Acquisition Agent - Wisconsin

Steigerwaldt Land Services, Inc.; La Crosse (WI); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote‑friendly hybrid work model

Job summary

Steigerwaldt Land Services, Inc. seeks an Acquisition/Right of Way Agent in Wisconsin to support landowners and project teams across energy and infrastructure programs. The role blends fieldwork with office tasks to secure rights and permits.

You will negotiate easements, leases, and licenses, travel for site work, and coordinate with stakeholders while building trust and ensuring regulatory compliance.

Qualifications

• Must hold valid Wisconsin and Minnesota real estate licenses (or willingness to obtain).
• Strong negotiation and communication skills.
• Ability to travel up to 50% and work remotely as needed.

Responsibilities

• Support land acquisitions and permitting for energy, infrastructure, and real estate projects.
• Negotiate easements, leases, and licenses with landowners.
• Coordinate meetings with stakeholders and prepare agreement documents.
• Represent the company at public meetings and hearings.
• Provide status updates to project managers and track progress.

Skills

Negotiation

Landowner relations

Travel up to 50%

Microsoft Office

ArcGIS

Google Earth

Communication

Teamwork

Problem solving

Education

Licensed Wisconsin & Minnesota Real Estate Agent

Tools

ArcGIS

Google Earth

Microsoft Office

Job description

Position: Acquisition/Right of Way Agent

Job Type: Full-Time

Location: Wisconsin

Responsibilities

This position resides in our Energy, Infrastructure, and Real Estate Division and will support right-of-way acquisition, land leasing, permitting, and construction support for oil and gas, wind, solar, and transmission areas. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Establishing trust and building the foundation for a long-term positive relationship between the client and landowner.
• Making independent decisions in working with landowners and project stakeholders throughout the duration of the project.
• Coordinating meetings with landowners and appropriate project stakeholders on site or at mutually agreeable locations.
• Negotiating and securing fee titles, easements, leases, licenses, permits and ordinances.
• Estimating areas of potential damage in advance of construction.
• Performing land sales research.
• Explaining project scope, timelines, processes, contracts, financial agreements, and any other pertinent date to the landowner.
• Providing regular status reports to the project managers on the status of land acquisition and permitting tasks assigned.
• Preparing all necessary agreement documents and/or permitting forms that may be necessary for the project.
• Representing the company at public meetings before governmental agencies such as municipalities, zoning boards, townships, and similar organizations.
• Other duties as assigned.

Candidate Profile

You are a supportive and reliable team member that engages in building a great team and work culture. You are driven and motivated to be a part of a successful team and provide high-quality service and results. You show persistence, tenacity, and grit every day, through tough conditions and deadlines with energy and enthusiasm. You are curious and open-minded in exploring solutions and opportunities. You are accountable and a caretaker of resources, people, and company. You thrive working in a fast‑paced, highly driven environment and can adapt quickly to changing conditions and priorities. You must have an adventurous side and enjoy travel.

• Functional & Technical Expertise – Effectiveness at gaining, maintaining, and sharing functional expertise related to the role in the organization, including the specific knowledge, skills, and abilities spelled out in the job description and the incorporation of new technologies for competitive advantage.
• Integrity & High Standards – Effectiveness at maintaining the highest ethical and professional standards and company values while building and maintaining trust through transparency, dependability, and consistency, admitting, and correcting mistakes, and promoting high integrity in others.
• Drive & Initiative – Effectiveness at establishing, pursuing, and attaining stretch goals and an ambitious workload that drive the mission in a way that is vigorous, enthusiastic, persistent, positive, internally motivated, and fast paced.
• Problem Solving – Effectiveness at predicting problems inside and outside of the specified role, recommending solutions that are logical, timely and creative, and taking corrective action in the purview of the role and/or coordinating with others when problems cross role and team boundaries.
• Adaptability – Effectiveness at coping with changing priorities, alterations in workflows and overcoming unexpected barriers while demonstrating a learning mindset, growing from adversity, and recommending changes for the betterment of the organization.
• Communication – Effectiveness in both verbal and written expressions of ideas in a clear, concise, and grammatically correct manner, ensuring that all messages are both professional and precise in all media while proactively fostering two‑way communications with colleagues and customers.
• Interpersonal Savvy – Effectiveness at interacting respectfully and positively with colleagues, outside partners, and audiences, demonstrating and developing emotional intelligence, being approachable, earning likability, seeking to understand differences of opinion and perspective, disagreeing respectfully, and solving conflict proactively.
• Teamwork – Effectiveness at working on a team, not just as an individual contributor, by proactively engaging with team members, sharing resources, responding to requests, providing data and ideas, collaborating on tasks and projects, delivering on promises dependably, and actively helping others achieve their individual goals as well as overall team goals.
• Customer Service – Effectiveness at building and maintaining customer relationships by finding and attending to customer needs and expectations within company parameters, reporting up customer needs and expectations, and delighting customers with the results they get and how they are achieved.
• Work Management – Effectiveness at getting and staying organized, planning the work on the immediate horizon, staying focused on the highest priorities, using essential technologies, generating documentation, meeting goals and deadlines, using time and all resources efficiently, and following policies and procedures.

Preferred Skills

• Preferred – 2 plus years of experience in Right‑of‑Way acquisition, real estate sales, negotiating leases, renewable development, or equivalent related experiences.
• Previous Right‑of‑Way or real estate project experience is a plus.
• Attention to detail is a must.
• Ability to perform legal document search and title review.
• Licensed Wisconsin & Minnesota Real Estate Agent (or willingness to get licensed).
• Ability to work independently in varied and remote settings, both in the field and with clients and other professionals.
• Superior written and oral communication skills.
• Competent with Microsoft Office software.
• Solid understanding of ArcGIS software and Google Earth.
• Ability to navigate and locate specific properties in the field.
• Ability to prioritize and organize work in order to meet project deadlines.
• Ability to travel and conduct overnight work away – up to 50 percent.
• Work outside normal business hours.
• Current valid driver’s license with personal vehicle suitable for field work (mileage is reimbursed).
• A team player who is confident, respectful, curious, flexible, and able to work with other professionals in a growing, successful, and respected business.

Work Environment

At Steigerwaldt, we offer a Remote‑Friendly Hybrid Work Model for our staff. Due to the nature of this role, the Right of Way Agent – Wisconsin position is remote‑friendly and does not need to work from our offices. Candidates local to Central Wisconsin strongly preferred, but must be willing to work remotely for extended periods on projects throughout the United States, but primarily focused in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota. The position is roughly 75 percent field work and 25 percent office work.

Compensation

Compensation commensurate with experience.

Posting Information

Posted July 8, 2026. Position will be filled within one to three months. Interviews will be scheduled throughout this time period. Positions may be filled sooner as there is flexibility in the start date.