AMER Central Environmental Permitting Manager

Microsoft•Redmond, WA

About The Position

The Microsoft Datacenter Development Land Development and Community (LDC) team supports the development and delivery of Microsoft’s datacenter portfolio from site selection through design, construction and operation. The MS datacenter development portfolio consists of complex, multi-disciplinary, large scale, multi-year datacenter construction and lease projects. Within LDC the Cloud Infrastructure Environmental Permitting team is responsible for the development and on-time delivery of environmental permits to support construction of Data Centers needed to build out Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure. The Environmental Permitting Manager will manage environmental due diligence, environmental permitting acquisition and approvals, and support compliance activities during site acquisition, design, and construction for datacenter development throughout Americas. This role requires regular engagement with key Microsoft stakeholders, including legal, design, construction, and operations teams, regulatory agencies, and outside consultants and contractors. Focus area and experience preference for this role is AMERs Central including, but not limited to, Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois and Wyoming. The Environmental Permitting Manager will be a key player in both the strategy development and execution of environmental permits for our projects. End of Statement (required, do not edit or delete) In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Business Management, Real Estate, Project Management, or related field AND 3+ years relevant experience OR 5+ years equivalent experience.
Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's Degree in Business Management, Real Estate, Project Management, or related field AND 5+ years Portfolio Management, Real Estate, or Office Management experience OR 7+ years equivalent experience

Responsibilities

Management of environmental risk evaluations, permitting, approvals, and consent activities for existing and new datacenter and associated infrastructure development for sites.
Management of environmental due diligence and risk assessment during site acquisition, including Environmental Site Assessments, soil and groundwater investigations, Air Quality and Permitting reviews, regulatory and permitting evaluations, and biological, ecological, and cultural resource evaluations and surveys.
Management of environmental consultants for the delivery of environmental approvals and consents, due diligence assessments, risk evaluations, and biological, ecological and cultural resources evaluations, surveys and reports.
Development of remediation strategies, approvals and oversight of completion of any remedial actions required prior to site pre-positioning and/or construction.
Identification of environmental permitting requirements and development of delivery strategies, including environmental mitigation, in coordination with design, construction, EHS, operations, and permitting teams to meet required timelines.
Support of regulatory agency, stakeholder and community engagement activities and negotiations for new builds and existing facilities.
Support of development of environmental risk and permitting mitigations to enable datacenter construction and operations within development timelines.
Management of environmental compliance planning and execution for pre-positioning, construction activities and operational turnover.
Communication of environmental requirements and environmental expertise to diverse internal stakeholders, including legal, land development, energy, design, construction, operations, community development, and sustainability teams.
The Environmental Permitting Manager will maintain and report project status regularly and contribute to the development and continued improvement of an Environmental Excellence program for datacenter delivery and operations.
Support the further development of the land development and environmental strategy and policy programs to support datacenter development and operations.
Leverage technical expertise to provide support to internal Microsoft stakeholders during development of new initiatives and programs.
Facilitate in team communication of land development and environmental requirements to diverse internal stakeholders, including legal, end-to-end, land acquisition, land development, energy, design, construction, operations, community development, CELA and sustainability teams.
The LDC SDD Lead will maintain and report the programs status regularly and contribute to the development and continued improvement of the SDD program to support CO+I.