Land Specialist

The Nuclear Company is the fastest growing AI tech-enabled startup in the nuclear and energy space, pioneering a fleet-scale approach to building the next generation of nuclear reactors. Through our design-once, build-many model, we're accelerating the deployment of safe, reliable, and affordable nuclear energy. We operate with an AI-first mindset. Every employee is expected to leverage AI, technology, and the Nuclear Operating System (NOS) as integral components of their role to improve the quality, speed, and impact of their work.

We expect every team member to continuously identify opportunities to automate workflows, enhance decision-making, improve processes, and contribute to the ongoing evolution of NOS as a strategic operating capability that enables The Nuclear Company to scale with excellence. We hire people who are driven by purpose, thrive in ambiguity, and are energized by building what has never been built before.

Our team combines intellectual curiosity with high agency, embraces candid feedback and continuous learning, and holds themselves and others to exceptional standards. Our values— Transparency, Responsibility, Unity, Scrappiness, and Tenacity —guide how we hire, collaborate, and make decisions every day. They are not words on a wall; they are the standard by which we operate. TRUST is the foundation of our safety culture, fostering intellectual honesty, accountability, and open communication, while our values challenge every team member to execute with urgency, humility, resilience, and an unwavering commitment to our mission.

The Land Specialist secures the land and land rights TNC's nuclear development projects depend on, from FEL 0 through FEL 3. The role owns the land workstream on assigned projects: defining what land is needed, engaging owners, securing access and control, resolving title, mineral, and third-party interests, and closing the acquisition ahead of FID. The role is responsible for achieving and maintaining site control – as defined (differently) by the interconnection provider, the NRC, and project financing.

The role is also responsible for activities that are critical to maintaining the project schedule, including invasive site access in time for the meteorological tower to begin its data gathering and resolution of any road, railway, or pipeline crossing the site.

Land Requirement and Site Control

• Translate technology land parameters and the hazard standoff envelope into a stated land requirement, giving both the minimum viable and target footprint.
• Maintain the parcel register: ownership, tenancy, encumbrances, and classification of each parcel as core or contingent.
• Lead landowner engagement and negotiate options, leases, easements, and purchase agreements.
• Maintain the control register, recording per parcel which of the three control standards each instrument satisfies, and manage option expiries, extensions, and payments.

Access, Title, and Third-Party Interests

• Secure both access instruments: non-invasive right of entry, and invasive access for geotechnical, environmental, and meteorological tower work.
• Manage title examination, curative work, insurance, and the ALTA/NSPS survey.
• Determine mineral severance early and resolve it by acquisition, waiver, or non-disturbance agreement.
• Inventory every road, railway, pipeline, and utility on or adjacent to the site, establish what each legally is, classify it as removable, relocatable, or permanent, and secure for those that remain the emergency traffic control arrangements the license relies on (10 CFR 100.3).

Corridor, Offsite Rights, and Entitlements

• Acquire corridor rights for interconnection, water intake and discharge, heavy haul, barge landing, and rail spur, including USACE, submerged land, highway, and railroad crossing consents.
• Secure offsite construction land for laydown, module assembly, batch plant, spoil, and parking, and supply the property evidence for rezoning, subdivision, plat, and right-of-way vacation.

Gate Readiness, Data, and Reporting

• Deliver the land deliverables at each gate and state control sufficiency as a percentage of the minimum viable footprint…