The Company:
Headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, Energix Renewables is a leading independent power producer that develops, constructs, owns and operates solar energy projects in Virginia, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Kentucky.
Energix Renewables is a subsidiary of an Israeli publicly traded company, Energix – Renewable Energies Ltd. (TASE: ENRG). With operations in Israel, Poland, and the United States, the Energix group of companies has brought online over 1GW, with a pipeline of more than 7GW, leading the “green revolution” in the energy sector with its innovative solar and wind energy generation projects.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
- Understand relevant aspects of storage and renewable energy projects and can successfully educate landowners and other stakeholders as appropriate.
- Leads and negotiates complex land and site acquisition (lease and purchase) agreements.
- Assists in formulating and implementing department strategy for targeting, negotiating and acquiring a portfolio of key sites and land, both rural and industrial.
- Manages 3rd party consultants, while working with the Company's permitting and other teams, in gaining critical community support.
- Works with the Company's staff and public agency staff to assure timely public review and approval including environmental and other entitlement reviews.
- Supports the Company's rezoning efforts where needed..
- Prepares and monitors project site acquisition budgets, landowner management and payments and cash flow projections.
- Supports the Company's public presentations at external stakeholder, project and policy meetings.
- Facilitates training and technical support for new staff and projects where needed.
- Manages / works with landowner community groups to facilitate strong community perception and foster good relationships with the landowners.
- Makes presentations before public bodies and large community groups where needed, fielding questions and furthering the interests of the company as well as the landowner.
- Travel as required to facilitate land acquisition efforts and foster positive relationships with landowners and other interested parties.
- Prepares acquisition documents; leases, options, LOI's, memoranda, etc.; filing documents with local recorders of deeds.
- Upload data into relevant spreadsheets in a timely manner; keep all interested parties informed of project progress in real time.
- Perform initial due diligence to determine suitability and availability of targeted properties, including title, environmental, and zoning.
- Focus on project goals and produce under strict project deadlines.
- Ability to travel 30%-50%
Education/Certifications:
- Bachelor's Degree preferred, but is not required
- Strong preference given to those with survey and/or mine permitting experience
- Commercial Real estate license and experience preferred
- Valid Drivers License
Experience:
- Demonstrated experience in managing / working with 3rd parties in complex transactions and negotiations
- 3 plus years of experience in large project transactions, i.e. infrastructure, oil/gas, energy or similar real property acquisition transactions. Type of experience we're looking for includes but is not limited to:
- Experience working with Escrow Officers to close a variety of real estate transactions, including drafting escrow instructions, coordinating closing, and handling pre-closing and post-closing matters
- Experience in real estate due diligence including land surveys, assessment of title risk and clearing of title matters, hazardous materials investigations and remediation, and land use permitting
- Large project (emphasis on energy or renewable energy) siting and real property management experience
- Prior experience with O&G, coal mining industries and/or solar experience is strongly preferred.
- Strong working knowledge and experience with local, state, and federal permit and other regulations, ability to work seamlessly with our permit and legal teams
- Experience researching mineral rights and acquisition of mineral rights waivers.
- Comfortable in addressing large public and landowner groups, fielding questions and furthering the interests of the company as well as the landowners
- Experience with project management systems, cloud based/internet software systems, including systems for tracking contractual obligations relating to real estate agreements..
- Proficient in MS word, excel and PowerPoint
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team to meet project milestones in a timely manner.
Location
- Strong preference for the candidate to have prior experience in with the above within the states of Kentucky, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, or Virginia
- Strong preference for the candidate to be currently located in West Virginia or Kentucky
- Position will be remote with 30-50% travel. Trips to our headquarters office in Arlington, VA will be required from time to time.