# Right of Way Specialist

**Company**: Alabama Power Company
**Location**: Birmingham, AL
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Energy

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## Description

The Right-of-Way Specialist represents Alabama Power Company in managing transmission rights-of-way within a specific geographic area, supporting the Birmingham Transmission Maintenance Center (TMC).

The Specialist will work with external customers and internal organizations to address right-of-way encroachment issues and resolve access and easement rights issues.

Key responsibilities include:

- Reviewing aerial patrol reports and performing field inspections to identify and address unpermitted usage of rights-of-way

- Meeting with internal and external customers about right-of-way use, reviewing and processing use requests, and coordinating reviews and approvals from internal organizations

- Preparing customer correspondence, encroachment agreements, and other documentation as needed

- Reviewing and interpreting easements regarding rights granted, special considerations, and right-of-way restrictions

- Serving as Transmission's point of contact for land sales requests impacting the Transmission organization

- Prioritizing and tracking projects using a departmental database and preparing records documenting approved encroachments and completed projects

- Assisting with storm response within the Southern Company System and off-system restoration efforts as needed

- Ensuring compliance with APC's environmental and health and safety guidelines

- Processing quitclaims for APC

The ideal candidate will have:

- An associate's or bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience in the encroachment field

- Suitable experience in reading easements, deeds, and surveys, and reviewing and drafting construction drawings

- Experience managing utility right-of-way encroachments and prior experience with a utility company

- Knowledge of property rights and transmission, distribution, system operations, and transmission maintenance

- Strong negotiation, conflict resolution, interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills

- Strong organizational, analytical, project management, and problem-solving skills

- Proficiency with computers, including Microsoft Office products and various Transmission application systems

- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and in outdoor conditions as necessary

- Valid driver's license

The Specialist must exhibit Alabama Power Company's values: Safety First, Intentional Inclusion, Act with Integrity, and Superior Performance, and have a strong commitment to safety.

## Skills

### Required
- easement interpretation
- survey analysis
- construction drawing review
- right-of-way management
- conflict resolution
- project management
- Microsoft Office proficiency
- GIS applications
- transmission line knowledge

### Nice to have
- utility industry experience

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