Senior Landman

Summary: The primary responsibility of the Senior Landman is to handle an assigned geographical area of Diamondback Energy's holdings. The Senior Landman will be responsible for the leadership of an asset area and will coordinate with teams and/or technical professionals to ensure the company objectives and goals are met.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Manage complex land assignments
• Make recommendations regarding complex agreements, leases, and contracts
• Provide technical and strategic advice on complex land negotiations
• Review of legal and financial obligations
• Ensure company drill schedule expectations are met within the asset area with all company disciplines
• Manage brokers and attorneys in title and curative matters as appropriate
• Review AFE's for accuracy and clear title for drilling locations
• Due diligence of acquisitions and divestitures
• Provide guidance to support staff and mentorship to fellow landmen

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Energy Management, Petroleum Land Management, Business Administration, or related field
• At least five (5) years of progressive Land experience with at least three (3) of those being in-house
• At least four (4) years of demonstrated experience in Microsoft Office, (i.e. Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook)
• High-level understanding of Land and exploration and production issues
• Strong interpersonal, analytical and communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Permian Basin experience preferred
• Member of AAPL
• Aptitude to apply strategic thinking skills to identify and evaluate logically and creatively various factors that can have a current and future business impact
• Ability to operate both independently and as part of a team
• Demonstrate effective leadership skills
• Possess a strong attention to detail and flexibility regarding workload and priorities while also maintaining commercial awareness and a broader view of a business situation
• Strong organizational and time management skills
• Proven track record of being able to problem solve and think creatively
• Self-starter requiring minimal supervision

Work Authorization:

Diamondback Energy is not currently sponsoring employment visas for this position