Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. FourFound is a rapidly scaling AI infrastructure and cloud platform seeking a Water Development Lead to support the expansion of its multi-GW U.S. data center portfolio. The role focuses on owning the water and wastewater strategy, assessing supply and capacity, and managing relationships with stakeholders to ensure successful project execution.
Responsibilities
- Own water and wastewater infrastructure strategy across a portfolio of large-scale data center development sites
- Assess water supply availability, wastewater capacity, delivery feasibility, water rights, and infrastructure constraints across prospective markets
- Identify water and wastewater risks early in the site selection and development process, ensuring issues are flagged before they impact acquisition, lease, or construction timelines
- Support market entry and campus growth strategy by evaluating whether water and wastewater infrastructure can support long-term data center development
- Build and maintain relationships with local authorities, utilities, water providers, wastewater service providers, municipalities, consultants, and other key stakeholders
- Lead water and wastewater diligence on prospective sites, including supply capacity, withdrawal limits, discharge pathways, rights, permits, treatment requirements, and infrastructure availability
- Evaluate water and wastewater requirements across large-scale data center projects, ensuring sites can support development, cooling, operations, and future campus expansion
- Coordinate with internal development, engineering, design, construction, and operations teams to assess project feasibility and execution risk
- Identify constraints around permitting, local infrastructure, water policy, treatment capacity, discharge limits, and long-lead infrastructure upgrades
- Develop strategies to de-risk water and wastewater timelines, cost, regulatory approvals, and delivery
- Negotiate water supply and wastewater agreements with local utilities, municipalities, authorities, and service providers
- Support or lead discussions around end-user flow agreements, water rights, service commitments, infrastructure upgrades, and commercial terms
- Navigate permitting requirements related to water withdrawal, discharge, NPDES, pre-treatment, decentralized wastewater systems, and other relevant approvals
- Track water policy, legal rights, regulatory changes, and permitting requirements across active U.S. markets
- Ensure water and wastewater obligations are clearly understood, tracked, and managed throughout development, construction, and operations
- Partner closely with development, engineering, design, construction, legal, commercial, and operations teams to keep water workstreams moving
- Prepare diligence summaries, water narratives, infrastructure assessments, risk reviews, and recommendations for internal leadership
- Support external discussions with utilities, municipalities, regulators, customers, consultants, and infrastructure partners
- Ensure water and wastewater timelines do not become a gating item for project delivery
- Operate with ownership, urgency, and attention to detail in a lean, high-growth environment where the team is scaling quickly
Skills
- Experience owning water and wastewater infrastructure for large-scale industrial, data center, manufacturing, energy, utilities, or infrastructure projects
- Strong understanding of water supply, wastewater capacity, water rights, utility agreements, discharge pathways, permitting, and infrastructure delivery
- Experience supporting projects from early site selection or development diligence through permitting, agreements, construction, or operational readiness
- Track record negotiating or supporting water supply and wastewater agreements with municipalities, utilities, authorities, or service providers
- Experience with NPDES permits, industrial pre-treatment permits, water withdrawal limits, decentralized wastewater systems, or related regulatory processes in the U.S
- Ability to assess water and wastewater risk through a development lens, identifying constraints that could impact site viability, cost, schedule, or long-term operations
- Experience working cross-functionally with development, engineering, design, construction, legal, operations, consultants, utilities, and local stakeholders
- Strong written communication skills, with the ability to produce clear external narratives for customers, regulators, utilities, or public authorities
- Entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to operate independently in a high-growth, fast-moving platform
- Civil engineering, environmental engineering, water resources, utilities, or infrastructure development background
- Data center water, cooling, or wastewater infrastructure experience
- Experience across multi-site or multi-state portfolios
- Exposure to water recycling, zero liquid discharge, water efficiency systems, on-site treatment, or decentralized wastewater solutions
- Existing relationships across water utilities, wastewater authorities, municipalities, infrastructure consultants, data centers, industrial development, or large-load infrastructure markets would be highly valuable
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