewable energy development and related agreements from project landowners with a comprehensive understanding of the terms and conditions of the company’s land agreements

Collaborate with the legal team to oversee the delivery of accurate, complete, and authenticated agreements

Organize documents, records and files pertaining to each prospective site or project

Communicate land status inventory through use of database and GIS mapping tools provided

Maintain communications with landowners as necessary through the full development life cycle

Assist Legal team with title curative matters including obtaining signatures on additional curative landowner documents

Assist with document recording

Assist with crossing agreements

Assist with contacting mineral owners

Attend regular project and team meetings

Administrative duties such as creating and tracking purchase order requests and vendor invoices

Create weekly project reports

Take ownership of assigned projects, including managing deadlines, multiple project objectives, project timelines, and success criteria for each.

QUALIFICATIONS

Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree

Minimum of 10 years of land acquisition experience with a minimum of 2 years of renewable energy-related land acquisition experience preferred

Comprehensive understanding of real estate matters

Familiarity with land records

Confidence to make cold calls and knock-on doors

Experience with land contracts

High proficiency in communication; both oral and written

High proficiency in reading and interpreting maps

Must be able to troubleshoot problems and find solutions independently. Critical thinking and creative ingenuity are essential

Must have initiative, problem-solving skills, and ability to work efficiently and effectively alone or with a team

High degree of professionalism and conduct at all times.

Ability to relate to others and adjust communication style according to audience

Strong record-keeping skills

Microsoft Office Suite with advanced proficiency, required

GIS web application familiarity

Comfortable working in a fast-moving dynamic, environment

Attention external recruitment firms, we will not accept any unsolicited resumes at this time. Please do not contact any internal member of our company to discuss the position or to solicit candidates.

174 Power Global provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics.

www.174powerglobal.com.

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