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title: 'Right of Way Agent – Groesbeck / Centerville, TX [Field / Courthouse] at Purple Land Management'
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# Right of Way Agent – Groesbeck / Centerville, TX [Field / Courthouse] at Purple Land Management

- **Company:** Purple Land Management
- **Location:** Centerville, TX
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-30
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-31
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/purplelandmgmt/ac58f86a-819a-44cd-8127-fd6383ae0505

## Job description

Purple Land Management (PLM) is seeking an experienced Right-of-Way (ROW) Agent to lead landowner outreach, easement negotiations, and agreement execution for critical infrastructure projects. This role focuses on engaging landowners, building trust, and securing site control to support the successful execution of upcoming project milestones.

## Responsibilities

Surface & Easement Acquisitions

- Locate, contact, and negotiate right-of-way agreements, pipeline easements, surface use agreements (SUAs), temporary workspace agreements (TWA), and road-use permits with private and institutional landowners.
- Review surface ownership reports, title runsheets, and county records across Limestone and Leon Counties to confirm legal ownership and verify execution authority.
- Prepare, present, and execute easement packages, damage releases, and ancillary agreements in compliance with project guidelines and Texas statutory standards.
- Maintain thorough, contemporaneous landowner negotiation records and contact logs within PLM and client tracking databases.

Survey Coordination & Route Staking

- Secure ingress/egress permissions and survey access from landowners ahead of route planning and civil survey crews.
- Serve as the field liaison between civil survey contractors, engineering teams, and landowners, resolving property line discrepancies and routing objections in real time.
- Review preliminary alignment sheets, survey plats, and metes-and-bounds descriptions for accuracy against executed easements and recorded plats.

Construction Liaison & Damage Settlement

- Serve as the frontline project representative during pre-construction, active trenching/clearing, and restoration phases.
- Ensure pipeline construction contractors strictly observe landowner-specific special conditions (fencing, livestock protection, timber salvage, depth of cover, and topsoil preservation).
- Conduct post-construction cleanup walkthroughs, assess crop/timber and property damages, negotiate settlements, and obtain final landowner sign-offs and damage releases.

Required Qualifications

- Industry Experience: Minimum 3–5+ years of active right-of-way (ROW) field acquisition experience in midstream pipelines, gathering systems, or utility infrastructure.
- Licensing / Regulatory: Current Texas Real Estate Commission (TREC) Easement or Right-of-Way (ERW) registration or an active Texas Real Estate Salesperson/Broker License in good standing (mandatory for surface acquisition in Texas).
- Geographic Knowledge: Prior experience navigating title, local landowners, and courthouses in Limestone, Leon, Freestone, Robertson, or surrounding East-Central Texas counties.
- Technical Proficiency: Ability to read and interpret pipeline alignment sheets, route maps, GIS layers, survey plats, and complex legal descriptions. Familiarity with cloud-based land management software (e.g., Landboss, Quorum, Excel).
- Field Readiness: Valid driver’s license, reliable transportation capable of rural lease-road access, and active automobile insurance meeting commercial thresholds.
- Communication: Exceptional interpersonal negotiation, conflict de-escalation, and professional writing capabilities.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Active member of the International Right of Way Association (IRWA) or American Association of Professional Landmen (AAPL).
- SR/WA, R/W-AC, or RL/RPL certification.
- Direct background working on pipeline construction spreads and open-trench installations.

Company Description Purple Land Management, LLC (“Purple”) is one of the nation’s largest tech-enabled providers of land services that negotiates the buying, selling, and leasing of energy rights, determines and cures title, prepares mineral ownership reports, and performs other related services required for all types of energy companies.  Overdrive, Purple’s proprietary software-as-a-service (“SaaS”), allows customers to track lease, well, and contract data in a web-based geographic information system (“GIS”) mapping platform powered by ESRI, a leader in GIS mapping software.  Based in Fort Worth, Texas, and founded in 2010, Purple has the financial support of Satori Capital, a Texas-based multi-strategy investment firm founded upon the principles of conscious capitalism.  Satori’s private equity business partners with leadership teams of companies that operate with a long-term perspective, commit to their mission, and create value for all stakeholders.

