Director, Land Development

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 up leveling 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.

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 up leveling 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.

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.

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Direct master planning with internal and external stakeholders so each campus plan reconciles…