Regional Land Representative

Overview

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, creating a world-class system for oil transport with high regulatory standards, enhanced marine protection 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. 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!

Role

The Regional Land Representative 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 center 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 .

Key Responsibilities

• 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.
• Arrange access onto lands, negotiate, 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.
• Communicate, respond to, and anticipate stakeholder concerns, needs, and requests, while maintaining Trans Mountain’s commitments to stakeholders’ milestones and objectives.
• Provide correspondence to stakeholders as necessary for managing the varied land interests held by Trans Mountain, including correspondence with government authorities.
• Directly engage and communicate with landowners and land users regarding project information, damage prevention, or public awareness files and support the delivery of landowner packages, new landowner engagement procedures, and unauthorized activity documentation.
• Provide advisory services regarding land use to internal and external parties, as well as deliver new permanent or temporary land rights to use land in support of non-routine projects.
• Establish and maintain lines of communication with field operation staff and external parties such as landowners and government authorities to ensure an effective transfer of knowledge between all stakeholders.
• Investigate information on tenures to both internal and external parties which may result in undertaking other communications as necessary.
• Conduct field assessments related to soil disturbance, compaction, erosion, drainage changes, and land restoration needs.
• Monitor land use (including Agricultural Land Reserve requirements), identify potential incompatibilities, and support mitigation strategies. Provide advisory services on agricultural land use, mitigation measures, and best practices for construction and operations on farmland.
• Support post-construction land restoration and long-term land productivity objectives.
• Monitor land use (zoning, planning, etc.) identifying risks, and mitigating encroachments, incompatible land use, and class change triggers.

Qualifications and Professional Experience

Other Requirements and Information

Relocation Eligibility

We invite applicants from outside the position location to apply. Relocation to the position location will be required and domestic relocation assistance may be considered for the successful candidate.

Application

Candidates may submit their application in English or French. To apply in French, please use our French careers site : Careers (French)

WeBuild an inclusive, accessible recruitment process. If you require an accommodation at any point in the process, please contact Talent@transmountain.com. Accommodation requests will not affect the assessment of your application or candidacy.

We Build Careers and Pipelines That Last

Our story is about determination, resourcefulness and resilience. It was true when Trans Mountain became a company in 1951 and it’s just as true today. We welcome new members to our team that embrace the qualities in our story and join our journey. Our culture emphasizes care and responsibility.

Rewards and Benefits

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We Value

In keeping with Trans Mountain’s commitment to maximize benefits for communities, priority will be given to qualified candidates from Indigenous, local and regional communities along the Trans Mountain pipeline corridor.

In Alberta, the pipeline system spans the traditional territories of Treaty 6, 7 and 8, and the Métis Nation of Alberta (Zone 4).

In British Columbia, the system crosses the traditional territories of numerous First Nations that are affiliated with the Secwepemc, Dakelh (Carrier), Nlaka’pamux, Syilx / Okanagan, Interior and Coast Salish, Stó : lo, as well as the Métis.

Trans Mountain also operates through 15 First Nation Reserves located within the region spanning the BC interior through Fraser Valley.

IDEA

Our Commitment to Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility (IDEA). Trans Mountain is committed to fostering inclusion, diversity, equity and accessibility. We strive to create an environment free of barriers to promote full participation in the workplace. Trans Mountain welcomes new team members from traditionally underrepresented groups, including but not limited to women, Indigenous Peoples, members of racialized groups, persons with disabilities and members of the 2SLGBTQI+ community.

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