Land Manager

Greenvolt•Boston, MA

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Land Manager leads and coordinates land and real estate activities for utility-scale renewable energy and battery energy storage projects while supporting broader project development priorities. The role works with development partners, landowners, consultants, title companies, surveyors, outside counsel, and internal teams to advance site control, land diligence, and project milestones from origination through construction readiness. It combines real estate transactions, greenfield opportunity assessment, M&A due diligence, consultant management, project controls, and other development workstreams as business needs evolve.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in real estate, business, project management, planning, engineering, environmental science, law, or a related discipline; equivalent relevant experience will be considered.
At least 5 years of experience in renewable energy, energy infrastructure, real estate development, project development, or a related field.
Practical experience supporting land acquisition, site control, landowner agreements, title, survey, or related real estate diligence.
Experience coordinating consultants, counsel, development partners, landowners, and multidisciplinary project teams.
Demonstrated ability to manage complex projects, multiple priorities, and evolving responsibilities with limited supervision.
Working knowledge of common renewable energy land agreements and the purpose of title and survey diligence; deep technical specialization is not required.
Strong project management, organization, document control, scheduling, budgeting, and follow-through skills.
Commercial judgment and ability to distinguish material project risks from issues manageable through normal development processes.
Ability to manage partners and consultants effectively without direct authority and hold stakeholders accountable for commitments.
Clear written and verbal communication with landowners, executives, counsel, technical teams, and external counterparties.
Comfort shifting between detailed execution and broader development strategy in a fast-moving environment.
Collaborative, resourceful approach and willingness to take on unfamiliar workstreams, engage subject-matter experts, and drive issues toward resolution.

Nice To Haves

Experience with utility-scale solar, wind, battery energy storage, transmission, or other linear infrastructure.
Experience supporting greenfield development, project acquisitions, or transaction due diligence.

Responsibilities

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, including title commitments, ALTA/NSPS surveys, legal descriptions, exhibits, and resolution of identified issues.
Partner with outside counsel, title companies, surveyors, and internal stakeholders on title cure, consents, releases, subordinations, and other corrective actions.
Track material land obligations, option periods, notices, payments, approvals, recording requirements, and other critical dates.
Maintain land records, status reports, risk logs, and action plans across multiple projects.
Serve as the primary internal contact for land and related development work performed by development partners.
Review partner and consultant deliverables, escalate material risks, and drive open items to resolution.
Coordinate negotiation positions, document control, diligence standards, and stakeholder communications.
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.
Coordinate land activities with broader community and permitting strategies.
Confirm that land rights, access rights, surveys, title items, consents, exhibits, and recordings are sufficiently advanced for financing, NTP, and construction.
Prepare 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.
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.
Support identification and screening of greenfield renewable energy and storage opportunities, considering site, ownership, access, land use, permitting, interconnection, environmental, and stakeholder factors.
Coordinate early-stage desktop diligence and consultant inputs to assess 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 milestones, responsibilities, and risk mitigation actions.
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.