Real Estate Data Specialist - #262778

Are we the road to your future?

Volkert is employee owned and a Top 100 design firm, committed to providing clients with creative solutions for sustainability, including improvements to infrastructure, the environment, and natural resources. Founded in 1925, Volkert is celebrating a century of serving our employees, clients, partners, and communities.

We are currently searching for a highly motivated Real Estate Data Specialist to join our West Gulf Region in our Shreveport, LA office.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Setting up and maintaining all right-of-way files (physical and electronic),
• Continual project data entry
• Documentation of all special conditions
• Preparation and production of easements
• Payment schedules
• Informational letters or packets
• Other documents
• Responsible for data maintenance of projects:
• Generating accurate reports
• Data merges to external documents using mail merge capabilities
• Performing quality control checks
• Peer data reviews
• Prepare and review reports involving
• Ownership information
• Status of acquisition processes
• Special conditions
• Contacts with Right-of-Way Agents and landowners
• Payments made
• Damage settlements
• Other pertinent data
• Review legal documents to ensure that all have been properly executed and notarized
• Review check requests for accuracy and proper paperwork
• Prepare checks
• Replenishment requests
• Maintain ledger
• Complete reconciliation reports
• Any other duties required for the maintenance of a client escrow account
• Maintain document tracking system for all legal documents
• Prepare and send for recording
• Ensure all pages and exhibits are correct and accounted for
• Ensure the documents are properly notarized and executed by all necessary parties
• Perform internal and external project closeout duties
• Database quality checks and updates
• Document uploads
• Ensure all missing data is accounted for and entered/uploaded to internal and external database systems
  

What You Need To Have

• Experience in the Real Estate or Utility industry
• Real Estate legal experience highly preferred
• Ability to read and interpret title commitments and right of way plats/plans
• Experience with Microsoft Office Products
• Exceptionally detail-oriented
• Excellent data entry skills and proficiency to learn new systems and processes
• Excellent time management skills
• Excellent organizational skills
• Ability to pass a pre-employment drug screening to ensure a safe and productive work environment. Volkert adheres to federal guidelines, which may include testing for substances such as marijuana. Please note that federal regulations may differ from state-specific guidelines.
• Characteristics of a successful Volkert team member:
• Be a brand ambassador for the company who engages in diversity and inclusion,
• Be self-motivated to meet individual goals and maintain accountability in a team environment
• Exercise initiative and independent judgment in the solution of work problems
• Be able to communicate effectively- verbal and written
• Be able to multi-task in a team environment
  
  

Volkert Perks

• Competitive compensation
• Flexibility and a positive work/life balance
• Challenging and innovative projects
• Employee referral program
• Professional development
• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
• 401(k) retirement savings plan + employer matching
• Paid Time Off (PTO) and holidays
• Medical, Dental, & Vision
• Employer-Paid Life/AD&D insurance
• Employer-Paid short-term disability and long-term disability
• Wellness incentives
• Additional voluntary benefits
  
  

The words from our Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Thomas A. Hand, PE, capture best how you can make an impact while working for Volkert.

“ For a century, Volkert has done meaningful work that improves our infrastructure and quality of life throughout our communities. We are proud of our one-hundred-year legacy and humbled by the opportunities ahead of us as we look forward to our next century of service. With our commitment to employee ownership and sustainable growth, you can build a career here that really makes a difference .”

– Thomas A. Hand, PE, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer

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Volkert does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies or fee-based recruitment services.

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