About Vantage Data Centers

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Vantage Data Centers powers, cools, protects and connects the technology of the world’s well-known hyperscalers, cloud providers and large enterprises. Developing and operating across North America, EMEA and Asia Pacific, Vantage has evolved data center design in innovative ways to deliver dramatic gains in reliability, efficiency and sustainability in flexible environments that can scale as quickly as the market demands.

Position Overview

Vantage is looking for a detail-oriented Principal for Entitlements and Permitting to enable the successful implementation of development strategies for both new and existing data center campuses, in line with changing environmental and legislative demands. 

This position is responsible for a single key function in the Vantage NSD team, namely, attainment of permits.  This position will oversee all activities required to undertake (from) pre-application submissions (through) to submission and attainment of the necessary entitlements and permits to construct and operate Vantage’s Data Centers.  In addition, the role entails the creation and implementation of all strategies regarding entitlement and permitting, through early involvement from the onset of a new development, working closely alongside the Development, Design Engineering, Sustainability and Public Policy teams.

Constant communication with Business Development (including Site Selection & Acquisition and Public Policy), Sustainability, Design Engineering, Development, Construction, Operations and Marketing, alongside subject matter experts (planning and permit consultants) will be required to keep pace with Vantage’s strategic land and development goals.

Essential Job Functions

• Manage the strategic and tactical positioning and attainment of Vantage’s environmental and building permit applications, driving end-to end management and delivery of development related permits.

• Act as internal subject matter expert in the field of entitlement and permitting.

• Act as a centralized individual contributor in the field of permitting.

• Understand the permitting and licensing process across Vantage’s existing program, and develop strategies to standardize, improve and track. 

• Set strategic direction for planning and permitting during the early stages of Vantage’s development gating process, from site selection process (strategic), through to pre-application and full submission (tactical). 

• Work closely with the respective Development Management and Development Delivery (Construction) teams (then into) Construction and where necessary Operations team. Namely,

  • Work with and assist colleagues across the Company in setting permitting strategy

  • Work with and assist colleagues in the selection and appointment of permitting consultancy/advisory

  • Work with and assist colleagues in the evaluation and performance of consultancy/advisory.
     

• Review and standardize permitting strategy and documents, for new and existing sites, working closely with the Development team. 

• Push to improve and coach project teams who are creating permit documentation, and ensure permits are fit for operational requirements. 

• Subject matter expert (SME) for building permits and licenses, and the link between the NSD, Construction and Operations team. 

Duties

• Tracking all entitlement and permitting across the EMEA program (as SME alongside the Development team).

• Assisting the Site Selection & Acquisition Team in identifying and selecting new sites in existing and new markets in line with the strategy.

• Actively pursue permit decisions, working with project leadership and appointed advisory.

• Provide SME input into the Site Selection phase, setting strategy for the achievement of all necessary permits, commenting on the chances of success, and risk profiling - working with advisory as required.

• Work with legal advisory to ensure permitting strategies are sound, deliverable, and robust. Work with legal advisory to ensure permitting submissions are full and proper to maximise timely permit decisions.

• Actively develop and continue build strategy start point of data centers by way of design delivery, technical issues, specifications, considerations relevant to permitting requirement and permitting success.

• Provide support to Construction & Operations teams as entitlement and permitting SME.

• Ensure lessons learned are held and placed in the feedba