Project Manager – Permitting, Data Centers
Project Manager who owns the environmental permitting workstream (air and water permits) for IREN's data center campus in Kiowa, OK — building the permitting strategy, securing and maintaining permits, ensuring compliance through construction and commissioning, and handing permits to Operations. Requires 5–8 years of environmental permitting experience on industrial, energy, or data center project
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Kiowa, Oklahoma, United States
- Work setup
- Onsite
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Project management
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 5 to 8 years in environmental permitting, environmental compliance or environmental project management on industrial, energy, mission-critical or data center projects, with hands-on responsibility for
- Degree in environmental engineering, environmental science, civil or chemical engineering, or a related field, or equivalent demonstrable experience
- Experience securing air permits for stationary combustion sources and stormwater, wastewater or water supply approvals, including direct interaction with state and federal agencies
- Ability to read and interpret site, civil, mechanical and electrical drawings and specifications
- Executive presence and reporting: ability to document and communicate permitting risks, schedule and budget clearly to project leadership
- Experience in a fast-paced growth environment; flexible approach to work hours and site-based work
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Suite (Project, Excel, Word, Outlook)
- OSHA 30, or willingness to obtain within the first 90 days
- Clear criminal record check
- Must provide own steel-toed work boots; all other PPE supplied
- Must reliably commute to the project site daily or have plans to relocate before starting work
- Valid driver's license; regular travel to regulatory agency offices and other IREN sites required
Nice to have
- Air quality: minor and major New Source Review, Title V, permit-by-rule and standard permit pathways; NSPS and NESHAP engine standards; emissions inventories, dispersion modeling and stack testing
- Stormwater and wastewater: NPDES or state-delegated programs, SWPPP development and inspection, wastewater discharge and pretreatment permitting, cooling tower blowdown management
- Water supply and water rights: utility service agreements, groundwater conservation district permitting, water-rights filings and water reuse approvals
- Wetlands and site environmental: waters-of-the-U.S. delineation, Section 404/401 permitting, floodplain development permits, threatened and endangered species and cultural resource reviews
- Data center or mission-critical project exposure
- Experience permitting in multiple states, including Texas; familiarity with TCEQ and other state agencies in IREN's operating regions
- Professional registration or certification such as PE, CEP, CPESC/CPSWQ; PM certification (CAPM, PMP) highly regarded but not required
- Experience with project controls and document management tools such as Primavera P6, Procore or similar; SAP familiarity beneficial
- Experience with environmental due diligence, Phase I and II ESAs and site selection support
Full description
Job Type: Full-Time l Location: Kiowa, OK l Department: Data Center Delivery l Reporting to: Project Director | Work Location Type: #onsite
IREN is a vertically integrated AI Cloud provider, delivering large-scale data centers and GPU clusters for AI training and inference. IREN’s platform is underpinned by its expansive portfolio of grid-connected land and power in renewable-rich regions across North America, Europe and APAC.
Reporting to the Project Director, the Project Manager – Permitting (Air & Water) owns the environmental permitting workstream for a data center campus. The role secures the air and water permits and approvals required to construct, commission and operate each building, keeps those permits current as the design and campus evolve, and ensures permit conditions are built into the project and handed over to Operations in a form they can comply with from day one.
With 100% renewable energy, we build, own and operate our data centers and take pride in being at the forefront of sustainable solutions for the ever-evolving applications of high-performance compute. We believe that human progress is invaluable, but it should be done in the right way – responsibly, sustainably and having a positive impact on the communities we operate in.
Responsibilities
Permitting strategy and planning
- Develop and maintain the campus permitting matrix and schedule, identifying every required air and water permit, approval and notification, its regulatory pathway, lead time, dependencies and the design information needed to file.
- Integrate permit milestones into the master project schedule with project controls so that filing, agency review, public notice and issuance dates are visible as critical-path items.
- Advise the Project Director, Senior Project Managers and engineering on permitting pathways and trade-offs early in design, including generator sizing and run-hour strategies, cooling technology selection and water sourcing options that affect permit scope, timing and risk.
- Keep the permitting risk register current, with mitigation actions tracked to closure.
Air permitting
- Manage applicability analyses and permit applications for emergency and standby generators and other combustion sources, including minor source, permit-by-rule, standard permit, New Source Review and Title V pathways as applicable.
- Coordinate emissions inventories, dispersion modeling and health-effects reviews with consultants; review deliverables for accuracy before submission.
- Track federal engine and turbine standards (NSPS and NESHAP) and state requirements through equipment selection, procurement specifications and submittal review so that purchased equipment matches what was permitted.