Construction Environmental Program Manager
Role Overview
The role supports Microsoft's data centre construction portfolio from pre-construction through handover to operations.
The Construction Environmental Program Manager supports early works and construction through environmental risk management across EMEA.
The role regularly engages Microsoft legal, design, construction, and operations teams, as well as regulators, consultants, and contractors.
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Role overview
The role supports Microsoft's data centre construction portfolio from pre-construction through handover to operations.
The Construction Environmental Program Manager supports early works and construction through environmental risk management across EMEA.
The role regularly engages Microsoft legal, design, construction, and operations teams, as well as regulators, consultants, and contractors.
Responsibilities
- Lead environmental delivery during construction and coordinate teams to meet project timelines.
- Define environmental scopes and tender requirements; support procurement through bid preparation, evaluation, and award.
- Assess contractor capability and resourcing, and recruit, onboard, develop, and support site environmental managers.
- Ensure deliverables, control documents, permit conditions, roles, and requirements are established through project completion.
- Monitor environmental performance, data quality, risks, and compliance; drive corrections and escalate issues and trends.
- Provide environmental risk, sustainability, and impact-reduction expertise; train teams, coordinate operational handover, and improve the Environmental Excellence program.
Required qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Management or Environmental Science, or extensive experience.
- Significant direct experience managing environmental risk on fast-paced infrastructure projects under legal and project requirements and best international practice.
- Experience implementing Environmental Impact Assessments and other environmental permits.
- Must meet applicable Microsoft, customer, or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check at hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.
Preferred qualifications
- Local community and stakeholder engagement experience is preferred.
- Experience delivering projects in multiple jurisdictions is preferred.
Pay information
- The posting lists a typical United Kingdom base pay range of £70,300–£133,900 per year and an Italy range of €85,700–€152,800 per year; other country pay information is also referenced.
Organization
Microsoft Cloud Operations and Innovation delivers cloud infrastructure and foundational technologies, including data centres and platforms such as Microsoft Azure.
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