Land Development Manager

2 weeks ago


Orlando, Florida, United States KB Home Full time
About KB Home

KB Home is a leading homebuilder in the United States, with a rich history of building quality homes for over 65 years. With operations in 47 markets across the country, we pride ourselves on building strong relationships with our customers and providing a beneficial impact on the world.

Our Culture

At KB Home, we're driven by a shared culture of customer obsession, guided by our focus on sustainability. We believe in making the dream of homeownership a reality for families across America.

Job Summary

The Director of Land Development/Entitlements will play a key role in driving the feasibility, permitting, and development process. This includes completing due diligence, preparing land packages, and securing corporate approvals.

Key Responsibilities
  • Acquisition Due Diligence
    • Initiate and complete all necessary due diligence, including oversight of engineering and other consultants.
    • Review and approve fee and tech development budgets for new properties.
    • Review and develop project timelines for new community openings.
    • Review, analyze, and summarize all risks, including environmental, political, entitlement, engineering, and/or development-related risks.
  • Site Development Management
    • Review and approve all construction schedules, engage in weekly reviews of schedule compliance, and approve schedule updates.
    • Lead land planning, entitlement, and engineering process for all acquisition targets.
    • Schedule and conduct contract and scope of work briefing meetings.
    • Schedule and conduct pre-construction meetings with subcontractors, governmental agencies, utility companies, consultants, etc.
    • Coordinate governmental officials and inspectors, consultants, subcontractors, construction staking providers in execution of site development tasks and obtaining necessary permits for site development.
    • Monitor subcontractors' work and/or utility companies' work for compliance with construction schedule and workmanship.
    • Review, approve, and update and maintain budgets for each project, and make monthly adjustments to budgets with NAPA and Division accounting personnel.
    • Provide weekly updates on project status.
    • Supervise Project Managers and conduct weekly progress meetings of project staff as well as monthly budget updates of all open projects.
  • Engineering and Forward Planning Consultants
    • Manage the efforts of the external team of consultants and internal employees during the entitlement process for all communities post-Land Committee approval.
    • Contract and management of consultant teams to design all aspects of new communities.
    • Management of the submittal process from preliminary through final plat.
    • Preparation and management of schedules associated with the entitlement process.
    • Update and manage the forward planning tools such as Ant Tracks.
    • Preparation of reports and studies as may be required.
    • Work jointly with the Land Development, Legal, Construction group in the review, design, and evaluation of all land planning activities.
  • Land Entitlement and Government Approvals
    • Drive the legal process of obtaining approvals for development plans.
    • Review and processing of land use changes, zoning changes, preliminary and final plat approvals, etc.
    • Work with staff and elected bodies to manage approval process.
    • Presentations to governmental councils, commissions, and division meetings.
    • Creating and managing relationships with governmental agencies.
    • Preparation of and negotiating municipal annexation and development agreements.
  • Tract Acceptance and Bond Exoneration
    • Schedule and participate in municipal inspections to achieve final acceptance of improvements.
    • Address municipal punch-list items for tract acceptance.
    • Follow-up with municipal agencies to obtain final sign-off letters for bond exoneration.
    • Participate in bond exoneration meeting as necessary.
    • Coordinate turnover punch-list items with HOAs at completion of the subdivision.
  • General Management Responsibilities
    • Prepare Bid Form, Bid Spread, Bid Analysis & Recommendation for Bid Award for Approval.
    • Contracting Drafting & Administration.
    • Review and approve subcontractors' and consultants' progress billings.
    • Review and negotiate subcontract change order requests and provide recommendation for approval or denial.
    • Provide cost impact to budget due to change orders and participate in monthly land development budget update meeting.
    • Work with Acquisition team on feasibility analysis of new projects preparing cost estimates and value engineering plans for new projects.
    • Directly responsible for the overall HOA process from document preparation, oversight of Management Companies, serving on HOA Boards, and the orderly turnover to resident-controlled Boards on completion of home-building operations.
    • Lead and conduct the New Community meetings on a weekly basis.
    • Work with VP of Land on any CDD-related matters in which the Division is involved.
    • Ensure compliance with Corporate policies on all auditable files for Land Development department.


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