Remote Land Development Manager Jobs
Remote land development manager jobs are in active demand across the U.S., with remote-first firms and distributed real estate, homebuilding, and infrastructure teams bringing on experienced managers who can drive entitlement, due diligence, and project coordination without being tied to a single office. 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 land development manager jobs.
- Bachelor's degree in civil engineering, urban planning, or a related field
- 5 or more years of experience managing land entitlement and permitting processes
- Proficiency in reading and interpreting civil engineering plans and plat maps
- Demonstrated experience coordinating with local planning, zoning, and public works agencies
- Strong knowledge of subdivision regulations, environmental review processes, and grading concepts
- Proficiency with project management tools and GIS or mapping software
Tips for Your Remote Land Development Manager Job Search
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote land development manager openings from across the U.S. in one place, so you can find roles that match your background and apply directly without sorting through unrelated listings. Apply as soon as a role goes live, since remote openings in this field close fast.
Prove you can manage projects asynchronously
Remote land development employers want to see that you can keep entitlement timelines, due diligence checklists, and municipal coordination moving without daily check-ins. Document specific examples where you managed a project phase independently and communicated progress in writing across a distributed team.
Show fluency with remote land development tools
Call out your hands-on experience with Bluebeam, GIS platforms, cloud-based project management software, and digital document routing in your application materials. Remote employers in this role screen for tool fluency early because on-site workarounds aren't available when you're not in the office.
Prepare for async-first remote interviews
Many distributed land development teams use video interviews, written take-home questions, or recorded screening steps before a live call. Practice walking through a project, from site acquisition through entitlement, clearly and concisely on camera so your process reads well without in-person context.
Remote Land Development Manager Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote land development manager job?
Target remote-first homebuilders, land acquisition firms, and infrastructure developers that run distributed project teams rather than office-bound ones. Remote employers in this role screen heavily for self-directed project management, strong written communication across entitlement and municipal workflows, and fluency with tools like Bluebeam, GIS platforms, and cloud-based project tracking. Demonstrating that you can manage agency relationships, due diligence timelines, and cross-functional coordination without daily in-person oversight is what gives candidates a clear edge.
Which companies hire remote land development managers?
Companies hiring remote land development managers right now include Atwell, Bohler, and V3 Companies, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Remote openings in this role tend to come from national homebuilders, distributed land acquisition firms, and real estate development companies that manage projects across multiple markets simultaneously.
Can you get a remote land development manager job with no experience?
Yes, but remote entry-level land development roles are harder to land because employers expect you to work independently from day one with minimal hands-on supervision. Companies most open to junior candidates remotely include smaller regional developers and consulting firms. Showing proficiency with entitlement research, GIS tools, or municipal permitting processes, plus a portfolio of coursework or project-adjacent work, can substitute for direct experience and open the door.
Do you need a degree for remote land development manager jobs?
Not always. Many remote employers in land development weigh demonstrated project management experience, entitlement knowledge, and familiarity with due diligence workflows just as heavily as a formal degree. A background in civil engineering, urban planning, construction management, or real estate is common, but candidates who can show real results managing land projects from acquisition through permitting often compete effectively regardless of their educational path.
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