Title Manager - Land/ROW

Location: Houston, Texas; projects across the United States. Travel to project sites is expected up to 75% of the time, with most activities performed at field locations.

Salary: USD $97,510.40–$120,000 per year, plus potential eligibility for a discretionary annual bonus.

Company

TRC, a WSP member, is a global consulting environmental and engineering firm serving the power and energy, transportation and infrastructure, environmental, and property and buildings sectors.

What you will do

• Oversee portfolios of land and title projects across the United States while coordinating with project managers, client representatives, and the Director of Field Services.
• Manage project budgets, resource estimates, schedules, forecasts, scope changes, and risk mitigation plans.
• Lead title, acquisition, document, survey, permitting, administrative, and construction-support personnel.
• Review land requirements, develop execution plans, assign work, and ensure compliance with project procedures and reporting standards.
• Identify title issues and deficiencies, coordinate curative actions and condemnation-related reviews with legal teams, and conduct complex negotiations.
• Provide training, coaching, performance feedback, and daily, weekly, and monthly progress reporting.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Real Estate, Business, Management, or a related field.
• 5–7 years of related experience, including at least 3–5 years in a management role.
• Previous experience managing title on a linear project, including required mineral/sub-surface and surface title experience.
• Experience overseeing title for condemnation and working with legal teams on curative needs.
• Ability to interpret and plot legal descriptions, including metes and bounds, boundary descriptions, and section, township, and range descriptions.
• Intermediate or better proficiency with Microsoft Office, Excel, Word, land management systems, online deed and index searches, and shared data platforms.

Nice to have

• Experience with major multistate or multi-segment projects.
• Experience responding to RFPs and writing title-work proposals.
• Previous Title Manager experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and disability insurance for eligible US employees.
• 401(k) plan with traditional and Roth options and company matching.
• Paid time off ranging from 7 to 25 days per year based on status and seniority.
• At least 8 paid holidays annually for full-time employees.
• Paid sick, family, and disability leave in accordance with applicable state law.
• Work includes both office-based activities and field-site assignments, with onsite and remote project teams.