AMER West Environmental Permitting Manager

Microsoft•Redmond, WA

About The Position

The Environmental Permitting Manager is part of a team of environmental permitting managers but works across the greater organization to drive an effective, fast and efficient environmental permit development process to eliminate gaps between teams and ensure on-time acquisition and delivery of various environmental permits and approvals. The Environmental Permitting Manager will be responsible for driving appropriate cross-team delivery in the review, environmental due diligence, environmental permit acquisition and environmental permit compliance for data centers to allow for the construction and delivery of our critical infrastructure. Specific responsibilities will include: 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. 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.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Business Management, Real Estate, Project Management, or related field AND 3+ years relevant experience OR 5+ years equivalent experience.
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.
These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

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.
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.
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.