Remote Director of Land Development Jobs
Remote director of land development jobs are open across residential homebuilding, master-planned community development, and land acquisition at companies running fully distributed teams. Employers hiring remotely right now include Atwell, Bohler, and V3 Companies. Scan the live roles below and apply to whichever ones fit.
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Join the Clean Energy Revolution
Become a Civil Engineering (Land Development) Manager at Southern California Edison (SCE) and help deliver the site infrastructure needed to expand, modernize, and maintain California’s electric grid. In this role, you will lead the civil engineering team responsible for land development and site civil support for transmission lines, substations, rights-of-way, access roads, and related facilities. The team’s work includes grading and drainage, hydrology and stormwater compliance, roadway and access design, erosion control, utility coordination, agency permitting, geotechnical interfaces, constructability support, and civil support during construction and emergency response. You will set priorities across a diverse portfolio, develop engineers, manage consultant support, and partner with Project Management, Environmental, Real Properties, Construction, Operations, Transmission Engineering, and Substation Engineering. The successful candidate will combine people leadership with practical site-development judgment and the ability to deliver safe, constructible, cost-effective solutions across SCE’s service territory.
Responsibilities
- Leads a select set of engineering and business initiatives to develop grid strategies, determine how the grid is planned, designed, operated, and maintained to operationalize company's strategy.
- Develops and maintains a project portfolio management system to prioritize projects, allocate resources, and monitor performance.
- Evaluates new technologies and methodologies to enhance project efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and sustainability, designing and implementing improvement projects and new systems to support site initiatives and improve operational efficiency.
- Establishes and maintains relationships with external partners, vendors, and contractors to support project delivery and innovation.
- Coaches engineering teams on professional development opportunities to enhance their skills and knowledge.
- Leads the development and implementation of a comprehensive strategy, technology and safety program to ensure company advancement toward future vision and the well-being of employees and contractors involved in engineering projects.
- Manages the engineering team that provides emergent and routine trouble-shooting support for plant technical needs. Manages various contract engineers and works with those individuals to ensure consistency and quality in design, delivery milestone dates, and cost.
- Leads the design and implementation of new equipment and cost-effective equipment modifications to help improve safety, reliability, and throughput.
- Develops goals for engineering team and assigns projects/roles to employees that translate Sr. Manager levels goals into actionable tasks.
- 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 combined experience performing or supervising engineering work.
- Experience in operations, production, construction or maintenance environments.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Civil Engineering or a related engineering discipline.
- California Professional Engineer (PE) license in Civil Engineering, or the ability to obtain one through comity.
- Experience leading and developing civil engineering teams, including establishing engineering standards, improving work processes, and mentoring engineers
- Civil land-development or site-development experience involving grading, drainage, hydrology, stormwater, erosion control, access roads, paving, or utility coordination.
- Experience supporting electric utility transmission, substation, distribution, rights-of-way, or other large infrastructure projects.
- Experience managing engineering consultants, contract resources, scopes of work, budgets, schedules, deliverables, and quality expectations.
- Experience coordinating with California agencies and permitting authorities, including knowledge of CEQA, stormwater compliance, and environmental permitting requirements.
- Experience using or overseeing work performed with AutoCAD Civil 3D, GIS applications, hydrologic or hydraulic analysis tools, and related civil engineering software.
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.
- Visit our Candidate Resource page to get meaningful information related to benefits, perks, resources, testing information, hiring process, and more!
- 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.
- Position will require up to 10% traveling and being out in the field throughout the SCE service territory.
- This position has been identified as a NERC/CIP impacted position - Prior to being hired, the successful candidate must pass a Personnel Risk Assessment (PRA) or Background Investigation. Once hired, the candidate must complete specified training prior to gaining un-escorted access to assigned work location and performing necessary job duties.
About Southern California Edison
The people at SCE don't just keep the lights on. Our mission is so much bigger. We’re fueling the kind of innovation that’s changing an entire industry, and quite possibly the planet. Join us and create a future with cleaner energy, while providing our customers with the safety and reliability they demand. At SCE, you’ll have a chance to grow personally and professionally, making a real impact in Southern California and around the world.
Southern California Edison is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status.
We are committed to ensuring that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodations at AskHR@sce.com or (626) 302-3456 and select option 2.
Nearest Major Market: Los Angeles
Join the Clean Energy Revolution
Become a Civil Engineering (Land Development) Manager at Southern California Edison (SCE) and help deliver the site infrastructure needed to expand, modernize, and maintain California’s electric grid. In this role, you will lead the civil engineering team responsible for land development and site civil support for transmission lines, substations, rights-of-way, access roads, and related facilities. The team’s work includes grading and drainage, hydrology and stormwater compliance, roadway and access design, erosion control, utility coordination, agency permitting, geotechnical interfaces, constructability support, and civil support during construction and emergency response. You will set priorities across a diverse portfolio, develop engineers, manage consultant support, and partner with Project Management, Environmental, Real Properties, Construction, Operations, Transmission Engineering, and Substation Engineering. The successful candidate will combine people leadership with practical site-development judgment and the ability to deliver safe, constructible, cost-effective solutions across SCE’s service territory.
Responsibilities
- Leads a select set of engineering and business initiatives to develop grid strategies, determine how the grid is planned, designed, operated, and maintained to operationalize company's strategy.
- Develops and maintains a project portfolio management system to prioritize projects, allocate resources, and monitor performance.
- Evaluates new technologies and methodologies to enhance project efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and sustainability, designing and implementing improvement projects and new systems to support site initiatives and improve operational efficiency.
