Right of Way Specialist

About the role

Marathon Petroleum (MPC) is committed to being a great place to work that welcomes new ideas, encourages diverse perspectives, develops people, and fosters a collaborative team environment. Core values guiding the business are safety and environmental stewardship, integrity, inclusion, collaboration, and excellence. Employees contribute to diverse work teams that create value for shareholders. The ROW Specialist role serves Marathon Pipe Line (MPL) by establishing and maintaining positive relations with landowners, municipalities, and agencies; negotiating agreements; enforcing land agreements; ensuring compliance; and working with stakeholders to protect company assets.

Responsibilities

• Serves as the primary contact for establishing and maintaining positive stakeholder relationships and resolving disputes to avoid legal action and media attention.
• Manages encroachments near company assets to protect them from damage and ensure all rights are preserved.
• Initiates the interpretation of agreements and easements, enforces restrictions or rights, grants encroachment variances, and interfaces with field personnel, Law, and Management on executed agreements.
• Supports project work by negotiating and securing pipeline rights-of-way, surface leases, easements, permits, and related agreements to support scope of work.
• Serves as a support contact for Community Relations, compensation, and claims handling within the Incident Command Structure for Emergency Response efforts.
• Negotiates and issues damage payments with stakeholders.
• Provides consultative advice in developing Public Awareness information, policies, plans, and programs, participates in Public Awareness presentations, and supports Public Engagement events.

Requirements

• Valid driver's license required.
• Willingness to travel up to 10% of time (up to 25% if located outside the La Palma office).
• Preferred work locations: La Palma, CA; Salt Lake City, UT; Boise, ID; San Antonio, TX.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED equivalent required.
• Two (2) years of related pipeline or ROW experience (contract land agent, in-house ROW or pipeline operations, pipeline project management experience, or title research or documentation) required.

Benefits

• Access to health, vision, and dental insurance.
• Paid time off.
• 401k matching program.
• Paid parental leave.
• Educational reimbursement.
• Discretionary company-sponsored annual bonus program.

Pay

Salary range: $93,000.00 – $160,300.00 (Salary Grade 10‑11).

Schedule

Full‑time regular position.