# Land Acquisition Real Estate Specialist

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

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## Description

We are seeking a Land Acquisition Real Estate Specialist to support Corporate Real Estate's efforts to acquire land and land rights for Alabama Power Company. The successful candidate will have a primary responsibility for acquiring right of way for transmission facilities and acquiring fee-owned land.

**Responsibilities:**

- Negotiate with landowners to acquire land rights necessary for transmission system and facilities

- Maintain excellent communication with colleagues and customers

- Establish relationships with Transmission Project Management, Transmission Line Services, and Transmission Line Construction

- Perform title searches and title curative work

- Manage multiple projects with minimal supervision

- Interpret engineering drawings and write legal descriptions

- Perform field checks for each project request

- Consistently maintain attention to detail

- Effectively negotiate with landowners

- Support storm restoration efforts as assigned

**Requirements:**

- Bachelor's degree strongly preferred

- Previous land and/or land rights acquisition experience highly preferred

- Experience negotiating land, contracts, or other large assets desired

- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to interface with colleagues and customers

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

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

- Strong oral and written communication skills

- 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 package including medical and dental coverage, defined pension/cash balance benefit plan, performance-sharing plan, 401(k) plan with company match, bonus opportunities, and tuition reimbursement

## Skills

### Required
- land acquisition
- real estate
- negotiation
- communication
- project management
- title search
- engineering drawings
- legal descriptions

### Nice to have
- previous land and/or land rights acquisition experience
- experience negotiating land, contracts, or other large assets

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