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About the Role

Coates Field Service, Inc. is seeking an experienced Right of Way Agent to support a client’s distribution and transmission projects. The successful candidate will be experienced in acquiring linear right of way for private landowners and able to adapt to tight deadlines to meet project deliverables.

Responsibilities

• Investigate, negotiate, acquire, defend, and ensure legal recording and enforcement of property rights required for electric, gas, or communication infrastructure.
• Utilize software and physical files to document all communication with landowners, including in-person meetings, email, and phone, and capture project updates and progress on each affected parcel.
• Engage landowners to mitigate encroachments on rights of way.
• Prepare or assist in preparing and securing specific state, highway, railroad, County, Town, City, Village permits for use of lands owned by governmental agencies, the public or other utilities, including tree-clearing permits.
• Investigate, negotiate, and acquire leases, licenses, and permits for Networks infrastructure, staging areas for storm or construction lay down areas, railroads & canals crossing permits.
• Manage legal documents, including filing, recording, parceling, indexing, and retrieval.
• Coordinate and process payments to landowners for certain property rights through internal workflow.
• Investigate electric and gas franchise agreements and boundary lines.
• Obtain right of entry and survey permission from private landowners.
• Potentially negotiate and acquire property rights required for transmission and distribution projects.
• Respond to internal and external stakeholder inquiries regarding property rights.
• Review and process executed documents according to client requirements, which may include requesting payment remittance and recording.
• Serve as a legal witness as necessary for condemnation or other proceedings.
• Other job duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Requirements

• Knowledge of real estate principles gained through education and experience.
• Working knowledge of drafting and negotiating property rights documents, including rights-of-way, easements, leases, purchases, and sale agreements.
• Strong understanding of electric transmission, sub-transmission, and distribution principles as related to right-of-way and land rights.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong negotiation and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to utilize multiple forms of technology, including project databases, Microsoft Office Suite, and Google Earth.
• Ability to plot metes and bounds descriptions of property and read various maps, electronic and paper.
• Ability to evaluate, interpret, and analyze engineering and right-of-way drawings.
• Ability to interpret and research legal documents.
• Skilled in property rights research methods, including courthouse searches for recorded documents and internet research.
• Ability to determine valuation of crops, timber, etc., for damage settlement.
• Ability to travel regularly.
• Sales and leasing experience along with commercial real estate experience is preferred.

Skills

• Real estate principles
• Drafting property rights documents
• Negotiating property rights documents
• Electric transmission principles
• Sub-transmission principles
• Distribution principles
• Written communication
• Verbal communication
• Negotiation
• Interpersonal skills
• Technology utilization
• Project databases
• Microsoft Office Suite
• Google Earth
• Plotting metes and bounds descriptions
• Reading maps
• Evaluating engineering drawings
• Interpreting engineering drawings
• Analyzing engineering drawings
• Evaluating right-of-way drawings
• Interpreting right-of-way drawings
• Analyzing right-of-way drawings
• Interpreting legal documents
• Researching legal documents
• Property rights research
• Courthouse searches
• Internet research
• Determining valuation of crops
• Determining valuation of timber
• Damage settlement

Location

• Near Binghamton, NY

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Experienced

Benefits

• Medical/dental
• Vision
• STD/LTD
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Company paid holidays

About the Company

• Coates has a 76-year history providing comprehensive land acquisition and right of way services to municipalities, utilities, energy providers, and oil and gas companies nationwide.
• The first firm of its kind, Coates is widely recognized as a leader in the land and right of way acquisition industry.
• A national corporation, Coates has the depth of knowledge and the agility to respond to client needs in all 50 states.
• Coates is headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, with regional offices located throughout the United States.
• It is our mission to provide professional, high-quality, cost-efficient land acquisition and right of way services our clients need, when and where they need us.

Equal Opportunity

• Coates hires the best candidates available for all positions, without regard to the individual's race, religion, or sexual preference or orientation.
• Coates is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE).