Data Centre Land Development Manager

Location: On site role, Dublin, Ireland

About Us:
Arcadis Group is the world’s leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. With sustainability at the heart of everything we do, our focus is on maximizing our impact aimed at improving quality of life. The solutions we develop, address important societal challenges around resilience, places, and mobility. Leveraging data and technology, we have the capabilities and services to meet client demands driven by global trends such as urbanization, climate change, digitalization, evolving stakeholder expectations and potential unforeseeable events.

With over 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life, a career at Arcadis Group is truly rewarding with excellent benefits and opportunities to develop your technical and professional development.

Position Summary:
The client datacentre development portfolio consists of complex, multi-disciplinary, large scale, multi year datacentre construction and lease projects. The Client Datacentre Land Development team supports the development and delivery of clients datacentre portfolio from site selection through design, construction and handover to operations. The client is looking for a Land Development Metro Lead, based in Ireland, to have a key role in coordinating across internal teams (e.g. Environment, Engineering and Design, Construction, Government Affairs, Community Engagement etc.) to ensure delivery of operation-ready data centre sites. They will support the development and execution of permitting strategies for the lifecycle delivery of datacentre development and will be a key contributor in the execution of comprehensive permitting programs and to the client pre-construction program. In alignment with our client values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Responsibilities:
The successful candidate will:

• Manage the development, permitting and approvals process for projects to enable new data centre development and construction throughout the Ireland Metro.
• Conduct comprehensive assessments throughout due diligence, design and construction and coordinate with key counterparts to develop permitting and project delivery strategies in order to minimise risk.
• Assist in the ownership of the land development budget for the projects and lead progress through decision stage gates and into construction, the client is an equal opportunity employer.
• Negotiate development agreements with real estate developers and support site seller negotiations
• Lead stakeholder engagement and represent the client in key meetings with applicable authorities having jurisdiction (AHJs), regulatory agencies, politicians and other external stakeholders to facilitate data centre development
• Scope and negotiate local infrastructure improvements with AHJs
• Work with partner teams to deliver utility easements and water connections
• Prepare and present reports on project progress and potential risks to internal and external audiences
• Work with internal and external stakeholders to identify innovative solutions to meet permitting requirements and facilitate timely approvals to resolve potential delays to construction or other activities
• Work with construction and operation teams to hand over permits and facilitate future compliance

Qualifications Required:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Construction, Real Estate, Urban Planning or equivalent area
• Substantial experience (10+ years) in real estate or infrastructure project
• Experience delivering zoning, permits, planning and other development approvals for large scale and/or complex construction projects
• Experience managing a portfolio of projects and associated deliverables, 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
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, attention to detail and high standards for quality of deliverables.
• Proficiency in relevant local languages (English)
• Full Irish/EU License and ability to self-navigate to green field sites where public transport is not available.

Preferred:

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

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging:

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.