Role: Asst Manager - Land Acquisition

Location: Solapur,Maharashtra

Reporting line: Head Land

About Employer: One of the MNCs in the energy sector

Role Summary:

The Assistant Manager - Land Acquisition oversees identifying land for renewable energy projects, conducting feasibility assessments, negotiating land purchases, ensuring compliance, obtaining approvals, managing stakeholders, coordinating inter-departmental efforts, monitoring progress, and reporting to senior management.

Job Responsibilities:

- Wind Project Land Identifying and Site Feasibility Assessment

- Objectives

- Conduct detailed site feasibility analysis for Renewable Energy Projects and identify potential land acquisition opportunities for the construction of upcoming projects.

- Create a land aggregator network for land acquisition in a timeline.

- Coordinate with authorities in respective states for execution of the project and get concurrence for the same.

- Measures

- Number of Title Searches completed on time.

- Number of locations acquired and documents registered in favour of Project SPV.

- Wind Project Land Survey

- Objectives

- Identify WTG Location & Wind Turbine Blade Swing Area & Approach Road and Prepare the KMZ File & Final WTG Location in Field Measurement Book (FMB).

- Land Price Negotiating & PRE ATS-Agreements with Landowners

- Objectives

- Work with Land Aggregators and landowners to negotiate terms, conditions, and pricing of land purchases, ensuring alignment with organisational goals within budget constraints.

- Obtain land records for Title Search Report (TSR) Clearance and execute Pre-Agreement to Sell (ATS) agreement with Landowners.

- Compliance and Project Land Documentation

- Objectives

- Liaison with revenue Officials for surveys of lands, registration, and mutation of land records, etc.

- Obtain approvals for non-agricultural conversion and coordinate with legal consultants and Government agencies for dispute resolution.





- Respond to legal notices, manage litigations

- Draft, review, and execute legal documents and ensure all acquisitions comply with relevant statutes and maintain accurate records and documentation throughout the acquisition process.

- Measures

- Accuracy of legal documents drafted/reviewed.

- No of pending litigation cases related to land acquisition.

- Wind Power Project Land Conversion (NA)

- Objectives

- Obtain all land-related government approvals, including conversion of land use from agricultural to non-agricultural, from the Revenue authority and land conversion approvals from the District Collector/Dy. Collector's office.

- Liaison with Government Agencies

- Objectives

- Coordinate with nodal agencies for various approvals.

- Coordinate and liaise with farmers, Govt departments like Revenue, Tahsil and District Level, Forest, town and State, etc., and maintain connection with the concerned Gram Panchayath, Tahsildar, DC Office, Police Dept.

- Work with the local revenue department for land Verification and documentation.

- Liaison with the Sub-Registration department to execute all the leases and various rights to acquire for Project requirement

- Liaising with the Airport Authority of India to obtain Height Clearance NOC for WTG and MOD, and MNRE to obtain the Defence clearance for the Windfarm Project.

- Conduct measurement for acquired land and obtain construction layout approval fromthe Town Planning Department.

- Measures

- No of approvals/NOCs secured within the planned timeline.





- No of delayed cases due to lack of liaison follow-up.

- Timeliness in completing the land registration process.

- Inter-Departmental Coordination

- Objectives

- Coordinate with nodal agencies for various approvals. Coordinate with, WRA, Business Development, legal, financial, Construction and Project development teams to ensure all acquisitions align with the company’s strategic goals.

- Monitoring and Reporting

- Objectives

- Track status for all the permits and approvals pertaining to revenue authority like NA, Measurement, DTP, AAI and MOD, and keep track on amendment related to Government policies related to land acquisition as well as AAI, MOD permissions.

- Regularly monitor the progress of land acquisition activities and report to senior management, and provide updated project timelines and budgets

- Measures

- Timeliness and accuracy of monthly reports.

- No of missed compliance deadlines.

- Monitoring and Reporting

- Objectives

- Track status for all the permits and approvals pertaining to revenue authority like NA, Measurement, DTP, AAI and MOD, and keep track on amendment related to Government policies related to land acquisition as well as AAI, MOD permissions.

- Regularly monitor the progress of land acquisition activities, report to senior management and provide updated project timelines and budgets

- Measures

- Timeliness and accuracy of monthly reports.

Required Experience:

- Qualification: Graduation in any stream
- Experience: 10 to 12 years
- Knowledge – • Understanding of local and central laws and regulations related to the Land and Renewable Energy sector.
- ICT Skills – • MS Office
- Other Skills – • Robust negotiation skills • Good communication and interpersonal skills • Stakeholder management
- Abilities – • Critical thinking and proactive approach
- Language: English, Hindi, and local language based on project location

📌 Asst Manager - Land Surveyor & Acquisition - Solapur (Maharashtra)
🏢 HRvisory
📍 Maharashtra