Job Description
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Hanwha Renewables, headquartered in Irvine, California, a member of Hanwha Group, a FORTUNE Global 500 firm that is among the eight largest business enterprises in South Korea. Hanwha Renewables designs, builds and manages renewable energy solutions. The company brings a decade of global leadership in renewable energy to North America, combining best-of-world technology, processes, and partnerships to deliver utility-grade energy solutions customized for local energy markets. Hanwha Renewables offers the full spectrum of energy solutions – from power plant development, design, construction, operations, and maintenance. With proven capabilities across the renewable energy value chain, Hanwha Renewables minimizes uncertainty and risk, and helps customers achieve a higher return on their investment in renewable energy.
POSITION OVERVIEW
The Senior Manager of Real Estate is responsible for providing a comprehensive strategy across all US Development for all title and real estate related matters during the development phase of renewable energy projects. Requires high degree of knowledge related to the overall US Development Pipeline and Strategic Development Initiatives.
This position reports to the Director of Real Estate, or another management personnel that the President/Senior Vice President of the Company may designate. This position is remote and working hours are Monday through Friday, from 8:00am to 5:00pm or 9:00am to 6:00pm local time. This position is expected to travel up to 15%.
The employee may be required to perform other job-related duties as requested by management. All duties will be assigned in accordance with applicable laws and company policies.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Responsible for managing all real estate matters for renewable energy projects
- Managing all title matters including preliminary searches, proforma negotiations, and obtaining all required endorsements and policies needed for financial closing.
- Manage all title insurance company relationships
- Commissioning and reviewing ALTA surveys
- Curing all title matters needed for title policy issuance. This includes managing outside resources such as consultants and legal
- Lease preparation and review
- Execution of lease options and purchase options
- Obtain all required easements and crossing agreements with support from project developer
- Assist commercial team perform real estate diligence
- Assist Finance and legal group on real estate diligence
- Prepare real estate data room
- Manage all negotiations with the title company
- Obtain title policy and endorsements
- Obtain all required estoppels, affidavits, or other required documents from debt and equity
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Minimum of ten (10) years of real estate paralegal experience or title company experience
- At least 8 years of experience with title and survey related work (including review of title commitments, negotiation of title policies and title curative work), leasing, and real estate purchase and sale transactions
- Paralegal certificate (or equivalent experience) required
- Experience with real estate development projects, specifically renewable energy projects
- Proficiency in drafting and reviewing real estate and title curative documents
- Experience in reviewing title work and surveys
- Strong organizational, time management, and oral and written communication skills
- High attention to detail
- Ability to prioritize and meet deadlines without sacrificing quality of work product
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively, depending on the situation
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Ability to prioritize and meet deadlines without sacrificing quality of work product
- Proficient in MS Office Products, including Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint
- Bachelor's degree preferred, but not required
- Requires excellent understanding of legal and real estate vocabulary
- Strong organizational, communication and management skills
- Able to demonstrate experience dealing successfully with peers, subordinates, management, and unaffiliated third parties
- Detail oriented, creative, intuitive, accurate, hard-working, and professional
- Highly motivated self-starter, friendly personality, and good team player
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
- Stationary Position: frequently remains stationary up to 90% of the time and sitting up to 8 hours in a day
- Move/Traverse: infrequently bend, stand, stoop and/or walk
- Carry Weight: infrequently carry weight and/or lift objects (light to heavy) weighing up to 10 pounds
- Hearing and Speech: frequently communicates with the ability to hear and talk on a regular basis with employees, coworkers, and all personnel matters; must be able to exchange accurate information in these situations
- Sight: frequent use of sight to detect images on computer, office documents, and office objects near and far
- Climb: occasionally ascends/descends on stairway to get to office upper and lower floors
- Travel: up to 15% as needed
WORK ENVIRONMENT
- Regular professional, office business setting
- Noise level ranges from low to moderate (if in office setting)
- Noise level ranges from moderate to high (if on construction worksite)
COMPENSATION: $160,000 - $180,000 salary
Attention external recruitment firms, we will not accept any unsolicited resumes at this time. Please do not contact any internal member of our company to discuss the position or to solicit candidates.
Hanwha Renewables provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics.
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