Right of Way Agent 2
About The Position
This position is responsible for observing, evaluating, coordinating, and overseeing third-party contractors on operating facilities to ensure right of way compliance with established Company standards, specifications, and local, state, and federal regulations. The role involves managing relationships with landowners, negotiating land rights, and resolving disputes. It also includes evaluating and maintaining right of way records, researching property ownership, preparing right of way documents, and analyzing various legal agreements related to right of way. The agent will work with the legal organization on litigation and provide training and mentoring to other employees.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Real Estate, Engineering or related field and three years of right of way experience; or equivalent.
- Excellent verbal and written skills to persuade and/or influence internal customers and external stakeholders (including landowners, attorneys, developers and governmental officials) on critical matters regarding easement/land rights, contractual issues and operational issues.
- Advanced negotiation skills.
- Ability to perform basic addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
- Working knowledge of various business computer applications in order to create standardized documents, reports or graphs.
- Advanced user with Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Adobe Professional, and Google Earth.
- Requires valid driver's license.
Responsibilities
- Observes, evaluates, coordinates and oversees third party contractors on operating facilities to assure right of way.
- Assures compliance with established Company standards and specifications, local, state and federal regulations.
- Manages relationships with land owners and negotiates to obtain land rights from property owners, attorneys or agents including land owned by public bodies.
- Resolves, negotiates, and diffuses land owner disputes and critical complaints.
- Negotiates monetary settlements for property damage caused by construction work or landowner disputes.
- Evaluates and maintains Company's right of way records to assure compliance with local, state and federal regulations.
- Researches courthouse and other records to determine legal ownership, property descriptions, ownership details and signatures required for procurement of right-of-way authorization of property ownership.
- Prepares right of way documents including plat detailing proposed work and land rights provisions.
- Prepares letters of restrictions applicable to proposed construction work.
- Analyzes easements, leases, licenses, permits, contracts and related right of way documents for compliance and to assure proper maintenance of company assets.
- Works with the Company's legal organization to manage litigation and right of way issues.
- Provides training and technical directions in land rights acquisition to other employees engaged in similar work.
- Reviews all right-of-way instruments for accuracy and completeness prior to execution.
- Provides guidance and mentoring to lower level Right of Way employees.
- Reviews work prepared by lower level employees.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
