Program Manager - Sustainability

With environmental sustainability and optimization at the forefront of our datacenter design and operations, we continue to grow and evolve as we meet the ever-changing business demands that hold Microsoft as a world-class cloud provider. 

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. 

• Drive environmental sustainability programs, projects and compliance initiatives, ensuring high service quality and operational excellence.
• Partner with local and cross-functional teams to implement sustainability programs, resolve issues and support continuous improvement.
• Promote safety, security and compliance standards, participate in root cause analysis, and recommend process improvements.
• Manage vendors, auditors, purchase orders, budgets and financial processes to support program delivery and cost control.
• Monitor service levels, regulatory compliance and operational performance, identifying issues and driving resolution or escalation as needed.Share environmental sustainability best practices, provide training and mentoring, and support knowledge sharing across data centers.

Required Qualifications:

• Enterprise-level experience managing large-scale environmental sustainability programs and projects across Europe, with expertise in environmental regulations, circular economy principles, sustainability and environmental management programs and standards such as ISO 50001 and ISO 14001.
• Bacherlors degree in Energy Sustainability or Energy Engineering.

Background Check Requirements:

• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.While not required, we also look for the following

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with reporting and Power BI.Experience designing and delivering training to staff.

• Energy Sustainability or Energy Engineering associated Masters.

• Experience leading diverse, technical workforce or managing global and virtual teams.

• Applicable certifications: PMP; ISO 14001, ISO 50001 internal/lead auditor.

Data Center Operations Management IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across Ireland is € 71,600.00 - € 119,500.00 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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