Water Program Manager, Data Center Development

Meta designs, builds, leases, and operates highly efficient data centers. Developing, operating, and managing the data center infrastructure and facilities in alignment with industry best practices and Meta standards is synonymous with ensuring high uptime, capacity availability, flexibility and capital and operational cost efficiency in a safe working environment.Meta is seeking a water program manager to support cross-functional program efforts for the large and growing water global data center portfolio during pre-development, construction, and operations phases. This position will report directly to the Water Team Manager within the broader Site Development team and will work closely with other Data Center teams. Travel may be needed to visit our data center sites to better understand operations, meet site teams, and attend agency and stakeholder meetings.ResponsibilitiesFacilitate and drive communication and cross-team coordination between internal and external water stakeholders, including Strategy, Finance, Sustainability, Design, Engineering, Construction, and Operations* Monitor and support tool development for ensuring water and wastewater compliance* Oversee compliance with water withdrawals and ensure compliance with end-user agreements (flow rate, wastewater discharge, volume/quality, significant industrial user, installation of monitoring and operational equipment where required, etc.)* Oversee compliance with wastewater discharge volume/quality requirements (pre-treatment, Significant Industrial User, Permit)* Prepare and implement Water Mitigation Plan with Emergency Operating Procedures related to forced water reduction, establish framework and lead effort on finalizing entire Emergency Plan* Monitor external factors that could affect water (i.e., tracking local and state water policy, water quality issues, legal rights/issues) and provide results and updates to internal teams* Organize, review, and evaluate water and wastewater monitoring data to compare against agreements, identify anomalies, and establish best practices* Lead water utility engagement approach during construction and operations on all technical, invoicing, and operational issues. Work closely with cross functional partners on efforts to optimize overall operations, promote best practices, and drive environmental stewardship* Complete engineering design reviews and track both onsite and offsite infrastructure projects including schedule, scope and budget. Understand the status and impact to ongoing data center construction and operations* Partner with construction management teams on construction quality control and assurance of wet utility infrastructure projects* Meet regularly with utility partners to coordinate on projects and maintain good relationships throughout the life cycle of the data center* Lead a variety of programmatic initiatives to advance the Water Team's mission, including (but not limited to): advancing fleet-wide sustainability and water