AMER Central Environmental Permitting Manager

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.

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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 ofenvironmental risk evaluations, permitting, approvals, and consent activitiesfor 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.

Required/minimum qualifications

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.

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.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to askstaff@microsoft.com.

Background Check 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.

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Real Estate Portfolio Management IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $96,500 - $188,400 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 $123,500 - $206,400 per year.

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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.