Land Entitlement Manager

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Land Entitlement Manager

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Job Description

David Weekley Homes is hiring a Land Entitlement Manager to join our Raleigh team!

This person will collaborate with the Raleigh Land Acquisition Managers in support of the growth, profitability and vision of David Weekley Homes.

Job Responsibilities

Entitlement Activities

• Coordinate the entitlements and due diligence of multiple residential projects, including zoning and rezoning approvals, development agreements, preliminary plan approvals, site civil construction documents, development permits, dry utility plan coordination, and recording plats.
• Facilitate the community planning process, including site analysis, yield studies, land planning, landscape design, signage, and monumentation, amenity programming and planning, and common open space planning.
• Develop and maintain positive professional relationships with officials and employees of municipalities and agencies with jurisdictional control over community land development in the Greater Raleigh area.
• Assist with the coordination, engagement, and management of all consultants, including Civil Engineer, Landscape Architect, Environmental, and Geotechnical Engineer, HOA consultants, with Division Land Acquisition Managers.
• Coordinate Due Diligence related to the entitlements of all proposed land acquisitions.
• Serve as liaison to all municipal and agency officials, and other trade partners, in the execution of planning and entitlement tasks.
• Manage scopes of work and compliance with schedule for consultants for all planning and entitlement tasks.
• Assist with troubleshooting and resolutions of entitlement issues and conditions prior to and during land development.
• Utilize existing HOA/CCR templates for community specific approval and use.
• Interact with internal and external legal counsel.
  
  

Development Activities

• Work interactively with Land Acquisition Managers with strategic thinking about feasibility of potential land purchases, land planning ideas, pre-planning, and development cost info during the conceptual and planning phases of communities.
  
  

Qualifications

• 3 – 5 years of relevant experience in residential development and building industry, preferably in the Raleigh metro area.
• Bachelor’s degree in finance, engineering, real estate, urban planning, or other related field.
• Familiarity of reading and understanding civil engineering construction documents.
• Proficient in Microsoft applications including Word, Excel, and Project.
• Comfortable with financial proformas and modeling.
• Excellent people skills, as well as verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong project management skills.
• Ability to schedule and manage numerous professional consultants efficiently and effectively.
  
  

Ideal Candidate Will Possess These Characteristics

• Team player who can balance important relationships and high achievement.
• Considerable initiative and ability to start and drive the process.
• Ability to balance multiple and competing priorities.
• Driven to press for results with measured sense of urgency.
• Ability to see global picture while maintaining focus on daily details that result in a successfully developed and completed community.
• Ability to influence numerous external people to place your priorities first, with tempered assertiveness.
• Ability to determine order of priorities.
• Professional demeanor with a persistent and positive attitude.
  
  

Additional Information

What We Offer

Come build your future with our winning team, recognized by Fortune Magazine as one of the "100 Best Companies to Work For" 19 times! David Weekley Homes builds in 19 markets across the U.S. and is one of the largest private home builders in America.

We Offer An Excellent Benefits Package That Includes

• Health Insurance - Medical, Dental and Vision
• 401k and discretionary 8% match
• Employee Stock Ownership Plan
• Profit Sharing
• Vacation, Paid Holidays, plus PTO
• New Home Discount for Team Member and Family
• College Scholarship Program
• Community Outreach
• Sabbaticals
• And more!
  
  

David Weekley Homes is an Equal Opportunity Employer (https://careers.davidweekleyhomes.com/eeo) , and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any status protected by state or federal law.

Note to Job Seekers: No telephone calls or walk-ins please. Interviews are by appointment only. Your resume will be reviewed and qualified candidates may be contacted in the event of a potential job match, or if further information is needed.

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