Microsoft Sr Land Development Permitting Program Manager - 

United States, District of Columbia, Washington 

910166945

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Management, Real Estate, Project Management, or related field AND 5+ years relevant experience
  • OR 7+ years equivalent experience.
• Experience delivering permits and planning approvals, and other entitlements for large scale and/or complex construction projects.

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 Qualification:

• Community Engagement and Stakeholder engagement experience
• Mission critical design and/or construction experience.
• Experience in delivery projects in multiple jurisdictions
• Willing to work in Eastern time zone.
• potential written and verbal communication skills, attention to detail and high standards for quality of deliverables.
• Experience managing a portfolio of projects and associated budgets and schedules.
• Ability to establish and maintain cross-functional and positive working relationships with internal and external teams including environmental consultants, attorneys, contractors, and regulatory agencies

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until December 11, 2024.

• Manage the permitting and approvals process for a portfolio of projects to enable new datacenter development and construction throughout
• Conduct comprehensive assessments during due diligence and throughout design and construction to identify permit requirements and associated risks.
• Coordinate with key internal counterparts including land development, design, construction, operations and environmental team leaders to develop comprehensive and integrated permitting and project delivery strategies.
• Communicate key risks, mitigations, and policies to internal Microsoft stakeholders.
• Work with internal and external stakeholders to Identify innovative solutions to resolve delays to construction or other activities due to permitting delays.
• Identify permitting agency engagement strategy and represent Microsoft in key meetings with applicable Authorities with Jurisdiction (AHJ), regulatory agencies, external stakeholders, and the public to facilitate datacenter development.
• Own key strategic relationships with AHJs, regulatory agencies, government officials and other key external stakeholders and act as a single point of contact for all discussions around permitting, planning approvals, and pre-construction delivery.
• Support the development of program tools and processes to continuously improve the delivery of permits, approvals and entitlements for datacenter development.
• Educate the project team on permitting requirements to ensure timely approvals and compliance.
• Manage permit approval conditions to ensure compliance.
• Key Metrics will include permitting and delivery timeline predictability.
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