Director, Land Development

<p><strong>Overview</strong><br>Fleet Data Centers designs, builds and operates mega-scale data center campuses. Fleet provides its customers flexibility and predictability to meet their upside demand forecasts, addressing a key need in the market as traditional leased models are struggling to keep pace with the demand for new Cloud and AI infrastructure. Fleet is led by a team of industry veterans that have already made a lasting imprint on the evolution of global digital infrastructure and are committed and uniquely capable of upleveling data center development scale and operations in the face of rising demand. Fleet is well positioned to bring in-house design, engineering and operational capabilities to collaborate with customers on tailored solutions for campuses of 500MW+. This unique model enables Fleet to provide the world’s largest and most sophisticated customers a seamless extension of their own data center fleets with constant access to design innovation.</p> <p><strong>Position Overview</strong></p> <p>The Director of Land Development supports the pre-development phase of Fleet’s data center projects and carries those projects forward through the balance of their lifecycle. The Director of Land Development leads site diligence, campus master planning, entitlements, and permitting, from initial site control or joint venture through stabilization, then stays with the project through lease, vertical construction, stabilization, and the ultimate disposition of the asset. The Director of Land Development works closely alongside senior members of the organization, and represents Fleet before the jurisdictions, agencies, utilities, and communities that decide whether a campus gets built.</p> <p><strong>Job Responsibilities</strong></p> <p>In addition to other duties assigned, the Director of Land Development will hold the following primary responsibilities:</p> <ul> <li>Lead site inquiry and evaluation of prospective sites in assigned markets, identifying the risks and opportunities that determine whether a site advances to site control or joint venture formation, and carrying multiple projects across diverse jurisdictions at once</li> <li>Own the pre-development workstream plan for assigned projects: define the diligence scope at site control or joint venture formation, sequence the studies that gate a development decision, and hold the schedule that carries a site from control to vertical construction</li> <li>Run land and site diligence, including title and survey, geotechnical, environmental, wetlands, cultural resources, traffic, and water and wastewater, and convert the findings into buildable area, phasing, and cost consequences that leadership can act on</li> <li>Lead entitlements and permitting across local, state, and federal jurisdictions: map the approval path for each site, prepare applications alongside counsel and consultants, and carry hearings through to recorded approvals and issued permits</li> <li>Direct masterplanning with internal and external stakeholders so each campus plan reconciles critical load, building form factor, substation and switchyard siting, water strategy, and site constraints, and revise that plan as customer requirements, power availability, and investment strategy move</li> <li>Support the internal power teams on the entitlements, permits, and land use matters that power infrastructure requires, including substation and switchyard siting approvals, transmission and distribution easements and rights-of-way, conditional use approvals for generation and battery energy storage, and the property rights needed to bring interconnection and behind-the-meter solutions onto the site</li> <li>Support the creation and management of a bottom-up pre-development budget, tracking commitments and spend against it and helping forecast the capital draw by phase so leadership can plan funding</li> <li>Assemble and manage the consultant bench: write scopes of work, support solicitations, bid-leveling, recommend awards to management, negotiate agreements with internal legal, and hold each firm to its deliverable dates</li> <li>Interrogate engineering and consultant deliverables before they circulate, testing them against the approval path, the site constraints, and the development schedule, and returning work that does not hold up</li> <li>Represent Fleet before local government, including planning and zoning commissions and public works staff, and attend city council and county commission meetings as required</li> <li>Work the rest of the local apparatus that moves an approval, including assessors, clerks, utilities, and state and local economic development offices, and build the relationships that drive approvals</li> <li>Support leasing and capital markets on assigned sites, translating site and schedule reality into delivery dates and costs that can be committed to customers, lenders, and investment partners</li> <li>Advance the horizontal development features that makes a campus buildable, including securing water, wastewater, fiber, and road infrastructure and coordinating earthworks packages specific to data center campus use</li> <li>Represent Fleet in the community, building and maintaining relationships with adjacent landowners and community groups, and reflecting the company's approach to land stewardship and local economic benefit in every public interaction</li> <li>Uphold company Environment, Health & Safety standards across consultant and contractor activity on assigned sites</li> <li>Hand projects to construction without losing the record, transferring permit conditions, commitments made to jurisdictio