Data Center Land Development Manager 5

Job Description:

The Land Development Manager will be a key party responsible for coordination across the internal Land Acquisition Engineering and Design Utility Fiber Environmental and Construction Teams and other key parties both internal and external to ensure an end-to-end coordinated delivery for datacenter development. The Land Development Manager will be a key player in the strategy development execution and site development of projects.

Specific Job Task:

• Land development and permitting strategy development and execution.
• Stakeholder engagement, utility connection/construction/development agreements, integrated project planning, contract and budget management.
• Liaison with authorities having jurisdiction AHJs tracking and completing deliverables in accordance with development schedule.

Roles and Responsibilities:

The Land Development Manager is part of a team of land use planning and development experts but works across the greater organization to drive an effective fast and efficient development process to eliminate gaps between teams and ensure delivery of datacenter build projects. They will be responsible for driving appropriate cross-team delivery in the review due diligence design and entitlement/permitting phases of projects to allow for the construction and delivery of our critical infrastructure. This will entail establishing the appropriate delivery teams and possessing the commercial and practical experience to take on development challenges across numerous projects and drive effective development practices to achieve business targets.

Skills and Qualifications:

• Have specific knowledge of land use planning and development to include due diligence processes and contracting A/E design processes zoning permitting utility delivery full entitlement etc. specifically in Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Texas.
• Have project management and stakeholder engagement experience.
• Have general knowledge and experience with a broad variety of construction means and methods.
• Be fluent in business English.
• Work comfortably with ambiguity in a fast-paced environment.
• Be a self-starter process-minded and collaborative.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in Architecture Engineering or related field.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience leading cross-functional team in strategy development and execution for large-scale development projects.
• 8 years minimum direct experience in Land Development or consulting work in Land Development.
• 8 years minimum experience in project management working on projects engaging directly with municipalities AHJs and utility districts to drive appropriate resolutions to development.
• 5 years minimum direct working experience with the core Microsoft products Outlook Excel PowerPoint Word SharePoint.
• 8 years of combined working experience in the land development design permitting and construction industries in Virginia and Texas.

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