Senior Land Agent - IL; LA; OK, TX in Houston, Texas at DT Midstream Inc

At DT Midstream, we've got the energy to achieve great things! DT Midstream owns and operates a diverse, integrated portfolio of midstream pipeline, storage and gathering assets, allowing us to provide a comprehensive set of midstream services to our customers across the Southern, Northeastern and Midwestern United States and into Canada. Our newly independent public company is an energy industry leader with more than 20 years of proven success as part of DTE Energy and our focus is to be safe, caring, dependable and efficient in all we do.

Locations: Channahon, IL; Grand Cane, LA; Tulsa, OK; Houston, TX

Job Summary

The Senior Land Agent serves as a lead company liaison with landowners, contractors, other companies, and federal, state, and local governmental agencies to support the company’s ongoing Midstream projects. Responsible overseeing negotiations of pipeline, right of ways, leases, and fee property acquisitions, settling damage claims, managing contract staff, and other responsibilities as assigned.

Key Accountabilities

• Serve as a team lead for all land agents, associate land agents and senior land agents positions.
• Oversees negotiations of pipeline rights of ways, easement, leases, access roads, and fee property acquisitions.
• Manages contract staff on day to day operations and reviews invoices.
• Track land acquisitions metrics to include financial tracking and performance.
• Assesses and settles damage claims, problems, or inquiries while representing the company in a positive manner.
• Coordinates activities connected with real property interests throughout the life cycle of a project.
• Coordinates with GIS for the preparation of exhibit drawings.
• Acts as a company liaison with landowners, other companies, and governmental agencies at the federal, state, and local levels as required to support project requirements.
• Drafts a variety of land related business agreements.
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

• Requires the ability to travel, occasionally with little to no notice.
• May be required to work non-standard working hours.
• 50% travel

Minimum Education & Experience Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Real Estate, Business, PLM, Energy Commerce or other related discipline
• Minimum of 5 years’ land related oil and gas experience or in lieu of a degree significant land experience
• Possess & maintain a valid driver’s license

Other Qualifications

• IRWA and/or AAPL membership(s)
• Leadership experience

Other Requirements

• Strong working knowledge of land and real property matters, including oil and gas, legal descriptions, basic title regulations, legal terminology, basic real property law and the ability to read and understand contracts and agreements.
• Demonstrates land negotiating principles, including theories and concepts
• Ability to work in a team environment to accomplish organizational goals, meet, and exceed deadlines
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize
• Empathetic, even tempered, with excellent interpersonal ‘people’ skills
• Ability to communicate effectively in speech and writing with members at all levels throughout the organization, outside professionals, customers and contractors.
• Ability to effectively use a computer with MS Office Suite and related applications

(Word, Excel, Outlook and SAP).

Physical Demands

The physical demands must be met to properly perform the functions of the role. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. To properly perform the integral functions of this job, the employee is required to sit, stand, walk, stoop, kneel, reach, talk, hear, grasp and carry objects.

The employee in this classification will be required to frequently lift objects of up to 10 pounds in weight. Vision requirements for this position include close vision and the ability to adjust focus.

Working Conditions

While performing the duties of this job, the employee usually works in a business office or other appropriate location during hybrid days, with a moderate noise level. Requires ability to travel, occasionally with little to no notice. May be required to work non-standard hours.