Real Estate Manager

Company Overview

Blue Energy’s mission is to unlock energy abundance, energy affordability, energy security, and turn-key decarbonization by developing the fastest path to deploying new nuclear MWs at scale. We are utilizing shipyard manufacturing supply chains and techniques from offshore oil and wind to reduce the cost of nuclear plants by over 60% and the manufacturing timeline to 24 months. Blue Energy is a platform technology that makes use of the latest NRC-approved reactors and is in negotiations with existing nuclear and industrial sites, enabling a much faster regulatory pathway to deploy our first unit. With our innovative centralized shipyard manufacturing approach, we can put nuclear power on a cost-reduction learning curve akin to wind, solar, and lithium-ion batteries.

Role Summary

The Real Estate Manager will own and execute Blue Energy’s real estate, land control, and title processes across its U.S. gas-to-nuclear and nuclear development portfolio. This role is responsible for securing, structuring, and maintaining site control for complex energy infrastructure projects, with a particular focus on title review, curative actions, encumbrance resolution, and land control structures that meet utility-scale project finance and nuclear regulatory requirements.

The Real Estate Manager will serve as Blue Energy’s subject matter expert on project real estate, working closely with development, origination, licensing, engineering, transmission, and permitting teams to support site evaluation and advancement, ensuring projects are fully de-risked and financeable from early development through construction and operations.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead real estate strategy and site control execution for Blue Energy’s gas and nuclear development portfolio across multiple U.S. markets.

- Manage internal and external site control instruments and commitments, including:

- Lease and purchase options

- Access, easement, and utility agreements

- Work with real estate counsel to conduct detailed title and survey review, including identification and resolution of:

- Title defects

- Encroachments

- Restrictive covenants

- Mineral rights and subsurface conflicts

- Easements, rights-of-way, and third-party use rights

- Lead and manage title curative activities, coordinating with:

- Outside counsel

- Title companies

- Surveyors

- Land agents

- Local stakeholders and landowners

- Ensure land control structures satisfy requirements for:

- Project finance and lender diligence

- Long-term operations and decommissioning

- NRC licensing, security, and emergency planning needs

- Support early-stage site screening by assessing real estate feasibility, ownership complexity, acreage adequacy, access constraints, and fatal flaws.

- Coordinate real estate diligence deliverables, including boundary surveys and title commitments.

- Develop internal real estate standards, templates, and processes to support scalable project development.

- Manage external consultants and vendors to control real estate cost, schedule, and risk across multiple projects.

- Support transactions through financial close by responding to lender, investor, and counterparty diligence requests related to real estate and title.

Qualifications

- 5-7+ years of professional experience in real estate, land acquisition, title, or development for utility-scale energy, infrastructure, or industrial projects.

- Demonstrated experience with:

- Title review and curative work

- Complex ownership structures

- Long-term ground leases and easements

- Strong understanding of real estate requirements for large-scale energy generation projects, including lender and investor expectations.

- Working knowledge of survey standards (ALTA/NSPS), title insurance, and common curative mechanisms.

- Proven ability to manage multiple projects and counterparties simultaneously in a fast-moving development environment.

- Strong communication skills and ability to translate real estate risk into clear development and commercial implications.

Preferred Qualifications

- Familiarity with real estate considerations specific to nuclear, brownfield, or heavy industrial sites.

- Experience negotiating real estate agreements with utilities, ports, municipalities, or public entities.

- Experience coordinating with legal teams on complex real estate documentation.

We look forward to your application and helping foster an era of safe, clean, affordable, and abundant energy.

Blue Energy is dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t perfectly align with every requirement, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might be the right candidate for this or other roles at Blue Energy now or in the future.