Job Details

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.