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Avantus

Develops, builds, and operates utility-scale solar.

Manager or Senior Manager - Land Acquisition

Real Estate DevelopmentConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeSan Diego, CA, USA

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor’s degree is required; a Juris Doctor is preferred.
  • At least 5 years of real-estate-specific experience on utility-scale renewable-energy projects is required.
  • Proficiency in Google Earth and Microsoft Office Suite, including advanced features and AI tools, is required.
  • A comprehensive understanding of real estate issues specific to energy development and renewable-energy financing requirements is required.
  • The ability to read, understand, and interpret legal documents and real-estate contracts is required.
  • Strong analytical reasoning and critical-thinking skills, including the ability to analyze large amounts of project data, are required.
  • Direct experience leading real-estate workflows for utility-scale solar projects from greenfield siting through financial closing is required.
  • Experience managing ALTA surveys and mapping and resolving complex title issues is required.
  • Experience managing large-scale greenfield siting campaigns is required.
  • Candidates must be willing to travel up to twice a month and reside in the western United States; San Diego is preferred.

Responsibilities

  • Lead negotiations for all real-estate entitlements underlying Avantus’ solar and storage project portfolio.
  • Lead due-diligence tracking and project-status reporting for assigned project workflows.
  • Assist with new-market and site analysis, including investigation of land-development criteria and land ownership.
  • Assist with review, resolution, and reporting of title matters supporting project financing, including encroachments, mineral-rights mitigation, liens, and other critical matters.
  • Coordinate efforts among landowners, attorneys, surveyors, utilities, title companies, and other key project stakeholders.
  • Assist with drafting, abstracting, and executing agreements, including purchase and lease agreements, surface waiver agreements, easements, crossing agreements, estoppels, subordination agreements, and affidavits.
  • Prepare land-project budgets and maintain spreadsheets for cost projections, including option-payment spreadsheets.
  • Resolve cross-functional project hurdles in coordination with legal, transmission, permitting, engineering, origination, and finance teams.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience managing large mineral-rights mitigation efforts on solar projects, with demonstrated understanding of mineral rights and mitigation of related risks.
  • Experience providing clear and concise updates to executive teams and creating simple, effective tools for those updates.

About the Company

Avantus

Develops, builds, and operates utility-scale solar.

Avantus develops, builds, owns, and operates utility-scale solar and energy storage projects, mainly in the Western United States. It manages the full project lifecycle—from development and financing to construction and ongoing operation—and earns revenue by selling clean energy to utilities and large customers. A key differentiator is its integrated, end-to-end approach across project development, financing, construction, and operation, supported by a large project pipeline. A majority stake held by KKR is expected to speed up the deployment of its solar and storage projects. The company’s goal is to provide reliable, low-cost clean energy to communities and businesses while advancing the energy transition.

Company size
201-500
Company stage
N/A
Total funding
$2.6B
Headquarters
Folsom, CA
Founded
2009

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