Manager or Sr. Manager, Land Acquisition

The role

The Manager or Sr. Manager, Land Acquisition will lead real estate negotiations and due diligence for solar and storage projects. This role involves site analysis, contract drafting, and coordinating with various project stakeholders.

What you will do

• Lead negotiations for all real estate entitlements underlying the portfolio of solar and storage projects.
• Lead due diligence tracking and project status reporting for assigned project workflows.
• Assist with new market and site analysis including investigation of land development criteria and land ownership.
• Assist with review, resolution, and reporting of title matters to support financing of projects.
• Coordinate efforts among landowners, attorneys, surveyors, utilities, title companies, and other key project stakeholders.
• Assist with drafting, abstraction, and execution of agreements including purchase and lease agreements, surface waiver agreements, easements, crossing agreements, estoppels, subordination agreements,
• Preparation of land project budgets and upkeep of various spreadsheets in connection with cost projections.
• Solve cross-functional project hurdles in coordination with legal, transmission, permitting, engineering, origination, and finance teams.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree
• Minimum of 5+ years of real estate specific experience on utility scale renewable energy projects.
• Highly proficient in Google Earth, MS Office Suite, including use of advanced features and AI tools.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Comprehensive understanding of real estate issues specific to energy development and renewable energy financing requirements.
• Ability to read, understand and interpret legal documents and real estate contracts.
• Direct experience leading real estate workflow for utility scale solar projects from greenfield siting to financial closing.
• Experience managing ALTA surveys mapping out and resolving complex title issues.
• Experience managing large scale greenfield siting campaigns.
• Willingness to travel up to (2) times a month.
• Resides in western United States

Nice to have

• Juris Doctor
• Experience managing large mineral rights mitigation efforts on solar projects and has a demonstrated comprehension of mineral rights and how to mitigate mineral rights risk.
• Experience providing clear and concise updates to executive teams and creating simple and effective tools to provide said updates.
• San Diego

Benefits

• 401(k) matching
• comprehensive medical and dental plan options
• flexible PTO

About the company

Avantus develops, owns and operates utility-scale clean energy projects across California and the Desert Southwest. The company is an independent power producer delivering clean energy solutions.