Land Manager

The Land Manager is responsible for leading and coordinating land and real estate activities for utility-scale renewable energy and battery energy storage projects, while also supporting broader project development priorities. The role will work closely with development partners, landowners, consultants, title companies, surveyors, outside counsel, and internal teams to advance site control, land diligence, and other project milestones from origination through construction readiness. 

The ideal candidate brings practical experience with renewable energy land matters and strong project management capabilities. This is a versatile development role for someone comfortable moving between real estate transactions, greenfield opportunity assessment, M&A due diligence, consultant management, project controls, and other workstreams as business needs evolve. 

Reports To: Head of Development 

Key Responsibilities 

Land & Site Control 

• Lead and coordinate land acquisition and site control strategies for project sites, gen-tie routes, access, and supporting facilities. 

• Work with development partners and land agents to advance leases, options, easements, amendments, crossing agreements, access agreements, and related land rights. 

• Coordinate title, survey, and land diligence activities, including title commitments, ALTA/NSPS surveys, legal descriptions, exhibits, and resolution of identified issues. 

• Partner with outside counsel, title companies, surveyors, and internal stakeholders to develop practical plans for title cure, consents, releases, subordinations, or other corrective actions when needed. 

• Track material land obligations, option periods, notices, payments, approvals, recording requirements, and other critical dates. 

• Maintain organized land records, status reports, risk logs, and action plans across multiple projects. 

Development Partner & Consultant Management 

• Serve as the primary internal point of contact for land and related development work performed by development partners. 

• Review partner and consultant deliverables for completeness and alignment with project requirements, escalate material risks, and drive open items to resolution. 

• Coordinate consistent negotiation positions, document control, diligence standards, and stakeholder communications. 

Landowner & Stakeholder Relationships 

• Build and maintain professional relationships with landowners, adjacent owners, local stakeholders, utilities, road authorities, and other third parties. 

• Support landowner communications, negotiations, commitments, payment coordination, and issue resolution throughout development. 

• Work within the development team to ensure land activities are coordinated with broader community and permitting strategies. 

Construction Readiness & Handoff 

• Coordinate confirmation that required land rights, access rights, surveys, title items, consents, exhibits, and recordings are sufficiently advanced for financing, NTP, and construction. 

• Prepare clear handoff materials summarizing land rights, obligations, restrictions, commitments, and unresolved risks. 

• Support construction and operations teams with landowner coordination, access issues, agreement interpretation, and post-NTP matters as needed. 

Project Development Leadership 

• Advance multiple development projects by establishing priorities, schedules, budgets, milestone trackers, and risk mitigation plans. 

• Coordinate cross-functional teams across Development, Legal, Engineering, Interconnection, Environmental, Permitting, Finance, Procurement, and Construction. 

• Identify, monitor, escalate, and help mitigate risks affecting project cost, schedule, approvals, financing, or viability. 

• Prepare project updates, decision materials, and recommendations for management and investment reviews. 

• Support permitting, stakeholder engagement, commercial agreements, project controls, financing diligence, and NTP readiness as assigned. 

• Take ownership of additional development workstreams as project priorities and business needs evolve. 

Greenfield Development & Opportunity Assessment 

• Support identification and screening of greenfield renewable energy and storage opportunities, including initial site, ownership, access, land use, permitting, interconnection, environmental, and stakeholder considerations. 

• Coordinate early-stage desktop diligence and consultant inputs to help determine project feasibility, risk, schedule, and development strategy. 

• Support outreach strategies, site control planning, preliminary budgets, development schedules, and internal opportunity reviews. 

• Help transition selected opportunities into structured development plans with clear milestones, responsibilities, and risk mitigation actions. 

M&A and Transaction Due Diligence 

• Support acquisition and partnership evaluations by coordinating land, title, survey, permitting, environmental, interconnection, and other development diligence. 

• Review project data rooms, summarize material findings, identify information gaps, and maintain diligence trackers and risk registers. 

• Coordinate with internal subject-matter experts, outside counsel, consultants, and counterparties to resolve diligence questions and support investment decisions. 

• Assist with closing readiness, conditions precedent, transition planning, and post-closing integration of acquired projects.