Griffin Investments Land Technician

Description

A Land Technician at Griffin Investments helps drive the Ideal Team Player culture.

About Griffin Investments: Griffin Investments is a privately held investment company established to build and manage a diversified portfolio of tangible assets alongside its affiliated operating company, Griffin Media. As Oklahoma’s largest media company, Griffin Media includes six television stations, five radio stations, digital billboards, and online news platforms that reach audiences statewide. Griffin Investments manages a diversified portfolio with a primary focus on acquiring and operating oil and gas mineral and royalty interests across key U.S. basins. We deploy disciplined capital, source off-market opportunities, and apply rigorous title diligence to build a lean, high-performing ownership platform that delivers stable cash flow and long-term value. The Land Technician ensures accuracy and integrity across ownership records, revenue decks, and back-office systems.

Job Summary: The Land Technician supports land operations by managing title, ownership, and portfolio data for Griffin’s mineral assets. This role connects acquisition diligence with ongoing asset management - ensuring ownership is properly documented, tracked, and monetized while driving system accuracy and process efficiency. The Land Technician reports directly to the Director of Investments.

Job Responsibilities:

• Maintain and update the master ownership database, including deeds, assignments, conveyances, division orders, and production data.
• Conduct chain-of-title research and curative work, coordinating courthouse filings, digital retrievals, and resolution of title defects.
• Support asset onboarding by validating new acquisitions and ensuring all documentation is accurate and recorded promptly.
• Manage GIS and land system data—linking legal descriptions, spacing units, wellbores, and operator information.
• Monitor operator activity and communications; track permits, completions, and ownership changes.
• Assist with revenue and suspense resolution by reviewing division orders, statements, and payment discrepancies.
• Develop and refine operating procedures, onboarding checklists, and quality-control workflows to enhance efficiency and accuracy.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned, including driving an automobile for company business.

Job Schedule: This is a full-time position primarily working 40 hours per week. You may also be called upon at times to fill in other hours and days of the week to help cover vacations, illnesses, or special projects/events. This position may be eligible to work remotely on occasion and at the discretion of the supervisor.

Qualifications

Essential Qualities:

• Humble: A habit of sharing successes, putting the team first, and working for the good of the team. A “we” not “me” attitude. The ability to give and receive constructive criticism. Observe and employ the Golden Rule.
• Hungry: Exhibit a strong work ethic, drive, and willingness to take initiative.
• Smart (People Smart): The virtue of being interpersonally smart about the interactions and relationships of those you encounter.
• Positive Attitude: Exhibited by focusing on opportunities not problems, see the glass as half-full not half-empty.
• Sense of Urgency: How we react and respond.

Skills and Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree preferred. 
• 5 years of oil and gas land administration or mineral title experience.
• Strong understanding of deeds, assignments, pooling orders, unitization, probate, and curative processes.
• Proficiency with land and royalty systems (Enverus, MineralSoft, MineralWare, or similar) and GIS data management.
• Advanced Excel skills and attention to detail across large datasets.
• Highly organized, deadline-driven, adaptable and comfortable managing multiple assets.
• Strong communicator with the ability to coordinate across acquisitions, finance, legal, county clerks, and third-party partners.
• Self-starter with a process-improvement mindset
• Must have, or be able to obtain, a valid Oklahoma driver’s license and have a driving record acceptable to the company.
• Ability to perform other job-related duties as assigned.
• Capable of handling the physical and mental requirements including:
  • ability to verbally communicate in English
  • ability to read computer monitor information (words and data)
  • ability to hear detailed spoken word
  • ability to remain sedentary and to travel to work location
  • ability to perform manual dexterity tasks with hands, fingers
  • ability to analyze data, concentrate, reason, and write
  • ability to perform under emotional stress
  • ability to lift 10 pounds unaided

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.