Land Management, Senior Specialist

Join the Clean Energy Revolution

Become a Land Management, Senior Specialist at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you'll apply your land management expertise to protect, optimize, and enhance thousands of acres of company-owned property critical to powering California's clean energy future. From overseeing the full lifecycle of land assets to identifying opportunities for revenue generation and ensuring compliance across leases, easements, and rights-of-way, you'll play a strategic role in safeguarding the land that keeps our grid resilient.

Key Focus of Role

• Manage the post-acquisition lifecycle of land assets.
• Maintain robust land records, tracks lease and license expirations.
• Conduct regular reviews and field checks to ensure third parties are not encroaching on existing easements or rights-of-way and verifies adherence to the terms of existing land use agreements.
• Identify opportunities for the sale, lease, or licensing of surplus or underutilized company-owned land, manages the entire divestiture process to generate revenue or reduce holding costs.

As a Land Management, Senior Specialist, your work will help power our planet, reduce carbon emissions and create cleaner air for everyone. Are you ready to take on the challenge to help us build the future?

Responsibilities

• Manages the ongoing administration of leases, easements, and permits, ensuring continuous compliance with terms and tracking expiration/renewal dates.
• Address and resolves routine inquiries and minor encroachment issues from internal and external stakeholders regarding existing land use.
• Performs thorough property research on existing assets, interprets maps and parcel data, and utilizes GIS tools (e.g., Tract Maps, Parcel Maps, Google Earth, and Land Vision.) to support ongoing land management decisions.
• Suggests and documents improvements to routine land management operational procedures and workflows.
• Coordinates with internal departments (e.g., operations, engineering, environmental) to facilitate information sharing and ensure alignment on existing land uses.
• A material job duty of all positions within the Company is ensuring the protection of all its physical, financial and cybersecurity assets, and properly accessing and managing private customer data, proprietary information, confidential medical records, and other types of highly sensitive information and data with the highest standards of conduct and integrity.

Minimum Qualifications

• Five or more years of experience performing right of way or real property transactions and real estate acquisitions.
• Possess a valid Class C Driver's License.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Real Estate, Business Administration, GIS, Engineering, or related major.
• One or more years of experience supporting utility transmission and distribution land requirements, including substations, transmission corridors, and infrastructure projects.
• Experience working in regulated environments, particularly where land use intersects with safety, reliability, and environmental compliance requirements.
• Experience supporting or leading small to mid-scale land management projects or asset optimization initiatives.
• Experience with utility ROW standards, eminent domain processes, and public utility easement requirements.
• Experience managing divestiture, surplus property evaluation, or land revenue-generating opportunities for utility organizations.
• Experience conducting or reviewing land research, title reports, legal descriptions, surveys, plats, and parcel maps related to utility infrastructure.
• Experience with encroachment resolution, landowner negotiations, and resolving access or property use issues affecting utility assets.
• Experience and knowledge of California state utility commission regulations related to land rights or utility corridors.
• Experience negotiating land use agreements, easements, and permits with landowners, municipalities, and regulatory agencies.
  Experience with GIS platforms, such as ArcGIS Online, Google Earth, LandVision, or similar mapping tools used in utility land management.
  Experience maintaining ROW and land documentation in compliance with utility standards using platforms like SharePoint, Excel, GIS databases, or proprietary systems.
  Experience coordinating with engineering, planning, environmental, land survey, and construction teams for utility projects.

Additional Information

• This position's work mode is hybrid. The employee will report to an SCE facility for a set number of days with the option to work remotely on the remaining days. Unless otherwise noted, employees are required to work and reside in the state of California. Further details of this work mode will be discussed at the interview stage. The work mode can be changed based on business needs.
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• Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
• The primary work location for this position is Pomona, CA (Pomona Innovation Village). However, the successful candidate may also be asked to work for an extended amount of time at alternate work location.
• Position will require up to 40% traveling and being out in the field throughout the SCE service territory.
• Relocation does not apply to this position.