Own end-to-end water and wastewater infrastructure strategy for data center sites, including risk assessment, negotiating supply agreements, securing permits, ensuring regulatory compliance, and coordinating across teams to prevent delays in gigawatt-scale AI compute builds.
200k – 350k/yr
On-siteOther
About the role
Responsibilities
Own water and wastewater infrastructure strategy across Fluidstack's full portfolio of data center sites, from initial site assessment and water rights diligence through supply agreements, permitting, and construction.
Assess water supply risk and delivery feasibility for new sites before lease commitments are made, flagging constraints early enough to keep them off the build schedule.
Negotiate water supply and wastewater agreements with local authorities, utilities, and service providers across US markets, and own the relationships that make those deals move.
Drive compliance with water withdrawal limits, NPDES and pre-treatment permit conditions, and end-user flow agreements, tracking data and catching anomalies before they surface as operational or regulatory issues.
Coordinate water workstreams across Development, Engineering, Design, Construction, and Operations so water timelines never gate a build.
Requirements
Personally owned water and wastewater infrastructure for industrial or data center projects from site selection through construction, across multiple concurrent sites.
Negotiated water supply and wastewater agreements with local utilities and authorities, and closed deals where supply volume, rights, or infrastructure access wasn't straightforward.
Track water policy, legal rights, and regulatory changes across active US markets and know when a state rule or permit condition is going to affect a site before anyone else flags it.
Worked with NPDES permits, industrial pre-treatment permits, or decentralized wastewater systems in a US context, and can navigate the permit process without outside guidance.
Quarterback across development, engineering, design, construction, and operations on water issues, keeping all open items visible and moving without losing anything in the handoffs.
Write clearly enough to produce an external water narrative a customer or regulator can act on, and directly enough to close a difficult commercial negotiation with a water authority.
Nice-to-Haves
Civil or environmental engineering background.
Data center water or cooling infrastructure experience.
Water recycling, zero liquid discharge, or water efficiency systems.
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