Manager, Land Development

Key Responsibilities

• 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.

Qualifications

• 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.