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This is an opportunity for a highly experienced appraiser to bring deep valuation expertise to transportation and public improvement projects while helping shape and expand a growing service at MSA.\nYou’ll independently complete complex appraisal assignments involving eminent domain and right of way transactions, including complex commercial properties. As a senior technical resource, you’ll work closely with MSA’s real estate professionals, project managers, clients, and other stakeholders while providing guidance and mentorship to less-experienced appraisers.\nFor someone interested in helping build something, there is significant opportunity here. Appraisal is a growing service within MSA’s established Real Estate practice, providing an opportunity to influence how the service develops as we expand our capabilities and team.\nMSA specializes in the sustainable development of communities and is proud to be 100% employee owned. With roots reaching back to 1919, MSA has grown from a rural land survey company into a multidisciplinary network of nearly 550 engineers, architects, planners, funding experts, surveyors, GIS experts, environmental scientists, and more who are committed to making communities better places to live, work, and play.\nCome join the ownership team here!\nEmployee Testimonial:\n\"As an employee-owned company (100% ESOP), working at MSA is not just a job. 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