Environmental Permitting Program Lead

The Environmental Permitting Program Lead will be leading a team of Environmental Permitting Program Managers who manage environmental due diligence, environmental approvals, and support compliance activities during site identification and acquisition, design, and construction for datacenter development across Asia Pacific (APAC. This role requires regular engagement with key Microsoft stakeholders, including legal, design, construction, and operations teams, regulatory agencies, and outside consultants and contractors.

**Responsibilities**:

- Lead a team who are responsible for environmental risk evaluations, permitting, approvals, and consent activities for existing and new datacenter development across Asia Pacific.
- Manage environmental due diligence and risk assessment during site acquisition, including Environmental Site Assessments, soil and groundwater investigations, regulatory and permitting evaluations, and ecological, and archaeological/cultural resource evaluations, acoustics, air quality and site surveys.
- Manage environmental consultants for the delivery of environmental approvals and consents, due diligence assessments, risk evaluations, and environmental surveys, reports, and evaluations.
- 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.
- Manage environmental compliance planning and execution for construction activities and operational turnover.
- Communicate environmental requirements and provide environmental expertise to diverse internal stakeholders, including legal, land development, energy, design, construction, operations, community development, sustainability teams and upcoming new legislation and regulations.
- The Environmental Program Lead 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

**Qualifications**:
Required:

- Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental, Civil, or Chemical Engineering, Environmental Science, or equivalent
- 12+ years of environmental management across Asia Pacific including:

- environmental permitting and approvals including management of environmental impact assessments:

- environmental due diligence and risk assessments for greenfield and brownfield sites, including environmental site assessments and remediation.
- construction compliance and risk management for all site environmental issues and permit approval conditions
- Experience with mission critical facility or large-scale construction projects
- Ability to establish and maintain cross-functional and positive working relationships with internal and external teams.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, attention to detail and high standards for quality of deliverables.
- Complex stakeholder engagement experience, including engagement with local government agencies.

Preferred:

- Community Engagement and Stakeholder engagement experience
- Mission critical design and/or construction experience
- Experience in delivering projects in multiple jurisdictions

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