Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. CrimsonXT is the fastest growing AI infrastructure business in the world, and they are seeking a Director of Water Strategy. This role involves overseeing water and wastewater strategy across data center sites, ensuring compliance and maintaining critical relationships to prevent supply issues.
Responsibilities
- You will be responsible for water and wastewater strategy across the company's entire portfolio of data center sites, starting with early site assessment and water rights diligence and carrying through to supply agreements, permitting, and construction
- Before any lease is signed, you will assess whether a site's water supply and delivery are actually workable, catching constraints early enough that they never threaten the build timeline
- You will lead negotiations for water and wastewater agreements with local authorities, utilities, and service providers across US markets, and be the person who keeps those relationships moving
- You will also own compliance across withdrawal limits, discharge permit conditions, and end-user flow agreements, watching the data closely enough to catch problems before they turn into regulatory issues
- Throughout, you will be the connective thread between development, engineering, design, construction, and operations, making sure water is never the workstream that holds everything else up
Skills
- Direct experience owning water and wastewater infrastructure for industrial or data center projects, from site selection through to construction, across several sites running at once
- A track record of negotiating water supply and wastewater agreements with utilities and local authorities, including deals where supply, rights, or access were genuinely complicated
- Ongoing awareness of water policy, rights, and regulatory shifts across active US markets, sharp enough to flag how a rule change will hit a site before anyone else notices
- Hands-on experience with discharge permits, industrial pre-treatment permits, or decentralized wastewater systems in a US regulatory context, navigated without needing outside help
- A track record of coordinating across development, engineering, design, construction, and operations on water issues without anything falling through the cracks
- Writing sharp enough to produce an external water narrative that a customer or regulator can act on, paired with the directness to close a hard negotiation with a water authority
- A background in civil or environmental engineering
- Data center water or cooling systems experience
- Water recycling or zero liquid discharge approaches
- Decentralized wastewater systems experience
- Multi-state permitting experience
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