Landowner Outreach & Optioning: Initiate contact, build local relationships, and negotiate options to lease, long-term lease agreements, and easements with private landowners.
Site Control Strategy: Execute acquisition strategies to successfully assemble the contiguous acreage footprints required for utility-scale wind assets.
Title & Risk Mitigation: Perform surface title reviews, analyze tract maps, identify encumbrances, and secure mineral non-development or accommodation waivers to protect the project layout.
Community & Stakeholder Relations: Act as the primary face of the project in the field, navigating local community dynamics, agricultural concerns, and public permitting requirements.
Experience: Field landman experience with a documented track record in utility-scale wind or solar land acquisition.
Regional Expertise: Strong working knowledge of real estate, agricultural land dynamics, and tract mapping in Minnesota and/or the Dakotas.
Technical Skills: Proficient in option and lease negotiation, contract structuring, title curative work, and reviewing GIS/mapping data.
Logistics: Field-based, on-site position based out of Fargo, ND and the surrounding areas, requiring daily regional travel to target project locations. Reliable transportation suitable for field travel is required.
Purple Land Management, Overdrive Powered by ESRI®, is a full-service land management firm skilled at handling everything from title and leasing, due diligence and opinion certification to right-of-way acquisition, surveying and surface operations.
We believe that standards can always be raised. That’s why we work so hard to give our clients – energy producers, mid-stream operators, mobile service providers, engineering firms and municipal and state agencies – more than they expect. That means we demand a lot from ourselves. It means we are always looking for new approaches, new perspectives, and new ideas to help us be better at what we do. And it means that every day, for every project, we push ourselves to exceed goals, elevate service and deliver results – not just for our clients, but also for our communities and our country.
The Purple Way is about going above and beyond. Pushing the limits of what’s possible. Give more than you take. For our clients, it means we’re committed to being incredibly accurate, extremely efficient and doggedly results-oriented. For our communities, it means helping create jobs and stimulate the economy. For our country, it means being passionate about the domestic energy cause and working tirelessly to help reduce our dependence on foreign energy resources.
Our Mission:
Purple Land Management's mission is threefold: to hire the naturally ambitious and provide ongoing education outreach, to execute projects with the highest quality of excellence and detail, and to establish working relationships that give more than they take.
