Regional Land Representative

Overview

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Location: Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada

Trans Mountain Corporation operates Canada’s only pipeline system transporting oil products to the West Coast. We deliver approximately 890,000 barrels of petroleum products each day through a dual pipeline system of more than 1,150 kilometres of pipeline in Alberta, British Columbia and Washington state.

Trans Mountain also operates a state-of-the-art loading facility, Westridge Marine Terminal, with three berths providing tidewater access to global markets.

As a federal Crown corporation, Trans Mountain continues to build on more than 70 years of experience delivering operational and safety excellence through our crude oil pipeline system. With our expanded pipeline system now in place, Trans Mountain provides enhanced direct access for Canadian crude oil to world markets. The expansion realizes a world-class system for oil transport, developed to Canada’s high standards within one of the most stringent regulatory regimes in the world, creating long-term economic benefits, enhanced marine protection, enhanced safety and emergency management capabilities, and enhanced skilled-worker capacity building in communities and Indigenous groups.

Our Core Values

Trans Mountain’s core values – Safety, Integrity, Respect and Excellence – guide our every step. Each obstacle we’ve overcome or success we’ve experienced has been the result of a shared commitment to living these values every day. Together, we’re focused on doing the right thing for each other and our communities. If you are looking for an opportunity to apply your strengths in an environment that encourages Safety, Integrity, Respect, and Excellence, we invite you to explore this opportunity with us!

The Regional Land Representative role focuses on establishing and maintaining positive relationships with property owners, agricultural producers, land users, and other parties along Trans Mountain’s operations in the Lower Mainland. The responsibilities will be centered around agricultural land management, soil conservation, and crop‑related considerations associated with pipeline construction, maintenance, and operations.

The role includes the negotiation and resolution of land and right‑of‑way issues, landowner concerns, and claims, as well as providing real property services related to the acquisition, development, and disposal of land interests for pipeline operations. This work is grounded in an understanding of agricultural land use, soil conservation, and crop‑related impacts to ensure the long‑term productivity of farmland affected by construction and maintenance activities.

The position requires an individual based out of the Chilliwack region covering a territory ranging from Abbotsford to Merritt, BC
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• Build and maintain strong working relationships with property owners, agricultural landowners, producers, and land users.
• Collaborate with leaders to formulate solutions for landowner and land user challenges, concerns, and issues.
• Arranges access onto lands, negotiates, and settle land files (claims, concerns, issues, conflicts, information on respective contractual or statutory rights, and damage prevention issues).
• Monitor land‑use changes, such as zoning and planning developments, across the region.
• Communicates, responds to, and anticipates stakeholder concerns, needs, and requests, while maintaining Trans Mountain’s commitments to stakeholders’ milestones and objectives.
• Provides correspondence to stakeholders as necessary for managing the varied land interests held by Trans Mountain, including correspondence with government authorities.
• Directly engages and communicates with landowners and land users regarding project information, damage prevention, or public awareness files and supports the delivery of landowner packages, new landowner engagement procedures, and unauthorized activity documentation.
• Provides advisory services regarding land use to internal and external parties, as well as delivers new land permanent land rights or temporary rights to use land in support of non‑routine projects.
• Establishes…