Remote Land Manager Jobs
Remote land manager jobs are open across the U.S. in energy, natural resources, real estate, and infrastructure, at companies ranging from independent operators and renewable energy developers to large distributed teams managing land rights and acquisition pipelines. Employers hiring remotely right now include SpaceX, Atwell, and Bohler. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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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 manager jobs.
- Bachelor's degree in business, law, natural resources, or a related field
- Experience negotiating and drafting oil and gas or surface-use agreements
- Proficiency with land management software such as Quorum or WolfePak
- Knowledge of title examination, curative processes, and mineral ownership research
- Registered Professional Landman (RPL) or Registered Landman (RL) certification preferred
- Familiarity with right-of-way acquisition, permitting, and regulatory compliance
Tips for Your Remote Land Manager Job Search
Show async communication skills upfront
Remote land managers communicate title status, lease negotiations, and project updates entirely in writing. Include clear examples in your resume and cover letter of complex land issues you resolved through written reports, emails, or documentation without in-person meetings.
Highlight your GIS and land software proficiency
Remote employers can't watch you work, so they screen for named tools. Call out your experience with GIS platforms, land management software, and any title or right-of-way databases you've used independently to move projects forward without on-site support.
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote land manager openings from across the U.S. in one place, so you can find roles that match your sector and experience level and apply directly without sorting through unrelated postings.
Demonstrate independent project ownership
Remote hiring managers want proof you can carry a land project from curative title work through closing without daily check-ins. Describe specific projects on your resume where you managed all phases autonomously, including the states or regions involved and the outcome.
Remote Land Manager Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote land manager job?
Remote land managers are hired most often by renewable energy developers, oil and gas companies with distributed field operations, and real estate firms managing large portfolios across multiple states. Employers screen for self-direction, clear written communication, and comfort with async workflows. Proficiency in GIS tools, land management software, and experience closing title or lease agreements without in-person oversight gives candidates a clear edge.
Which companies hire remote land managers?
Remote land manager roles are posted by SpaceX, Atwell, and Bohler and others right now, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These tend to be remote-first energy firms, distributed natural resources companies, and real estate organizations that manage land rights across wide geographies and don't require managers to be on-site full time.
Can you get a remote land manager job with no experience?
Yes, but remote entry-level land manager roles are harder to land because employers expect you to work independently with minimal hand-holding from day one. Smaller renewable energy developers and independent oil and gas operators are more likely to hire entry-level candidates remotely. Demonstrating GIS skills, title research ability, or completed coursework in land management can substitute for direct field experience.
Do you need a degree for remote land manager jobs?
Not always. Many remote employers weigh demonstrated skills, software proficiency, and a record of completed land transactions over formal credentials. That said, a degree in natural resources, real estate, or a related field strengthens your application at larger companies. Professional certifications in land management can also carry meaningful weight when a degree is absent.
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