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 Microsoft 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 Datacenters needed to build out Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure.

The AMER Environmental Complience Program Manager will be a key player in both the strategy development and execution of environmental permits for our projects and 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.

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Responsibilities

As a AMER Environmental complience Program Manager, you are expected to manage environmental due diligence, environmental permitting acquisition and approvals, and support compliance activities during site acquisition, design, construction and delivery of our critical infrastructure 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. Specific responsibilities will include:

• Manage environmental risk evaluations, permitting, approvals, and consent activities for existing and new datacenter development in Americas.

• Identify environmental permitting requirements and develop delivery strategies, including environmental mitigation, in coordination with design, construction. EHS, operations, and permitting teams to meet required timelines.

• Support regulatory agency, stakeholder and community engagement activities and negotiations for new builds and existing facilities.

• Support development of environmental risk and permitting mitigations to enable datacenter construction and operations within development timelines.

• Support the development of and management of environmental compliance plans, as well as execution of such plans, for construction activities and operational turnover.

• Review and manage environmental permits governing data center campuses in the Americas to assess adequacy of site coverage by issued permits.

• Communicate environmental requirements and provide environmental expertise to diverse internal stakeholders, including legal, land development, energy, design, construction, operations, community development, and sustainability teams.

• Actively participate as an internal team member to ensure proper management of external teams as they seek to maintain construction site compliance.

• Provide support as an internal stakeholder in the continued development of a Construction Compliance Program, as regulations at local, state and federal levels change.

• The Environmental Permitting 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.

• Embody our Culture (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/culture) & Values (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values)

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Environmental, Civil, or Chemical Engineering, Environmental Science or related field AND 3+ years relevant experience

• OR 5+ years equivalent experience

• 3+ years of environmental permitting and approvals experience in USA, Canada and/or LATAM, including management of environmental impact assessments, acquisition of permits in accordance with the medium combustion unit and industrial emissions directives, and cultural and ecological surveys and approvals.

• 3+ years conducting environmental due diligence and risk assessments for greenfield and brownfield sites, including environmental site assessments and remediation.

Other Requirements:

• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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.

• Experience in mission critical facilities or large-scale construction projects, Environmental Compliance and Permitting in Eastern Region of America.

• 5+ years conducting environmental compliance site inspections, assessing site conditions/permit risks, and identifying/implementing mitigation risks to maintain site compliance.

• 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.

Real Estate Portfolio Management IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $94,600 - $183,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $122,000 - $200,500 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until May 28, 2024.

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