## About Purple Land Management

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Purple Land Management provides comprehensive land management services across the U.S. for energy, infrastructure, and renewable projects, powered by a proprietary GIS Overdrive platform.
- **Entity Type**: Private (privately held, no public funding rounds disclosed)
- **Headquarters**: Fort Worth, Texas, United States
- **Founded**: Not publicly available
- **Founders**: Ryan Barnhart (Co-Founder & CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Energy land services (oil & gas, renewables, carbon capture and storage, direct lithium extraction)
- **Target customers**: B2B – energy producers, mid-stream operators, engineering firms, municipal and state agencies, and mobile service providers
- **Mission**: “Give More Than You Take” – committed to accuracy, efficiency, and community impact while reducing dependence on foreign energy resources

## Products & Services
- **Title & Leasing**: Full title examination, curative, lease acquisition, and opinion certification.
- **Due Diligence / A&D**: Transactional due diligence for asset acquisitions and divestitures; the nation’s #1 leader with over $30 billion in asset value reviewed.
- **Right-of-Way Acquisition**: Surface rights, permitting, and easement negotiation for pipelines, transmission lines, and infrastructure.
- **Surveying & Surface Operations**: Field surveys, staking, and ongoing surface management.
- **GIS Overdrive Platform**: Proprietary geospatial tool (powered by ESRI®) that integrates map data, client data, acreage, and accounting for full land department visibility.
- **Direct Lithium Extraction (DLE)**: Land services supporting lithium brine development for renewable energy storage.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Over $30 billion in asset value reviewed (cumulative transactional due diligence)
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: None publicly identified (private ownership)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Employee count ~158 (LinkedIn, as of 2026) – +18.6% year-over-year
  - LinkedIn followers: 8,246 (up 10.5% yearly)
  - Actively hiring across multiple disciplines with a significant increase in job postings (yearly trend +204.8% per third-party data)
  - Expansion into renewable energy, carbon capture, and direct lithium extraction projects

## Competitive Advantages
- **Nationwide footprint**: Hundreds of full-time landmen covering all major U.S. basins, with offices in Texas, Colorado, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.
- **Proprietary technology**: GIS Overdrive platform provides real-time, geospatial visibility and integrates with client systems.
- **Fixed-bid pricing**: Predictable pricing structures for a variety of project types, reducing client risk.
- **Deep domain expertise**: Decades of experience in oil & gas and now extending into renewables and carbon capture; strong heritage in transactional A&D.

## Strategic Focus
- **Growth in renewables & emerging energy**: Actively pursuing opportunities in carbon capture and storage, renewable energy development, and direct lithium extraction.
- **Technology-driven efficiency**: Continuing to enhance the GIS Overdrive platform and leveraging AI in hiring/operations (as noted on careers page).
- **Talent expansion**: Scaling headcount across field, office, and technology roles to meet growing demand in both traditional and new energy sectors.

## Why Work Here
- **Work environment**: Hybrid and remote options available, with local office hubs in multiple states; emphasis on online collaboration and scalable tools.
- **Culture**: “Give More Than We Take” philosophy – the company invests in employee development and community impact. However, third-party employee reviews (e.g., Glassdoor) rate the company 2.7/5, with low scores for work-life balance (2.5), compensation (2.2), culture (2.5), and career growth (2.4) – potential red flags for job seekers.
- **Growth opportunity**: High hiring velocity (yearly job postings up 200%+) suggests ample openings for landmen, title abstractors, project managers, GIS analysts, and executives. Many roles are W-2 or 1099, offering flexible engagement models.
- **Notable perks**: Access to leading ESRI GIS technology, work on high-value energy projects, and a chance to be part of the energy transition.

## Sources
1. [Purple Land Management Website](https://www.purplelandmgmt.com/)  
2. [About Our Company](https://www.purplelandmgmt.com/about)  
3. [Careers on Lever](https://jobs.lever.co/purplelandmgmt)  
4. [Join Us Page](https://www.purplelandmgmt.com/join-us)  
5. [LinkedIn Company Page](https://linkedin.com/company/purplelandmgmt)

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