Environmental Permitting Program Manager

Title: Datacenter Environmental Permitting Compliance Project Manager

Location: Remote

18 month contract position

15 days of PTO included for first year

Possibility to convert to perm

The Infrastructure Environmental Permitting team is responsible for the development and on-time delivery of environmental permits to support construction of Datacenters needed to build out the client's cloud infrastructure.

• In this role, the Environmental Program Manager, Central Region, America 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 stakeholders, including legal, design, construction, and operations teams, regulatory agencies, and outside consultants and contractors.
• The Environmental Program Manager, Special Projects, America will be a key player in both the strategy development and execution of environmental permits for our projects. Environmental Program Manager, Special Projects, America is part of a team of environmental and 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.

Responsibilities:

• The Environmental Program Manager, Special Projects, will be responsible for driving appropriate cross-team delivery within 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, Environmental Health and Safety (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.
• 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 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.
• This role requires strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to work effectively with a variety of stakeholders.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 4+ years experience in Environmental, Civil, or Chemical Engineering, Environmental Science or program management,
• OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years project or people management experience.
• 1+ year(s) experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
• 4+ years of experience in environmental permitting, including environmental impact assessments, permit acquisition, new region regulatory reviews, cultural and ecological surveys and approvals, environmental due diligence and risk assessments.

Preferred:

• Experience with mission critical facilities or large-scale construction projects
• Experience in construction and operational environmental compliance and experience working through environmental permitting in multiple markets.
• Specific knowledge of environmental permitting programs and requirements including, but not limited to air quality, threatened and endangered, USACE/404 permitting, SPCC, cultural resources, etc.
• Working knowledge of remedial investigations, remediation strategies and execution, site conceptual models and site management plans and ability to develop permitting timelines, and identify permitting risks and mitigation

Resources Required –

• MS Operating System (version 10 or higher)
• MS Office Suite
• MS Outlook
• MS Word
• MS Excel
• MS PowerPoint
• MS Project

Basic Qualifications -

• Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental, Civil, or Chemical Engineering, Environmental Science or equivalent
• Candidate must possess strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to establish and maintain cross-functional and positive working relationships with internal and external teams

Experience Required

• 1. 5+ years of environmental permitting and approvals experience in America, including management of environmental impact assessments, acquisition of permits, permit compliance, and cultural and ecological surveys and approvals. 2. 5+ years of program and project management experience in America, including permit timeline development, cross coordination amongst disciplines, contracting and leading consultant teams, driving deliverables to the business, etc.
• 3. Experience with mission critical facilities or large-scale construction projects.

Specific Job Task

• The Environmental Permitting Compliance Project Manager is part of a team of environmental and 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 continuous compliance with various environmental permits and approvals.
• He or she will be responsible for driving appropriate cross-team coordination in the review, 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 in the Americas East region of Columbus, Ohio.
• 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 Program 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.

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