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• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Bonus based on performance
• Competitive salary
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Opportunity for advancement
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Land Acquisition Specialist
Summary
Delta Oaks Group is seeking a Land Acquisition Specialist to support our telecommunications, fiber, renewable energy, commercial, and governmental infrastructure projects. The successful candidate will drive site identification, landowner engagement, and lease negotiation efforts, ensuring timely delivery of land rights and easements. Ideal applicants will have hands-on experience securing ground leases, option agreements, and permits, combined with strong interpersonal skills and a thorough understanding of real-estate due diligence and regulatory requirements.
Positional Responsibilities
The ideal candidate will possess a deep understanding of land acquisition workflows, property-owner negotiations, and site feasibility assessments. You will serve as the primary point of contact for landowners, legal teams, and internal stakeholders throughout the acquisition lifecycle. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills are essential, as the role involves coordinating with internal teams, clients, and regulatory agencies.
• Identify and qualify prospective sites through mapping tools, public records, and field reconnaissance.
• Conduct detailed site-feasibility analyses, evaluating zoning, access, environmental, and utility constraints including civil design issues.
• Initiate and manage outreach to landowners, brokers, and property managers to secure site selection and leasing rights.
• Draft, review, and negotiate landowner agreements, including ground leases, option contracts, and easements.
• Collaborate with legal and title teams to obtain title commitments and resolve encumbrances
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date records of site acquisition activities. Prepare reports, summaries, and documentation for internal and external stakeholders.
• Proactively identify and address site selection challenges (including zoning and permitting, environmental, and landowner concerns). Collaborate with cross-functional teams to find creative solutions and ensure project success.
• Demonstrate a fundamental understanding of zoning and building review procedures including the ability to comprehend Civil/A&E/Environmental deliverables, thoroughly assessing materials for accuracy and clarity in the site acquisition process.
• Cultivate positive relationships with local planning departments, zoning boards, landowners, and community stakeholders. Represent the company in zoning hearings and community meetings.
• Work closely with internal teams to coordinate the site acquisition aspects of various industry projects. Ensure compliance with local, state and federal regulations.
Due to the nature and limited timelines of most projects, the selected individual should be willing and capable of exhibiting the work ethic and social ability to succeed in a fast- paced environment where communication with co-workers and strategic partners is paramount.
Computer Software Experience
• Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Microsoft Excel
• Adobe Acrobat
• ArcGIS Map Viewer
• Google Earth
• Local Jurisdiction GIS systems
Experience/Minimum Requirements
• Experience in site acquisition, land rights, or real-estate negotiations, preferably within telecommunications, fiber, or energy sectors.
• Proven track record negotiating ground leases, option agreements, and easements.
• Demonstrated experience preparing Site Candidate Information Packages (SCIPs) with accurate mapping, ownership reports, site-data summaries, environmental due diligence findings, and land-use (zoning) analyses.
• Proficient in site selection methodologies and evaluating candidate sites against technical, financial, and regulatory criteria
• Familiarity with local, state, and federal land-use regulations and permitting processes.
• Skilled in researching and interpreting zoning districts, parcel records, title records, and GIS information for properties in various jurisdictions
• Experience interpreting preliminary site plans or construction drawings depicting the development of civil related telecommunications, fiber and/or renewable energy infrastructure
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and meet deadlines.
• Detail-oriented with excellent organizational and analytical abilities.
Culture
Delta Oaks Group is founded on the principle of delivering unparalleled client service and providing its employees an exceptional work environment. We strongly believe that these two principles are not separable and are only accomplished through hard work, honesty, and treating others with respect. We are seeking individuals that share those same values.
Education Requirements
Associate degree in urban planning, construction management, project management, or a related field. Applicants without a degree and with over 5 years of applicable experience will also be given consideration.
Travel Requirements
Moderate travel, approximately 50%, will be required
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Delta Oaks Group
Delta Oaks Group is a professional engineering firm offering site development, inspection and structural engineering services throughout the United States and Its Territories with a focus in the commercial and telecommunications industries.
Delta Oaks Group was established on two basic principles that we believe drive service based business:

1. Provide superior client service
2. Hire and retain exceptional talent

At Delta Oaks Group, our objective is to focus on core values in order to rekindle the traditional small business philosophies that are so often neglected in today's business landscape. We believe this starts by focusing on the people with which we share our professional environment, thereby respecting those we work for (clients) and those we work with (colleagues). Valuing and understanding both your client's and colleague's vision of long-term success and their incremental objectives along the way; establishing a collaborative and transparent communicative environment regarding the professional achievements and challenges associated with those objectives; and committing to the hard-work and dedication necessary to help achieve those long-term goals are all prerequisites Delta Oaks Group believes are essential to creating a true PARTNERSHIP that promotes the success of both parties.
Delta Oaks Group firmly believes that its success can only be achieved through focusing on the two most important assets of the technical service business; clients and employees. Exceptional technical services are driven by unique talent that possesses the willingness and ability to seek and comprehend client needs while consistently exhibiting an unrelenting attention to detail and desire to settle for nothing but the best. The Delta Oaks Group difference is coupling this approach with superior client service founded on unmatched client responsiveness, transparency, and client-tailored managerial systems and communication protocols.
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