Project Land Manager – Morgantown, WV (Hybrid)

Purple Land Management is seeking experienced Project Land Managers to lead land services projects across the United States. The role involves managing projects, staffing, budgets, and client communications while ensuring quality deliverables and successful execution of complex land services projects.

Responsibilities:

• Manage multiple land services projects simultaneously from kickoff through final delivery
• Develop project plans, staffing strategies, schedules, budgets, and execution workflows
• Monitor project progress, timelines, budgets, and key performance indicators
• Identify risks, resolve obstacles, and escalate issues when appropriate
• Adjust staffing, priorities, and workflows to ensure project success
• Ensure project deadlines, quality standards, budgets, and client expectations are consistently met
• Serve as the primary point of contact for assigned projects
• Lead client meetings, status updates, and project communications
• Build trusted client relationships through responsiveness, accountability, and execution
• Partner with Directors and leadership to identify opportunities for project expansion and additional services
• Ensure client expectations are clearly communicated and consistently achieved
• Coordinate teams consisting of entry-level, intermediate, senior, and subject matter expert land professionals
• Facilitate communication between field personnel, reviewers, project teams, clients, and leadership
• Provide direction, clarification, prioritization, coaching, and accountability
• Conduct calls, meetings, coaching sessions, and one-on-one conversations as needed to keep projects moving
• Support onboarding, staffing recommendations, and professional development initiatives
• Foster a culture of accountability, responsiveness, teamwork, and continuous improvement
• Provide guidance and support to title, leasing, acquisition, curative, due diligence, GIS, and right-of-way personnel
• Review project scope and ensure teams remain aligned with client requirements
• Assist with complex operational and technical challenges
• Review work product for completeness, consistency, and adherence to project requirements
• Promote quality standards, operational consistency, and best practices across projects

Requirements:

• 5+ years of hands-on land services experience, including title research, leasing, acquisitions, due diligence, curative, right-of-way, GIS, or related land functions
• Direct experience performing land work, not solely managing or supervising those functions
• Demonstrated experience leading projects, teams, client engagements, or operational initiatives
• Proven ability to coordinate resources, manage competing priorities, and deliver projects on schedule
• Strong understanding of project planning, staffing, resource allocation, budgeting, and client management
• Excellent communication, leadership, organizational, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to lead teams consisting of professionals with varying levels of experience and technical expertise
• Experience managing land services projects for energy, infrastructure, telecommunications, renewable energy, carbon capture, or related industries
• Experience supervising landmen, analysts, contractors, reviewers, or project teams
• Familiarity with title, leasing, acquisitions, due diligence, curative, GIS, and right-of-way workflows
• AAPL membership preferred
• RPL, CPL, PMP, or similar professional certifications are a plus
• Bachelor's degree preferred but not required