Data Center Audit Compliance Manager - Insurance, Licensing & Inspections - Michigan

Position: Data Center Audit Compliance Manager - Insurance, Licensing & City Inspections  - Michigan
** Job Description*
* You will work closely with Legal, Compliance, Risk Management, Real Estate & Facilities, Finance, Procurement, Operations, site leadership, brokers, vendors, and local agencies to coordinate compliance workflows, monitor deadlines, identify gaps, and support remediation. This role is ideal for someone with strong compliance judgment, organization, follow-through, and communication skills who can manage multiple regulatory and documentation requirements across a fast-moving enterprise environment.

** Responsibilities*
* ** Key Responsibilities*
* - Manage day-to-day compliance operations for insurance certificates, business licenses, municipal permits, city inspections, registrations, renewals, and related audit documentation.

- Maintain organized, accurate, and audit-ready records for licenses, permits, insurance documentation, inspection results, corrective actions, renewal evidence, and compliance communications.

- Support consistent methodologies for compliance risk assessments, control effectiveness reviews, reassessments, ongoing monitoring, and issue management.

- Review, track, and escalate compliance gaps related to expired or missing licenses, incomplete insurance documentation, inspection findings, missed deadlines, open corrective actions, or unclear ownership.

- Monitor compliance with internal policies, service-level expectations, renewal timelines, inspection requirements, and documentation standards.

- Partner with Legal, Facilities, Real Estate, Risk Management, Procurement, Finance, Operations, site teams, vendors, brokers, and external agencies to collect documentation, confirm requirements, and resolve open compliance items.

- Support internal audits and readiness reviews by gathering evidence, validating records, preparing responses, tracking findings, and ensuring remediation actions are completed.

- Develop and maintain compliance trackers, dashboards, reporting materials, risk registers, renewal calendars, inspection logs, and leadership updates.

- Review and update compliance manuals, standard operating procedures, process documentation, checklists, audit controls, and workflow guidance.

- Provide process-level training and awareness to internal stakeholders to improve understanding of insurance, licensing, inspection, documentation, and escalation requirements.

- Monitor process efficiency and partner with stakeholders to implement procedural, reporting, and system improvements.

- Support broader compliance program activities, including training content, risk assessments, program reporting, control implementation, and special compliance projects.

** Ideal Candidate Profile*
* - 6-8+ years of experience in compliance, audit, risk management, licensing, insurance compliance, facilities compliance, legal operations, regulatory operations, or related roles.

- Experience managing documentation-heavy compliance workflows involving licenses, permits, certificates of insurance, inspections, regulatory filings, renewals, corrective actions, or audit evidence.

- Experience supporting large-scale operational, facilities, real estate, construction, data center, technology, municipal, regulated, or multi-site environments is preferred.

- Comfortable working with cross-functional stakeholders to clarify requirements, assign ownership, resolve issues, and keep compliance processes moving.

- Demonstrated ability to identify compliance gaps, assess risk, escalate issues, and drive matters to successful closure.

- Experience preparing reports, dashboards, audit responses, leadership updates, and process documentation.

- Bachelor's degree in Business, Legal Studies, Compliance, Risk Management, Facilities Management, Public Administration, or related field preferred; equivalent experience also valued.

** Skills and Competencies*
* - Strong audit discipline and compliance judgment.

- Excellent organizational skills with a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail.

- Strong communication and coordination skills across legal, operational, facilities, finance, risk, and external stakeholders.

- Ability to manage multiple deadlines, recurring obligations, escalations, and documentation requirements in a time-sensitive environment.

- Strong analytical skills with the ability to use metrics, trends, and evidence to identify risks and process improvement opportunities.

- Ability to exercise sound judgment, take ownership of issues, and drive actions through completion.

- Strong process orientation with the ability to improve workflows, reporting, controls, and documentation standards.

- High integrity, professionalism, responsiveness, and discretion when handling sensitive compliance information.

** Preferred Skills / Certifications*
* - Experience with compliance management systems, Service Now, Oracle systems, document repositories, workflow trackers, audit tools, or reporting platforms.

- Familiarity with certificates of insurance, vendor insurance requirements, business license renewals, municipal permits,…