- Establishes and maintains relationships with external partners, vendors, and contractors to support project delivery and innovation.
- Coaches engineering teams on professional development opportunities to enhance their skills and knowledge.
- Leads the development and implementation of a comprehensive strategy, technology and safety program to ensure company advancement toward future vision and the well-being of employees and contractors involved in engineering projects.
- Manages the engineering team that provides emergent and routine trouble-shooting support for plant technical needs. Manages various contract engineers and works with those individuals to ensure consistency and quality in design, delivery milestone dates, and cost.
- Leads the design and implementation of new equipment and cost-effective equipment modifications to help improve safety, reliability, and throughput.
- Develops goals for engineering team and assigns projects/roles to employees that translate Sr. Manager levels goals into actionable tasks.
- 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 combined experience performing or supervising engineering work.
- Experience in operations, production, construction or maintenance environments.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Civil Engineering or a related engineering discipline.
- California Professional Engineer (PE) license in Civil Engineering, or the ability to obtain one through comity.
- Experience leading and developing civil engineering teams, including establishing engineering standards, improving work processes, and mentoring engineers
- Civil land-development or site-development experience involving grading, drainage, hydrology, stormwater, erosion control, access roads, paving, or utility coordination.
- Experience supporting electric utility transmission, substation, distribution, rights-of-way, or other large infrastructure projects.
- Experience managing engineering consultants, contract resources, scopes of work, budgets, schedules, deliverables, and quality expectations.
- Experience coordinating with California agencies and permitting authorities, including knowledge of CEQA, stormwater compliance, and environmental permitting requirements.
- Experience using or overseeing work performed with AutoCAD Civil 3D, GIS applications, hydrologic or hydraulic analysis tools, and related civil engineering software.
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.
- Visit our Candidate Resource page to get meaningful information related to benefits, perks, resources, testing information, hiring process, and more!
- 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.
- Position will require up to 10% traveling and being out in the field throughout the SCE service territory.
- This position has been identified as a NERC/CIP impacted position - Prior to being hired, the successful candidate must pass a Personnel Risk Assessment (PRA) or Background Investigation. Once hired, the candidate must complete specified training prior to gaining un-escorted access to assigned work location and performing necessary job duties.
About Southern California Edison
The people at SCE don't just keep the lights on. Our mission is so much bigger. We’re fueling the kind of innovation that’s changing an entire industry, and quite possibly the planet. Join us and create a future with cleaner energy, while providing our customers with the safety and reliability they demand. At SCE, you’ll have a chance to grow personally and professionally, making a real impact in Southern California and around the world.
Southern California Edison is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status.
We are committed to ensuring that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodations at AskHR@sce.com or (626) 302-3456 and select option 2.
Nearest Major Market: Los Angeles
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote director of land development jobs.
- Bachelor's degree in civil engineering, urban planning, real estate, or a related field
- 7 or more years of land development or land acquisition experience
- Proven experience managing entitlement and permitting processes across multiple jurisdictions
- Proficiency with land acquisition software, feasibility models, and project scheduling tools
- Strong relationships with municipal planners, engineers, and local government officials
- Experience overseeing due diligence, site analysis, and development agreements from contract through close
Tips for Your Remote Director of Land Development Job Search
Document your entitlement wins asynchronously
Remote employers can't observe your process, so build a written deal log that shows entitlement timelines, approval outcomes, and feasibility decision points. Include it as a supplemental document with your application to prove you can manage complex land pipelines without in-person oversight.
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote director of land development openings from across the country in one place, so you can find roles matched to your experience and apply directly without sorting through non-remote listings.
Show fluency with remote project coordination tools
Distributed land development teams run on platforms like Procore, Smartsheet, and Bluebeam for plan review and milestone tracking. Naming these tools in your resume and describing how you've used them to coordinate with consultants, municipalities, and engineers signals you're ready for async collaboration.
Prepare for async-heavy remote interviews
Many remote hiring processes include written take-home exercises such as site feasibility memos or due diligence summaries. Practice presenting land analysis decisions in tight written form, since remote employers use these exercises to judge both your technical judgment and your written communication under real conditions.
Remote Director of Land Development Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote director of land development job?
Target homebuilders, land investment firms, and regional developers that operate distributed teams across multiple markets, since those organizations are most likely to hire this role remotely. Remote employers screen heavily for self-directed project management, strong written communication for async stakeholder updates, and demonstrated fluency with entitlement tracking, feasibility modeling, and due diligence documentation. Candidates who can show a portfolio of closed land deals managed without daily in-office oversight stand out most.
Which companies hire remote director of land developments?
Employers currently hiring remote director of land developments include Atwell, Bohler, and V3 Companies, per current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These tend to be national homebuilders, private equity-backed land funds, and regional developers that manage acquisition pipelines across multiple geographies using distributed leadership teams.
Can you get a remote director of land development job with no experience?
Yes, but remote director-level roles are rare for candidates without prior land development experience, since you'll need to manage complex entitlement and acquisition processes independently from day one. Entry paths include remote land acquisition manager or senior land analyst roles at distributed firms, where you can demonstrate due diligence skills and cross-functional coordination. Showing completed feasibility studies, entitlement timelines, or contract negotiations strengthens a remote application considerably.
Do you need a degree for remote director of land development jobs?
Not always. Many remote employers prioritize a verifiable history of closed land transactions, entitlement approvals, and feasibility analysis over a specific degree. That said, backgrounds in civil engineering, urban planning, real estate, or business administration are common among competitive candidates. What remote hiring teams weigh most is evidence you can manage a full land pipeline, communicate progress in writing, and hit project milestones without constant oversight.
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