# Land Acquisition Real Estate Specialist (Anniston, AL)

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

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## Description

The Real Estate Specialist position supports Corporate Real Estate’s efforts to acquire legally defendable land and land rights for Alabama Power Company.

The primary job duties will include negotiating with landowners to acquire land rights necessary to facilitate the construction, operation and maintenance of the company’s system and its facilities.

**Major Job Responsibilities Include:**

- Acquire right of way for distribution facilities and provide periodic support to transmission acquisition and fee land

- Maintain excellent communication with colleagues, customers and landowners

- Establish relationships with distribution engineers

- Establish relationships with probate office personnel

- Be customer service focused

- Perform title searches and title curative work

- Manage multiple projects with minimal supervision

- Manage workload via information management software

- Interpret engineering drawings and/or survey drawings; and write legal descriptions

- Perform field checks for each project request

- Consistently maintain attention to detail while performing job responsibilities

- Effectively negotiate with landowners

- Support storm restoration efforts as assigned

**POSITION QUALIFICATIONS**

- Bachelor’s degree strongly preferred. Relevant work experience will be considered

- Previous experience negotiating with landowners to acquire land or land rights for Rights of Way highly preferred

- Experience performing title research highly preferred

**Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:**

- Knowledge and understanding of land, land rights, and land transactions

- Ability to perform extensive title research to identify all individuals, business entities, or others who currently have an interest in the ownership of the property

- Ability to read and understand engineering sketches, property documents, legal descriptions and drawings

- Strong oral and written communication skills

- Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to interface with colleagues, customers, and land owners

- Demonstrated ability to provide excellent customer service

- Demonstrated negotiation and problem-solving skills

- Ability to manage multiple projects with competing deadlines

- Effective and efficient time management skills

- Knowledge and understanding of company’s core business

- Proficiency with Microsoft Office

**BENEFITS**

- Competitive Pay

- Excellent benefits packages which includes:

- Medical and dental coverage

- Defined Pension/Cash Balance Benefit Plan

- Performance-sharing plan

- 401(k) plan with a generous company match

- Bonus opportunities

- Tuition Reimbursement

## Skills

### Required
- title research
- land transactions
- engineering drawings
- Microsoft Office
- communication skills
- negotiation skills

### Nice to have
- previous experience in land acquisition
- title research experience

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